How install Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon 26.04 on a Mac M4 chip ?

Hello everyone,
I downloaded the french ARM64 installator for Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon 26.04, but Paralells Desktop pretend that is not compatible with my chip. I downloaded the installator on the official site of Ubuntu France (https://www.ubuntu-fr.org/download/).
Wherre is my error ? Somebody can help me ?
Thanks.

 

Hi MarcBl,

This "not compatible" message from Parallels is a pretty common issue and usually comes down to a mismatch between what the ISO actually is and what Parallels expects. Even if the filename says ARM64, it's worth double checking the file itself, since some regional mirrors (including a few of the French ones) occasionally serve a corrupted download or point to the wrong build when the CDN redirects. I'd run a checksum on the file with something like shasum -a 256 yourfile.iso and compare it against the official SHA256SUMS file on ubuntu.com rather than the France mirror page. If it doesn't match, I'd redownload directly from ubuntu.com and try again from there.

If the checksum checks out, the next thing I'd look at is your Parallels Desktop version. Full native ARM64 Linux guest support requires a fairly recent build, and if you're on an older version it may simply not recognize a newer release like 26.04 as a supported guest OS, even though the ISO itself is perfectly fine. It'll often still let you attempt a manual install, it just won't offer the guided setup path, so updating Parallels first is worth doing before anything else.

Finally, how you're creating the VM matters too. If you're letting Parallels auto-detect the OS from the image file, it sometimes misreads newer ISOs and throws that compatibility warning incorrectly. Instead, try creating the virtual machine as a generic Linux type manually and then pointing it at your ISO from there, rather than relying on the automatic detection.

If none of that resolves it, could you post the exact filename and size of the ISO you downloaded, along with your Parallels Desktop version from Parallels Desktop > About? That would make it much easier to figure out exactly where things are going wrong.