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Hi! My intel macbook broke and i was thinking to buy the new M1 Macbook. But i found out Boot Camp doesn't work anymore and most virtual machines don't either. Parallels seems to have an option to do this. But it is not clear wether: 1. you can download the installation windows image only from...

Hello, I have a Macbook Air M1 and a Windows 11 VM (Parallels). I'm using a Windows VM to connect to an external network using PPTP VPN. Can someone describe in details the steps needed to route traffic through a Windows VM? I want to leave my Windows 11 VM running, and access this external...

I tryed gaming on XP, but i got no AGP Texture Acceleration. Can somebody help me? I only got 4 GB of RAM. I compared xp with vista and i see. Vista Got AGP Texture Acceleration and runs way faster than XP. What is the reason?

I have just installed Parallels and am very frustrated. Apparently I accidentally installed it to "run Windows with Parallels Desktop on the Bootcamp Partition" which is not what I wanted. I want to copy Windows from my Boot Camp partition and then run Windows in a virtual machine (and still...

Hi all, Currently having an issue using our new M1 iMac as a POS device with a Windows-based POS software. We're able to get the receipt printer to work by keeping it connected to the Mac and using the redirected printer. However, we're unable to get cash drawer functions to work. I assume we'll...

I'm running Windows 11 through Parallels Desktop 17 on my M1 MacBook Pro. Everything has been running completely fine, apart from when I downloaded PUBG PC from my steam library and launched it, where I face the following error: Failed to initialize BattlEye service (driver load error 1275). I...

Anyone have a solution for the Macbook Pro 16" screen trying to go to sleep/dimming while playing a game on Windows 11 via Steam? the game hangs and I have to restart Windows I have already done the following steps: - Windows 11 re-installed on Pararells - Reinstalled Steam - reinstalled the...

hi, I switched to M1 and I'm trying to play all my Virtual machines here too. I have already installed and configured Windows 11 and Linux Debian (from 10 to 12) ARM. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 13 ARM, but I had some problems with ARM64: any advice? Then I would also like to have the old...

Hey I just updated parallels to version 17.1.1 After updating, I cant boot windows. its stuck on loading forever I'm using MacOS Mojave Whats wrong?

please, help, I wonder how to show a VM window on an extended external monitor. For example: I have a window with a virtual machine Linux Debian on Parallels, I can take it "by hand" with the mouse in the external screen, but in the "Window" menu there are no entries to automatically bring (and...

I want to have an app open in parallels on one monitor while I switch to a mac workspace on the other monitor. Every time I try and switch one monitor from parallels, it'll switch the other from parallels too.

we have applied this article: https://kb.parallels.com/en/124784 Hi Community, We are currently testing Parallels RAS to expand our data center and offer better services. Primarily we currently have the scenario with a customer, webcams which are connected via an IGEL must be usable on the...

Hello, I'm using Windows 11 in Parallels Desktop on Macbook Air with M1 silicon. Works GREAT, thanks! Is it a good idea to set "Compress this drive to save disk space" in Windows? Does it make working in that windows faster? Or does it need more CPU power what makes it all slower? Thanks! Patrick

Hey all. I have a strange problem with windows under parallels. When playing games, the sound of windows sometimes decreases randomly, with the only way to getting it to its proper level being to wait a few seconds then it goes back to normal. The volume indicator does not change at all while...

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After updating to macOS Monterey I got a popup message that said "Existing software on your system loaded a system extension signed by Parallels International GmbH, which will be incompatible with a future version of MacOS. Contact the developer for support.". What does this mean? Why won't...

Hi. I recently did a post that my caps lock wasn't working in one of my games in windows 11, middle click too. I set a middle click shortcut in the parallels desktop menu and it worked perfectly now! So I was wondering, caps lock is probably not configured then. So is there a keyboard shortcuts...

If I have a new M1 mac and create a Windows guest VM, can I give a copy to my colleague who has an old x86 mac and she can also run it?

I'm running Windows 11 ARM Insider Preview on my macOS Big Sur. I'm using Parallels Desktop 17 for Mac on a Mac Big sur version 11.6 with M! processor and 16 GB RAM. Upon installation Windows Updatevstartaed installing Insider Preview Build 22478.rs-prerelease.211008-1414. AFTER this update...

I am using Parallels Desktop 15, with Windows XP fine. I don't need to upgrade my PD15 as it works great. Running MacOS 10.13.6 High Sierra. I'm now looking at installing Windows 98SE as a 2nd guest OS as I need some older programs from that time that worked very stable at that time. PD15...