This driver is useful for users who own Parallels Desktop for Mac that do not have VT-x hardware support required by the hyperkit driver.
Pre-requisites: Parallels Desktop for Mac
Install the [Parallels docker-machine driver](https://github.com/Parallels/docker-machine-parallels) using [brew](https://brew.sh):
```shell
brew install docker-machine-parallels
```
To use the driver:
```shell
minikube start --vm-driver parallels
```
or, to use parallels as a default driver for minikube:
```shell
minikube config set vm-driver parallels
```
## Troubleshooting
minikube is currently unable to display the error message received back from the VM driver. Users can however reveal the error by passing `--alsologtostderr -v=8` to `minikube start`. For instance:
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@@ -229,3 +254,4 @@ Found binary path at /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver-kvm2
Launching plugin server for driver kvm2
Error starting plugin binary: fork/exec /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver-kvm2: exec format error