Aug 15, 2012 Ubuntu 9.10 alpha has been around for some time now, and final version will be released later this year. This tutorial will guide you in installing Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) alpha using Parallels Desktop 4.0 on Mac OS X. Another big release of Ubuntu has gone live since the 26th of April: Ubuntu 18.04. I wanted to try it out and so I went ahead and installed the desktop edition in Parallels Desktop. So far I can only tell you that Parallels does (at the time of writing this article) not support kernel version 4.15, which Ubuntu 18.04 comes with out of the box. A quite stable actively developed alternative to Parallels Desktop for Ubuntu is Virtual Box.We may install a OSE edition from Ubuntu Software Center but to my experience it is better to run the most recent version from the Oracle Repository (see this answer for installation).

Ubuntu Parallels Desktop Installer

I'm not normally a fan of mac software implementations, but recently I saw a copy of Parallels Desktop for mac that I was very much impressed by. I looked into parallel's offerings for Linux (I was initially excited that they developed for *nix) but found that it has essentially the same features as VMware.

Ubuntu 20.04 Parallels Desktop

Ubuntu Parallels Desktop Update

Does anyone know if there is a software solution for linux that offers the level of integration that the current Parallels Deesktop for mac has? I looked into wine for the programs I want to run and was very frustrated. I feel like all the ratings in their application database were fabricated honesty. I've tried wine once every Ubuntu release since 8.10 and have never gotten it to work stably.