No way!

A large German bank needed a way to use OS/2 on newer hardware that OS/2 did not support. As virtualization software is an easy way around this, they desired to run OS/2 under a hypervisor. Once it was determined that VMware was not a possibility, they hired some Russian hackers to write a host-based hypervisor that would officially support OS/2. Thus the Parallels, Inc. company and their Parallels Workstation was born.