Parallels Desktop for Mac computers with Apple silicon M4 chips

Same problem here, Parallels 19.4.2 (54991) refuses to install ARM Windows 11 on M4 :-( Did anyone find a solution other than buying (yet) another licence?

 

I'm running 20.2.2 (55879) on my M4 Pro Mac mini.

 

Parallels 18 just isn't working for me on my M4 MBA, the support pages tell me this is because it's running the newest version of MacOS, but this isn't true, my M2 MBA was and it works absolutely fine. I don't see why it wouldn't work and already had to upgrade to 18 and don't want to be forced to upgrade to 20, is this going to happen constantly? A purchase won't be enough to last for a few years, I might have to opt out of Parallels at this point.

 

I had same problem on MBA with M4 chip.
so I bought v20 and it's working now.

 

I have Parallels 19 running on my Mac book air and it was working fine, but won't install any new OS on my new M4 Max Studio. Once I upgraded to Parallels 20 then everything is now working normally like nothing wrong has happened.
HMMMM, an indirect way to force people to upgrade ? Who ever that came up with this idea in the executive need to be transparent to Parallels Customers, that a constant development of this software cost money and on each version of the software we would like to keep the support at a certain point. Then people would surely understand the company situation. By using this sneaky tactic to force people to upgrade will only generate more resentments instead of more sales by genuine understanding. I am telling you, doing business just for generating money without compassion will not last.

 

I am running Parallels Desktop 20.2.2 on macOS 15.3.2 with a MBA M4. I installed a macOS VM which is also 15.3.2.

I find when scrolling (with the built in trackpad) in a browser on something like YouTube the whole VM freezes, sometimes for a fraction of a second other times for multiple seconds. CPU doesn't seem to be spiking as I have Activity Monitor open both in the VM and host machine.

I also found that USB drives don't seem to work in the guest macOS VM at all. In the USB menu the guest macOS VM doesn't even appear to come up as an option to map the USB drive to.

My questions:
Is it normal for a VM to freeze like this when scrolling?
Is it normal that USB drives can't be seen in the guest macOS VM?

Does anyone know if there are any work arounds to both of these issues? Thanks!

 

I've spent a whole day more or less working with a macOS VM under Parallels Desktop 20.2.2 and my conclusion is that it's pretty unreliable and unstable. It freezes for long periods of time. Sometimes it recovers from the freeze, other times the screen goes blank and you have to shut the macOS VM down completely to get it back up and running. I find that my MBA M4 runs very hot too.

This is not the best advert for Apple's Virtualisation framework, nor Parallels!

How is it best to contact Parallels support?

 

Btw, I noticed that with the recent Parallels updates, this same problem has returned on Parallels: the drivers for my iPhone on my M4 fail to load:

Processor Apple Silicon 3.20 GHz (4 processors)
Installed RAM 6.00 GB
System type 64-bit operating system, ARM-based processor

Edition Windows 11 Home
Version 24H2
Installed on ‎12/‎18/‎2024
OS build 26100.3624
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.66.0