I’m trying to import an existing Windows 11 ARM VM from VMware Fusion into Parallels Desktop on an Apple Silicon Mac. Opening the VMware VM in Parallels starts “Preparing to Convert” and then immediately shows “Operation Failed — Failed to execute the operation.” The VM was able to boot in VMware before the import attempt.
The VM and the Parallels output are on an external volume. The first conversion attempt logged:
Error: VMDK '<VM>/Virtual Disk-000001.vmdk' does not contain parentCID key, or values size is wrong or format is incorrect!
Hole size is not supported by FS type 22
I consolidated the VMware snapshot/disk files, but Parallels still fails. The later log contains:
Unable to setupOwner to file <converted VM>.pvm/vm.lock. Error PRL_ERR_CANT_CHANGE_OWNER_OF_FILE
Changing ownership of the VM files with chown did not help. I haven’t confirmed whether the vm.lock message is the cause of the failure.
Has anyone successfully converted a VMware Fusion Windows 11 ARM VM with this error? Is the vm.lock message a blocker or a secondary warning?
The VM and the Parallels output are on an external volume. The first conversion attempt logged:
Error: VMDK '<VM>/Virtual Disk-000001.vmdk' does not contain parentCID key, or values size is wrong or format is incorrect!
Hole size is not supported by FS type 22
I consolidated the VMware snapshot/disk files, but Parallels still fails. The later log contains:
Unable to setupOwner to file <converted VM>.pvm/vm.lock. Error PRL_ERR_CANT_CHANGE_OWNER_OF_FILE
Changing ownership of the VM files with chown did not help. I haven’t confirmed whether the vm.lock message is the cause of the failure.
Has anyone successfully converted a VMware Fusion Windows 11 ARM VM with this error? Is the vm.lock message a blocker or a secondary warning?