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Problem Description On Parallels Desktop 26.1.1 (build 57288) running on Apple M4 Pro, ARM64 Linux guests incorrectly advertise SVE2support through AT_HWCAP2, even though the hardware does not implement SVE or SVE2 instructions. This causes applications using Vectorscan/Hyperscan or other...

Running Ubuntu 24.04 in parallels desktop 20 (offy image). The thing continuously keep messing up with the mouse cursor, after a short while there are patches (squares) at the bottom -sometimes left, sometimes right- where the mouse stops working, left, right button or scrollwheel. Then it also...

Hi, I installed a debian, but the microphone is not recognized. What should I do ? Thx !

What's the situation currently with Wayland support for Parallels Tools? I'm running Parallels Desktop 20.4 on macOS 15.5 with several Linux guests, but when those VMs log into the default Wayland session, all Parallels-specific integrations disappear. The most troubling is that there's no...

Hello. Is there a way to prevent the VM from creating files and folders that are owned by root? I'm not logged in as root in the MacOS side when I start my Linux VM. Yes, I often run programs as root within the Linux OS but should that really matter? When these programs, such as Transmission...

- Parallels 20.3.0 - Ubuntu 25.04 - Mac M1 Pro with Sequoia 15.4.1 Shared folder from macOS inside ubuntu VM not working at all. Any ideas? Thanks!

I don't know why, but hashcat benchmark is >60% faster native using OpenCL than in the Linux VM using OpenCL. Does anyone know why or can offer suggestions on how to close this gap?

I've posted the bug here: https://forum.parallels.com/threads/dsan-warnings-suggest-invalid-page-accesses-in-prl_tg-toolgate-guest-linux-prl_tg-prltg_call-c.364524/#post-939436. It happened after upgrading my Ubuntu from 24.04 to 25.04. Ubuntu kernel version is `6.14.0-16-generic`.

Is it possible to have a linux guest with a network interface that supports multiple queues for RX and TX?

I've just switched from VMware Fusion to Parallels and not able to SSH into Rocky Linux running on the latest version of Parallels. I get the following error message: ssh: connect to host <IP_ADDRESS> port 22: No route to host which is weird as I never had that problem with Fusion. I got the...

Hello. I'm running a few VMs to test some software between them. I'm trying to launch a server page on Firefox to test if it started up correctly, but Firefox does nothing when launched. I can type into the address bar, and I can hit the tab closing button to clear the window, but none of the...

I have parallels 20.2.2 running on MacOS 15.4 and I am not seeing options for installing Linux VMs with Rosetta. I don't see Ubuntu Linux with Rosetta in the Create New page and I don't see Rosetta as an option on the CPU & Memory configuration page for the Ubuntu 24.04 ARM64 VM I installed. I...

On various Linux distributions (Debian 12.6, Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40) when dragging to the edge of the screen, a black window appears and covers the entire screen in the guest. This behavior is really annoying and occurs when doing things like, for example, selecting some text that happens to be...

Hi, I posted in the M4 thread but hoping to get some response in a separate thread... Installing Debian Stable, Debian Testing, and Kali Linux using the ARM64 isos always seems to segfault when the installer gets to installing the kernel. I've tried with weekly and daily builds of the above...

Hi, I'm trying to install Kali and/or Ubuntu (Both ARM64 variants) via Parallels 2.0 on an M4 MBP and I cannot for the life of me get them to install. If I use the pre-built images, it works fine; However, if I try to install manually via ISO, it fails on both OSs with random errors each time...

Hello, I am trying to run Linux Mint 22 on my MacBook Pro 13" M2 through Parallels Desktop. When I choose the .iso file for the OS I get the following message: "The specified image cannot be used because your Mac is equipped with the Apple M series chip that doesn't support Intel-based operating...

Since upgrading to Parallels 20 I can no longer suspend and resume my Debian VM successfully. It appears to work as normal, however when I resume, the VM has a wildly inaccurate date, which causes all sorts of things to fail. This happens every time that I suspend in 20, but never happened...

See also Shared Folders not showing up I just upgraded to Parallels 20.0.1 on my Intel mac (macOS 14.7) and now my shared folders aren't working on my macOS VMs either. Windows VMs: Shared folders working normally. Steps I took: * On the host mac: I tried removing then re-adding "Documents...

Hello, I'm encountering an issue after upgrading to Parallels 20. I used to run an MSSQL docker container on an Ubuntu VM with Rosetta enabled in Parallels 19 without problems. However, after the upgrade, I get the following message when trying to start the container: "Rosetta is only intended...

I'm using Parallels Desktop 19.4.1 and 20.0, freshly download the Ubuntu image with Rosetta enabled, but I'm getting error messages when I try to run a AMD64 docker image. parallels@ubuntu-linux-2404:~$ sudo docker run -it centos:7 [sudo] password for parallels: WARNING: The requested image's...