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Docs: Specify exact Parallels product names

Katrin Leinweber requested to merge update-parallels-requirement-docs into main

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Clarifies that "Pro or Business" is needed, not just the Desktop version.

Backstory: For !2957 (closed) I set up my local env and noticed the following after installing a free trial of Parallels Desktop:

$ make development_setup
test -d tmp/gitlab-test || git clone https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/tests/gitlab-test.git tmp/gitlab-test
if prlctl --version ; then /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C tests/ubuntu parallels ; fi
prlctl version 16.5.0 (49183)
vagrant up --provider=parallels --provision parallels
The provider 'parallels' that was requested to back the machine
'parallels' is reporting that it isn't usable on this system. The
reason is shown below:

Vagrant has detected that you have an edition of Parallels Desktop for Mac
installed that is not supported. Vagrant Parallels provider is compatible
only with Pro and Business editions of Parallels Desktop. Other editions
do not have command line functionality and can not be used with Vagrant.

Please upgrade your installation: https://parallels.com/desktop
make[1]: *** [parallels] Error 1
make: *** [development_setup] Error 2

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