Running Windows via Parallels for multiple users is a dumpster fire

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by sfsdfd, Jun 24, 2026 at 3:14 PM.

  1. sfsdfd

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    I bought my two kids a MacBook Pro. They both want to play Minecraft (Bedrock) with their friends, so they have to run it in Windows.

    I installed Parallels, bought a Windows 11 license and installed it, and installed Minecraft. All well and good while running it through my account.

    Then I tried to run it through my kids' accounts, and the nightmares began.

    Currently, Windows has only one account. This is a problem for Minecraft because if Kid #1 is signed into Minecraft using Kid #1's account, and Kid #2 wants to use this machine to play Minecraft, then *at best* when Kid #2 logs into Parallels, it will serve him Minecraft using Kid #1's account. In reality, I can't even get that far, because I can't access the VM from either kid's account after creating it in my account, presumably because of a permissions issue.

    It appears that the most reasonable solution to this problem is to run *three separate instances of Windows hosted in three separate VMs*, one for each account. It's a grotesque waste of storage space, but I don't think that there is a more efficient option.
     

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