Installing and running Windows 10 on Parallels on M2 pro

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AdedejiO

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I currently have parallel on Mac M2 which has windows 11 Pro installed on it. However, I have a driver I need to run that is not compatible with windows 11.
Is it possible for me to downgrade my windows 11pro to windows 10 on my parallel? If yes, any resource to guide me through this process?
 
AdedejiO said:
I currently have parallel on Mac M2 which has windows 11 Pro installed on it. However, I have a driver I need to run that is not compatible with windows 11.
Is it possible for me to downgrade my windows 11pro to windows 10 on my parallel? If yes, any resource to guide me through this process?
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Hello,
Thank you for reaching out to Parallels.
Kindly note that Microsoft no longer provides support for Windows 10 Arm. And as a result, Windows 10 is no longer supported in Parallels Desktop on Mac computers with Apple M-series chips.
Regards,
 
Trishna Oobeyram said:
Hello,
Thank you for reaching out to Parallels.
Kindly note that Microsoft no longer provides support for Windows 10 Arm. And as a result, Windows 10 is no longer supported in Parallels Desktop on Mac computers with Apple M-series chips.
Regards,
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Not good not good. what does it mean it is not supported ? Will it work and MS does not provide any support or will it not work at all?
This is very strange for application that cost lot of money to not offer full functionality on M chips e.g. I need to virtualize Mojave and I cannot do this, despite having Rosetta and we were promised Intel apps can run on M. MacOS is also an app, just more complex so there should be no problem to emulate X86 in VM.
 
SebastianS18 said:
Not good not good. what does it mean it is not supported ? Will it work and MS does not provide any support or will it not work at all?
This is very strange for application that cost lot of money to not offer full functionality on M chips e.g. I need to virtualize Mojave and I cannot do this, despite having Rosetta and we were promised Intel apps can run on M. MacOS is also an app, just more complex so there should be no problem to emulate X86 in VM.
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Microsoft does not support Windows 10 on ARM. They never have and they never will.
Apple's attempt to smooth the transition to ARM from Intel for native Mac applications doesn't extend to an emulation environment such as Parallels.
The good news is that Windows 11 works great on all the M-series chips.
 
You are wrong. Trisha said "no longer" it means it WAS supported. By definition "smooth transition" means also virtualisation because virtualisation was invented for something. I hope clients vote with their pockets against Parallels, but I wait for the day when market force Apple to go back to Intel - it is just better and cheaper in long run to use what everyone else use.
 
SebastianS18 said:
You are wrong. Trisha said "no longer" it means it WAS supported. By definition "smooth transition" means also virtualisation because virtualisation was invented for something. I hope clients vote with their pockets against Parallels, but I wait for the day when market force Apple to go back to Intel - it is just better and cheaper in long run to use what everyone else use.
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You're going to wait a long time - perhaps forever. In five years all the major computer makers will be using CPU chips that run on an ARM architecture. It's simply faster and takes a lot less power.
 
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