Chrome and Edge extremely slow in Parallels MacOS VM on MacBook Pro M1

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TomH21

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Hello,
I'm running Parallels on a new MacBook Pro M1, and have a MacOS 12 Monterey VM running successfully. The Safari browser works great in the Mac VM, but when I try running the Apple Silicon version of Chrome or Edge, it's so slow as to be unusable. There is a 4-5 second delay even typing letters on the keyboard. I opened a ticket with Parallels but they just told me to make sure I have the latest Parallels Tools installed, which I have done.

Has anyone else run into this problem? I use VMs for browser based software demos and Safari doesn't have the best look and feel for our software. In the meantime I'm using a Windows 11 Insider Preview VM which is working fine, but isn't a long term solution.

Thanks for any insight or recommendations.
 
Yes, having issues with both Chrome browser and Edge browser not rending properly and very sluggish. I'm trying to trouble shoot now but finding Firefox works fine.
 
same issue, wish I found this post earlier. I even tried adding config.ini to bump up vCPU.Count, etc. (it's not exposed in UI like with windows) to no avail.
 
sparkomagic said:
same issue, wish I found this post earlier. I even tried adding config.ini to bump up vCPU.Count, etc. (it's not exposed in UI like with windows) to no avail.
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Yes, very frustrating! I had actually forgotten about it since this post was so long ago. I figured surely it would be resolved by now. Just tried again and it's still unusable. I've been using Windows 11 Insider Preview as a workaround (I just need a stable dedicated platform for performing software demos).

Let me know if you discover any resolutions...
 
Still an issue for me, too. Chrome is often quite laggy in Windows even though:
1) I have assigned 24GB of RAM to Windows 11 and am using half of that;
2) I have a MacBook Pro M3 Max chip and 64 GB of RAM total on the machine.
 
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