M5 Macbook Air, Windows 11 ARM: Coherence won't work nor bridged networking

Brand mew machine as of March 13th. Fresh install of everything, current Parallels, fresh install of Windows 11 ARM via Parallels doing evrything automatically. Had to delete my first VM and redo it because networking didn't work at all. Second time around netowrking works but only Shared Networking. If i switch to bridged, default adapter (or pick WiFi for example) it never gives Windows an IP address. Shared doesn't always work for me becasue I need my VM on the same subnet as my Mac.

Also, Coherence isn't even an option for some reason. No blue dot in the upper left, and no View / Coherence. Parallels Tools are freshly installed. Coherence didn't work on my first VM either. Coworker got the exact same machine as I did, same day, same install, he has neither of these issues.
Not sure how to fix either of these issues.

 

Update, my Coherence issue was due to the App Store version of Parallels not supporting this feature, whereas the download from the website does. I replaced my software version and coherence is now enabled. Still have the networking issue however.

 

M5 MacBook Air here as well, and can't get Bridged Networking to work either, there's a handful of other threads popping up about this as well, so something will probably need to be fixed to resolve this for us.

 

New MacBook Pro M5 Max, and I also have the same issue with the networking bridge mode. Works just fine on my Mac Studio M3 Ultra.

 

Same here, MacBook Pro Apple M1 Max, Parallels Desktop 20, wifi bridged mode stopped working months ago. Only shared network mode works.
There's no option for port forwarding in my version.

 

I also have the same problem on my new Macbook PRO with M5 PRO chip, I can't bridge the network connection, this causes me a big problem, I can't access the network with an application under Windows 11, when will the problem be solved?

 

Throwing my hat in the ring, W11, Mac m4 pro, no bridge networks work, shared is good, can't use my external dongle with a static or dhcp ip address, hope it's fixed soon.

Thanks Parallels

 

I have the same problem with a Macbook Pro M3 Pro and multiple VMs of Windows 11, if you really need the bridge mode like me you can make it work temporarily by setting bridge mode to wifi for example, even if Windows never gets a valid IP with DHCP, then just assign manually a valid IP address for that network and it should show internet connection and work like it did before the broken update. Keep in mind the issues that a manuall IP can bring if moving between different networks, but besides that its a good workaround for now.

 

The strange thing is that on a Mac Studio with an M4 Pro chip everything works perfectly, as I wrote on the new Macbook Pro M5 PRO there is no way to make it work, as soon as I set the bridge mode even by setting the WiFi card or even the Ethernet network adapter I receive the same error and on the virtual machine side I see the Ethernet interface turned off, I also tried to remove the interface from the settings and put it back but always the same problem, Parallels support wrote to me that they are investigating, but it is really a problem for me this I can not work on some applications that require access to the network in bridge.

 

I think it's a problem with macOS 26.4. I didn't have this problem before updating from macOS 26.3 to macOS 26.4.1.

 

I just installed the latest parallels 26.3.1 update (57396) hoping that the BUG had been resolved but it still doesn't work

 

After downgrading to macOS 26.3 bridge networking is working again. So it's definitely a compatibility issue with macOS 26.4.

 

Have a bandaid fix:
Set Network to Manual and assign an available IP on the same subnet as your host. Set default GW and DNS as same and it lit up for me.
Example as my router is 10.0.0.1
Host:
10.0.0.99
/24
10.0.0.1

DNS also 10.0.01

Hope that helps until DHCP problem is fixed

 

I have an M4 and MacOS 26.4.1. I have this same problem on both a Kali Linux VM and a Windows 11 VM: everything is fine when I use "Shared Network", but when I try to use Bridged Network / Default Adapter I see this:

1. I do NOT get an IP4 address (this causes numerous problems)
2. I DO get an IP6 address, and anything compatible with IP6 seems to work fine

So the problem as experienced by me seems to be related to the handling of IP4.

 

I have the same problem on Macbook Pro M5Pro 26.4.1. Bridged Network do not work

 

Just updated Parallels Desktop to version 26.3.2 (57398) on MacOS 26.4.1 but the bridge interface still doesn't work. Is it possible that Parallels can't solve this problem?

 

Just updated Parallels Desktop to version 26.3.2 (57398) on MacOS 26.4.1 but the bridge interface still doesn't work. Is it possible that Parallels can't solve this problem?

 

Hello together,
same problem here, with a M5 Pro MBP 16". took it out of the box and had to make the day 1 patch to macOS 26.4.1.
bridged network never worked on this machine for me.
But, as this most likely is a macOS issue, has someone tried the bump to the 26.5 beta to maybe find out if the problem persists with that version?

On the weekend i'll try out the fix from RaymondD6 and will report, if I will be succsessfull or not.