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Hi, I'm running a Catalina guest on a Ventura Intel macbook pro. When installing legacy software on the guest, I received the message that the software requires a metal graphics card, Since the host has a metal3 graphics card, how to I get the guest and Parallels 18.3. to recognize the host card?

I cannot install Parallels 19 on macOS Catalina 10.15.7 ...How do I downgrade to Parallels 18 ?

macOS Catalina 10.15.7 (19H2026) Parallels 18.0.2 Multiple Ventura betas, including the most recent one I can't get a successful boot when launching Ventura as a guest. Once the progress bar begins to advance, it stops with a "your computer had to be restarted because of a problem". This will...

I'm currently running Parallel Desktop 15 on Catalina on my Macbook Pro. Is Parallels desktop 17 upgrade compatible with Catalina? Thanks.

Hi all Just wondering if anyone else is having this confusing issue. I just renewed my subscription, and go an email that someone was trying to log in from a different browser. It's not a different browser, but Parallels has detected my OSX version wrongly as Catalina instead of Monterey. To...

I'm currently running MacOS Mojave/Parallels 13.3.2. For various reasons, I can only upgrade to Catalina, not to more recent versions of the OS. Therefore, for compatibility, it seems I need to upgrade to Parallels 15, since more recent versions of Parallels are not compatible with Catalina. I...

I have a 2020 27" INTEL iMac. It is running MacOS 10.15.7 I am running Parallels 17, latest version. I am trying to set up a VM running MacOS Monterey. The VM loads fine and runs, but there is no internet connection. It always gets a self-assigned IP address. Is this a known issue? It...

I'm a stubborn macOS Mojave user and I don't want to give up my ability to run 32-bit apps. I understand that macOS Catalina uninstalls the 32-bit drivers, that all Mac computers from late 2019 onward came with Catalina by default, and that Parallels for Mac has previously been able to install a...

Hi, I've recently updated my Parallels 15 to 16, and everything's working fine apart from two games, 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul and 18 Wheels of Steel: Extreme Trucker 2. Their start-up lags very much, and their menus are both broken (see the two images below). The thing is...

Hi all, My Visual Studio project used to run normally before I upgrade to Catalina. But now I am getting the attached error. I checked this folder "WebDetector-Site1" from my mac, checking also for hidden files and indeed it is empty. I tried to fix any permission issues by myself - I gave...

I have an iMac Late 2013 and therefore Big Sur is not supported (sadly for me and many others :(). I would like at least to test Big Sur in a Parallels VM but I am unable to install Catalina 10.15.7 so I can upgrade inside the VM. How I can install Cataling properly inside the VM?? See the...

I have been limping along with an old 2009 iMac at work which is unlikely to be updated soon. Increasingly frustrated being stuck at 10.13, I came up with a solution. I downloaded Parallels 16 and managed to install 10.15 on a virtual machine and it runs on my 2009 iMac. It's slow, but not...

We're upgrading from High Sierra to Catalina, and we have QB 2011, Parallels 13 and Windows 7 -- we want to update to Parallels 16, QB 2020 Pro and Windows 10. How do I update Parallels 13 since it won't run under High Sierra or will it? In what order do I do the updates - are there step-by-step...

After upgrading my Mojave system to Catalina, Parallels failed to start. It just got stuck on the "Starting..." dialog. So I uninstalled it completely and reinstalled. Lo and behold, the issue was clearly that the on-Mojave installation didn't have access to some folders (Desktop, Documents...

As you can see in iStat Menus, PD 16 does not use eGPU (tried 2 different games) Also checked the "prefer external GPU" box. I am on Catalina 10.15.6 Any advice would be appreciated.

Big Sur VMs is unusable on Catalina host due to 3Mb graphics card limitation Official statement from technical support: Thank you for contacting Parallels Support. This email is in regards to your graphic card usage in Big Sur Virtual machine. In order to use maximum resources in Big Sur...

Hello! I have just set up my Windows 10 guest OS using Parallels 16 in order to play Minecraft Bedrock Edition from my Catalina. Installing it from the store works like a charm but as soon as the loading screen of the game is over, my game crashes. I have been looking through some old posts and...

Hi, I have spent hours trying various ways to convert and migrate a Win 10 vm over to Virtual Box, unsuccessfully. Parallels version: 15.1.4 (47270) Virtual Box version: 6.1.12 r139181 (Qt5.6.3) Mac OS version: Catalina 10.15.6 I have tried the following: 1. Using VCenter Converter...

Hello everyone. I am using Parallels Desktop 15.1 latest version on Catalina 10.15.6 Suddenly, my Windows 10 VM will not open, and when pressing play button to launch the VM, the VM says "creating snapshot" and will hang there forever. What's strange is that no safeguard was activated and no...

Installed the latest Parallels on new 2020 MacBook Air (16GB RAM), OS 10.15.5. Created a VM and installed High Sierra to run some old 32-bit apps. Installed Photoshop and InDesign CS6. InDesign launches and gets to the 'Select File' dialogue then vaporises. Photoshop runs OK. Anyone got this...