Similar as VM Ware Fusion ( How To Uninstall VMware Fusion on Mac), Parallels Desktop is just another popular virtualization software for macOS. Parallels Desktop virtual machine instances are highly portable between computers. Each Parallels Desktop powered virtual machine thus operates identically to a standalone computer, with virtually all the resources of a physical computer. What is Parallels Desktop? Parallels Desktop for Mac is a hardware emulation virtualization software, applying hypervisor technology that maps the host computer's hardware hard drive directly to the virtual machine's resources.