Migrate XP VM Intel to Apple Silicon?

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop on a Mac with Apple silicon' started by newbie21, Dec 4, 2023.

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  1. newbie21

    newbie21 Junior Member

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    I have a XP vm running on a 2012 Intel Mac using Parallels.

    I have a new M2 MBP running Parallels 18.
    I also have Microsoft Windows / ARM running on the M2 Mac.

    I need to get the XP VM working on the M2 Mac because I have 2 apps that I use regularly that are essential to my work.

    What steps do I need to follow to get the XP VM running on the M2 Mac?


    Thanks for all replies.
     
    newbie21, Dec 4, 2023
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  2. joevt

    joevt Forum Maven

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    https://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/resources/ says XP is not a supported guest OS for Parallels.

    This one says a VM created on Intel Mac cannot be used on Apple Silicon Mac.
    https://kb.parallels.com/125343#:~:text=a virtual machine created on,KB 125344 for more details.

    Maybe Windows emulation in macOS or in one of the supported guest Ones will work?

    For macOS, there's UTM which is a front end for Qemu.
    https://mac.getutm.app/
    They have Windows XP listed in the gallery. I haven't tried it and I don't have an Apple Silicon Mac.
    https://mac.getutm.app/gallery/
    I don't know what disk image formats it support. There's a command to convert the Parallels virtual hard disk of your VM into different formats. The simplest format would be a read/write Apple disk image. I think something like this (but make a backup first):
    prl_disk_tool convert --hdd <disk_name> --plain
     
    joevt, Dec 4, 2023
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