macOS Big Sur and Parallels Desktop

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IvanD@Parallels

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Hello everyone! This thread is dedicated to your feedbacks and questions about macOS Big Sur and Parallels Desktop, feel free to share them. Since the beta version of macOS Big Sur has just been released, the compatibility of Parallels Desktop and macOS Big Sur hasn't been fully tested yet by the Parallels Engineering Team. On the other hand, your feedbacks will help us to test and cover as many scenarios as possible. If your feedback includes technical data along with a short description of the situation you encountered, it will make further troubleshooting and resolution more efficient.
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codingbuilder said:
I gave it a try too - to no avail. Only noteworthy issue: the dialog box that popped up after I reran, mntioning that Developer Tools Access has to take over:View attachment 16405
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Finally got things to work after running the Virtual Box Uninstaller (Part of the VB Installer .dmg). Some problems remain: Ubuntu VM is booting, but doesn't load the XServer correctly (problem might be related to an old set of Parallels tools). Win10 boots nicely, no errors so far
 
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Maria@Parallels said:
Hello, could you please collect the tech report once the issue reproduced please?
And share with us the report's ID.
(short issue description will be very helpful, it's a very long thread.)
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Hello and thanks for your answer. The report ID is 347031377.
The issue: if I start the VM "normally", I can't use any input device (mouse, keyboards, etc.), so I'm stuck at the login screen. If I start in safe mode, I can use the VM normally, with the limitations of safe mode. BS beta 4 in the guest VM didn't correct the issue.
 
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I am running Big Sur Beta 4 and, as a temporary measure, I converted my Windows 10 VM to the technical beta of VMWare, which has been working reasonably well.
I have now installed Parallels Desktop V16 and converted the VMWare VM to Parallels, but now when Parallels starts the VM, I get stuck on a screen saying "Preparing Automatic Repair".
Any ideas on how to fix this?
By the way, before I did the conversion, I made sure to uninstall VMWare Tools.
 
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NevilleB1 said:
I am running Big Sur Beta 4 and, as a temporary measure, I converted my Windows 10 VM to the technical beta of VMWare, which has been working reasonably well.
I have now installed Parallels Desktop V16 and converted the VMWare VM to Parallels, but now when Parallels starts the VM, I get stuck on a screen saying "Preparing Automatic Repair".
Any ideas on how to fix this?
By the way, before I did the conversion, I made sure to uninstall VMWare Tools.
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Hi, did you get any error/warning during the cinvertation?
 
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anic297 said:
Hello and thanks for your answer. The report ID is 347031377.
The issue: if I start the VM "normally", I can't use any input device (mouse, keyboards, etc.), so I'm stuck at the login screen. If I start in safe mode, I can use the VM normally, with the limitations of safe mode. BS beta 4 in the guest VM didn't correct the issue.
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Thanks a lot!
Did you reinstall Parallels Tools without any issues?
 
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FWIW, I was gone for a couple of nights and returned to see that 16 was available. So, when I installed it, I got...

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I tried that suggestion from https://kb.parallels.com/en/114695, but that didn't help. Kept getting the same message as above. So, I came here to see what what going on and to see if anyone else was has the same or similar issues. I noted some discussion about the Hypervisor (Actions menu (or Control Center and click on the gear icon) > Configure > CPU & Memory > Advanced Settings). I saw that mine was set to Parallels and the other option was Apple. I merely changed it to Apple and my Parallels finally launched into Windows 10 (2004), which I had finally updated to last week.

Hope this helps.
 
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