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I'm once again thinking of moving my Parallels license from my old x86 MacBook Pro to my current Apple Silicon based one. The two things that have prevented it in the past is my need to test whether our application installs/runs in x86-based OSs (Ubuntu, Fedora, Windows 10/11 to be specific)...

I have some software that cannot run on ARM Windows and need to install X86_64 bit system on the MACBOOK of the M chip. This feature has been available since version 20.2 last month, but it is not complete and slow. Is there any further optimization now? When is the expected release date for the...

I want to try x86 emulation with LinuxCNC, and if you're reading this you probably already know that the VM needed to test this had to have been originally created on an x86 machine. I switched over to Apple Silicon long ago, and I don't have an Intel Mac anymore to try it out. Would you...

parallels desktop Is there any plan to support installing Linux x86 system on Apple M chip

I have seen some posts claiming that only ARM-based versions of Windows will run in Parallels on a Mac using the M1 processor. My understanding was that the new M1 Macs included an emulator called Rosetta 2 which would allow an M1 mac to execute programs developed for Intel processors. If...

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?

Hi All, I'm still on Intel Macs and PD15. I'm really worried about upgrading my hardware to an M1 because I have tons of x86 VMs that I rely on (listed below). I am wondering if this would work on an M1 Mac: Create a Big Sur VM with PD16. Ensure Rosetta2 is installed within the Big Sur VM...

Guys, I installed the windows 20231 build, but its not running my games, so I tried to find the build 21277 but I don't found the download link, anyone knows where I can find it?

I love Parallels. I favor it to any competing software for Desktop productivity (more than VirtualBox, VMware, KVM). But this wired article (which was similarly rumored back in 2014) which explains Apple's plans to switch Desktops to ARM A8 chips by 2020 has some merit...