Parallels Workstation Extreme

Short description: Workstation

Parallels Workstation ExtremeDeveloper(s)| Parallels, Inc.

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Stable release|

4.0 / March 30, 2009

Operating system| Microsoft Windows, Linux
Platform| x86-compatible
Type| Virtual machine
License| Commercial Proprietary
Website| Parallels Workstation

Parallels Workstation Extreme is the first workstation virtualization product that lets users virtualize graphics-intensive software programs such as geophysical simulation, financial analysis, and digital content creation programs commonly used by engineers and digital animators in virtual machines on Windows and Linux hosts.[1][2]

To let users virtualize these resource-intensive programs, Parallels partnered with Intel and Nvidia and incorporated their technologies into Parallels Workstation Extreme.[3]

## Contents

* 1 Overview
* 1.1 Features
* 1.2 System Requirements
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Overview

Like other virtualization software, Parallels Workstation Extreme uses a hypervisor to grant its virtual machines’ direct access to the host computer's hardware. However, instead of handling the processes within the virtual machine as other virtualization products do to render 3D graphics, Parallels Workstation Extreme uses Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O to direct the multimedia directly back to the host's graphics cards[4] while Nvidia's SLI Multi-OS allows the host machine and the virtual machine to each have their dedicated GPU.[5] Each graphic application running in a virtual machine requires its own dedicated Nvidia Quadro FX 3800, 4800, or 5800 graphics card, which are the only graphics cards currently supported by the product.[6]

To provide the hardware environment to support this mix of virtualization and graphics technologies, Hewlett-Packard partnered with Parallels and Nvidia to develop the HP Z800, a high-end PC that include Nvidia's Quadro FX GPUs and Intel's VT-d and Xeon processor.[7]

### Features

Parallels Workstation Extreme includes support for up to 16 CPU cores, 64 GB of RAM for guest OSs, 16 virtual network adapters per virtual machine and virtual drive sizes up to 2 TB. Users can use multiple monitors, display a different guest operating system in each screen and also move the mouse back and forth between monitors and OSs. Parallels Workstation Extreme load balances CPU resources as users move between the different OSs on the workstation.

The product also supports CLI, PXEboot and USB 2.0 devices. Users can utilize virtual machine templates, multiple snapshot capabilities and software development kits. Also included is Parallels Compressor, designed to compress the size of a virtual hard disk, and Parallels Image Tool, designed to increase or decrease the size of a virtual hard disk.

### System Requirements

Host requirements include:

* 64-bit Windows Vista, 64-bit Windows XP SP3 or 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 host operating system
* 1 or 2 Intel Xeon Processors 5500 series
* 8 GB RAM
* 10 GB disk space per virtual machine
* Supported NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics cards

Supported guest operating systems include 64-bit Windows Vista, 64-bit Windows XP SP3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 and 5.3 and Fedora 10\.

## See also

* Platform virtualization
* Graphics card
* Hypervisor
* Virtual machine
* Virtual disk image

## References

1. ↑ Reuters
2. ↑ "Parallels introduces virtualisation for 3D workstations - vnunet.com". http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2239438/parallels-introduces.
3. ↑ "Parallels boosts virtualisation graphics". 30 March 2009. http://www.itpro.co.uk/610368/parallels-boosts-virtualisation-graphics.
4. ↑ "Parallels, Nvidia enable CAD workstation virtualization - Computerworld". http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9130723&intsrc=news_ts_head.
5. ↑ "Nvidia unveils new Quadro graphics cards". 30 March 2009. http://www.techspot.com/news/34093-Nvidia-unveils-new-Quadro-graphics-cards.html.
6. ↑ "Parallels, Nvidia enable CAD workstation virtualization". http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/033009-parallels-nvidia-enable-cad-workstation.html.
7. ↑ "Parallels introduces Workstation Extreme". 30 March 2009. http://www.techspot.com/news/34091-Parallels-introduces-Workstation-Extreme.html.

## External links

* Official webpage

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Virtualization software

Comparison of platform virtualization software

Hardware
virtualization
(hypervisors)|

| Native|

* Adeos
* CP/CMS
* Hyper-V
* KVM
* Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
* LDoms / Oracle VM Server for SPARC
* Logical Partition (LPAR)
* LynxSecure
* PikeOS
* Proxmox VE
* SIMMON
* VMware ESXi
* VMware vSphere
* vCloud
* VMware Infrastructure
* Xen
* Oracle VM Server for x86
* XenServer
* XtratuM
* z/VM

|

Hosted|

| Specialized|

* Basilisk II
* bhyve
* Bochs
* Cooperative Linux
* DOSBox
* DOSEMU
* PCem
* PikeOS
* SheepShaver
* SIMH
* Windows on Windows
* Virtual DOS machine
* Win4Lin

|

Independent|

* Microsoft Virtual Server
* Parallels Workstation
* Parallels Desktop for Mac
* Parallels Server for Mac
* PearPC
* QEMU
* VirtualBox
* Virtual Iron
* VMware Fusion
* VMware Player
* VMware Server
* VMware Workstation
* Windows Virtual PC

Tools|

* Ganeti
* oVirt
* System Center Virtual Machine Manager
* Virtual Machine Manager

OS-level
virtualization|

| Full stack|

* Container Linux
* Docker
* iCore Virtual Accounts
* Linux-VServer
* Turbo
* Virtuozzo

|

Backends|

* chroot
* cgroups
* FreeBSD jail
* Linux namespaces
* lmctfy
* LXC
* OpenVZ
* seccomp
* vkernel
* Solaris Containers
* Workload Partitions

Orchestration|

* Amazon ECS
* Kubernetes
* OpenShift

Desktop
virtualization|

* Citrix XenApp
* Citrix XenDesktop
* Remote Desktop Services
* VMware Horizon View
* Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop

Application
virtualization|

* Ceedo
* Citrix XenApp
* Dalvik
* InstallFree
* Microsoft App-V
* Remote Desktop Services
* Symantec Workspace Virtualization
* Turbo
* VMware ThinApp
* ZeroVM

Network
virtualization|

* Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE)
* NVGRE
* Open vSwitch
* Virtual security switch
* Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)

See also: List of emulators

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