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Greetings, I just purchased Parallels Desktop Pro. I'm planning on turning my upcoming Mac Studio into a server where it will be running Ubuntu Server for ARM and some other stuff and from what I could gather Parallels Desktop was much better when compared to VMware Fusion on Apple Silicon. To...

Hey dear Parallels users, a newbie here. I don't have experience with virtualization so my question might be totally clueless. Sorry in advance! I'm trying to make 4 different sessions, systems, clones, whatever you call it, at the same time. Basically, I need to set up 3 macOS virtual machines...

I have a 16 inch MacBook Pro with a 4K display but the MacOS parallels virtual machine only runs at HD

Legacy System Extension: Existing software on your system loaded a system extension signed by "Parallels International GmbH" which will be incompatible with a future version of macOS. Contact the developer for support. Is there anything I can do to keep my Parallels functioning and up-to-date...

I've had this problem repeatedly with a large Big Sur VM, running under Parallels Desktop 17.1.0; after a crash on the base Big Sur machine, the VM then gets halfway through the boot process and fails, returning to the start-button screen. Each time I've had to try going back to an old...

I have a MacBook Pro and I'm running Big Sur. I'd like to install either Yosemite or Sierra as a virtual machine. I downloaded the .dmg files but when I try to install them it says "unable to detect operating system." Customer support told me that I need to use an .app file, not a .dmg file. I...

Hello, I'm running Parallels on a new MacBook Pro M1, and have a MacOS 12 Monterey VM running successfully. The Safari browser works great in the Mac VM, but when I try running the Apple Silicon version of Chrome or Edge, it's so slow as to be unusable. There is a 4-5 second delay even typing...

Unlike the other VMs, macOS Monterey VMs do not show the regular configuration options for modifying disks, networking, USB etc. Is there any way to get around this? Either to attach a USB disk or to expand the disk0.img file?

Hi guys Following is my host OS configuration - Big sur 11.6.1, iMac (2014), 32 gb 1600 Mhz DDR3 Parallels eval v17.1.0 (51516) I have 2 Big Sur guest instances with the following parallels settings - CPU 2 processors, 10 GB RAM, Apple hypervisor with adaptive hypervisor checked No boot...

Command+tab is not being forwarded to my guest OS. Is it not implemented or is it bug? Even when I have the guest macOS in focus, when I do command+tab, it's still my host machine getting the signal. I have tried using the preference to "Always" send macOS system shortcuts in the "macOS System...

After updating to macOS Monterey I got a popup message that said "Existing software on your system loaded a system extension signed by Parallels International GmbH, which will be incompatible with a future version of MacOS. Contact the developer for support.". What does this mean? Why won't...

If I have a new M1 mac and create a Windows guest VM, can I give a copy to my colleague who has an old x86 mac and she can also run it?

I'm running Windows 11 ARM Insider Preview on my macOS Big Sur. I'm using Parallels Desktop 17 for Mac on a Mac Big sur version 11.6 with M! processor and 16 GB RAM. Upon installation Windows Updatevstartaed installing Insider Preview Build 22478.rs-prerelease.211008-1414. AFTER this update...

I m using macos Monterey, When installing the macos in PD, the process just stuck at following screen shot. No matter what i do, uninstalling PD and reinstalling, no help. Please help me , thanks

I'm running a 2011 iMac with SSD, and 16Gb memory on High Sierra 10.13.6 I am using Parallels Desktop Version 15.1.2 (47123) as this was the last version to support Windows XP. PD 16 dropped all support for XP, and I am very happy with version 15.1 and XP. I use XP as using older legacy...

Hello! I can't seem to find answers anywhere online, and am hoping that I can ask the community for help. I'm trying to Virtualize an M1 MacBook's OS on my Intel MacBook. We need to test certain things on M1 Macs, and don't want to spend time and money with the real physical device. (re-imaging...

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Hi, I need nested virtualization to be enabled for a macOS Big Sur virtual machine running under macOS Big Sur. I am a developer and I require the usage of Docker for Mac in my working environment, I use the Pro Edition. There was a suggestion from @rkulikov to use a Boot Flags argument in the...

I have an old laptop that I backed up the entire contents of the disk and saved as a .sparsebundle. I did this using Target Disk mode where I connected the old Macbook to the new Macbook and then used SuperDuper to create the sparsebundle. I can easily mount that sparsebundle and confirm that...

Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition version 16.1.3 Host OS: MacOS Big Sur version 11.2.1 Guest OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Apache 2.4.18 PHP 7.3.24 I'm using Ubuntu to run an Apache server to serve PHP files. When Apache serves the files/source code that's local on Ubuntu, they show up in my...