This line tries to create a VM using boot2docker distribution. This type of distribution is not available anymore at the plctl v19+: https://github.com/Parallels/docker-machine-parallels/blob/5a11c2bae45ade04389974e0fb39b389855ff637/parallels_darwin.go#L114 I came here from the minikube issue: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/18196 Minikube uses this driver to work with parallels.