Install Parallels Desktop VMs for Claude Desktop
Claude Desktop reads mcpServers from claude_desktop_config.json. Restart the app after saving.
- Open ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS, %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json on Windows, or ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on Linux.
- Paste the JSON config below.
- Replace placeholder secrets, then restart the client if it does not reload on its own.
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"parallels-pdfm-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"https://github.com/Parallels/pdfm-mcp/releases/download/v0.1.4/pdfm-mcp-0.1.4.mcpb"
],
"env": {
"PDFM_MCP_VM_ID": "",
"PDFM_MCP_LOG_LEVEL": ""
}
}
}
}