Is there a way to automate updating Parallels?

[tomatoandcake]

Hi all,

I'd like to automate checking for updates and running those updates in a script.
Is there a way to do this? I don't have the Mac App Store version of Parallels, I have the version from the website.
I found something called mas on GitHub: https://github.com/mas-cli/mas which can auto-install app store purchases in a script - but I don't have the app-store version.

The note on the app store version - Parallels seems to not suggest you move to it from the normal version:

I'm essentially running a headless macOS server, and once a day in the middle of the night I have

softwareupdate -i -a -R

run in order to make sure the host system is always up-to-date.
Can I add anything to this to make sure Parallels also installs any updates it finds?

 

[Trishna Oobeyram]

Hi all,

I'd like to automate checking for updates and running those updates in a script.
Is there a way to do this? I don't have the Mac App Store version of Parallels, I have the version from the website.
I found something called mas on GitHub: https://github.com/mas-cli/mas which can auto-install app store purchases in a script - but I don't have the app-store version.

The note on the app store version - Parallels seems to not suggest you move to it from the normal version:

I'm essentially running a headless macOS server, and once a day in the middle of the night I have

softwareupdate -i -a -R

run in order to make sure the host system is always up-to-date.
Can I add anything to this to make sure Parallels also installs any updates it finds?

Hello @tomatoandcake
Thank you for reaching out to Parallels.
Normally, you can follow the steps to make sure Parallels Desktop check of updates automatically, once per day.
1. Right-click on Parallels Desktop icon and go to Preferences.
2. In the General Tab, switch the "Check for updates" to "Once a day" and tick "Download updates automatically".

Regards,

 

[tomatoandcake]

Hi @Trishna Oobeyram,
Thanks for the reply. I have set that up already - but I'm looking for a way to install any updates automatically on a schedule.

While downloading the updates can be helpful, my goal is to run my server fully headless, and therefore I'd like to avoid having to manually remote into it and manually clicking "install" on the updates when they're made available.