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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...

Hi guys, For some reason I can't assign more than 2GB of graphics memory to a macOS VM. It's built solely to play the 32-bit games I've bought over the years that I can't play anymore due to the 64-bit restriction, so graphics power is really important. My iMac is running 11.2 and the VM is...

I have been trying for about a week now to get my MacOS Guest VM working with Parallels Desktop and have finally narrowed down the issue but do not know how to resolve it. Symptoms: When opening any app that uses the camera like Zoom or Photo Booth, the Parallels Desktop app will crash (on the...

Guys, I installed the windows 20231 build, but its not running my games, so I tried to find the build 21277 but I don't found the download link, anyone knows where I can find it?

Hi everyone, When in "full" screen mode, in MacOS Big Sur the space where the dock is normally (I have the dock hidden), seems to "disappear", so menus, status bars, etc... when in full screen (even in coherence mode) disappear. This happens with outlook, Microsoft edge, and other office...

Hi there! I'm trying to run a VM in Vmware inside a guest macOS installed with Parallels. VM Ware is prompting with an error every time I try to run it, saying that this host does not support Intel VT-x. There's a pretty easy solution if the guest system is a Windows OS, however, the option...

How to enable Bluetooth for Windows Guest OS? MacBook Pro 2019 with Bluetooth has no mention of Bluetooth shown in Parallels Control Center Options, so no Bluetooth in Windows Guest OS. "Hardware > USB" is shown but "Hardware > USB & Bluetooth" is NOT SHOWN. Also there is no Bluetooth icon or...

I installed Big Sur beta 4 on Parallels. However I can't shutdown the virtual machine. When I select shutdown from the Actions menu, the selection box does not always appear and even when it does, nothing happens when I click on the Shutdown button. Any advise is helpful as I can't make changes...

What I'm trying to accomplish: Have a template of an Ubuntu server set up that I can clone, mostly for the purposes of building nodes for a small K8S cluster. I have Parallels Desktop for macOS Version 15.1.4 (47270) What I did: 1. Built the template server, complete with patches, docker, etc...

Hello, Since I installed parallels on my 16 inch MBP I have ran into panic errors after my Mac went to sleep. The panic errors states that my MacBook has restarted because of a problem. At first I did not know what caused the issue so I performed the usual MacBook troubleshoot; nvram, SMC, safe...

Since a recent update the opengl stack seems not to be available anymore in x11. all opengl calls fail with: CGLChoosePixelFormat error: invalid pixel format zsh: abort I am running macOS 10.15.4 (including the supplemental update). The guest OS is macOS 10.15.4 (including the supplemental...