Right now, Citavi runs only on Windows. However, you have a few different options if you want to use Citavi on your Mac.

There are three third-party solutions (Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion, and Oracle VirtualBox) which let you run a real copy of Windows on your Mac. These so-called virtual machines run Windows at the same time as Mac OS X, so you don't have to reboot.

Important: Parallels Desktop 5 and earlier are not supported. Use Parallels Desktop 6 or later.

To begin, click the links in the text for each virtual machine vendor's instructions and downloads. The other things you need to check:

•You must be running a Mac with an Intel processor. Older Macs with PowerPC processors cannot run these virtual machines. (There is an obsolete emulator, Virtual PC, which allows Windows to on some PowerPC Macs, but it is discontinued and runs slowly.)

•You must have enough free hard disk space on your Mac to hold the contents of the Windows virtual  machine.

•Running Windows at the same time takes a lot of memory (RAM), so we recommend having plenty of RAM in the computer, 2GB minimum, 4GB recommended for regular use. If you have too little RAM, it will still work, but everything will run slower when Windows is running.

To see how to set up Parallels on your Mac and optimize it for Citavi, see Parallels Step by Step.

For more information, see our FAQ entry about running Citavi on a Mac.

URL for this page: http://manual.citavi.com/en/?installing_on_mac.htm (Last updated: 12.07.2012 12:04:42)
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