prl_convert is missing for arm64 on a recent install under Apple ARM64

[Patrick Tracanelli]

Hey!!

I am trying to convert a VM and the wizard fails to do so, so I went to command line just to find out prl_convert is missing for my architecture (M2, actually no arm version).

See:

Calling the command returns the weird illegal instruction:

(22:54:eksffa)~% /Applications/Parallels\ Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/prl_convert
Illegal instruction

(22:58:eksffa)~% /Applications/Parallels\ Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/prl_convert FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64.vmdk
Illegal instruction

But I can see its not that weired, its just not for ARM64

(22:58:eksffa)~% file "/Applications/Parallels Desktop.app/Contents//MacOS/prl_convert"
/Applications/Parallels Desktop.app/Contents//MacOS/prl_convert: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

Its for Intel only :-(

Different from the main app:

(22:58:eksffa)~% file "/Applications/Parallels Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/Parallels VM.app/Contents/MacOS/prl_vm_app"
/Applications/Parallels Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/Parallels VM.app/Contents/MacOS/prl_vm_app: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64]
/Applications/Parallels Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/Parallels VM.app/Contents/MacOS/prl_vm_app (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/Applications/Parallels Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/Parallels VM.app/Contents/MacOS/prl_vm_app (for architecture arm64): Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

So its a no-go. No wonder the wizard failed, it wont include the arm arch version.

Any workaround or solution is known to this, so far?

Or should I give up parallels to run FreeBSD and keep using QEMU before you completely port it to M2?

Thank you.

 

[MarshallN1]

I hoe this is not too ate for you, but I just had the same issue. What I realized was that I was running the Mac App Store version of Parallels rather than the ProversionI subscribe to. Only the Pro version seems to have the ability to run prl_convert. Hope this helps.