I tried to install a Mac OS 15.0 guest (release, not beta) on a Mac OS 14.6.1 host (Apple M2 Max, Parallels Desktop Pro 20.0.1), following these instructions, but they don't work: Install macOS virtual machine on a Mac with Apple silicon I downloaded "UniversalMac_15.0_24A335_Restore.ipsw" from here: https://developer.apple.com/download/ Following the instructions in the article, I opened that .ipsw in Parallels Desktop. It created a virtual machine in Desktop, but when I tried to run it I got: Clicking Install produces this error: Restarting the host Mac didn't help. I was able to install a Mac OS 15 guest by doing Parallels Desktop > New > Download Macos, which installed Mac OS 14.6.1, and then doing a Software Update in the 14.6.1 guest. But I had been hoping to avoid the extra download and install of Mac OS.
I think it contains the "software update" that "is required to install macOS in a virtual machine." I saw the following on Apple's release notes:
I wonder if I was tripping over this bug that was fixed in 20.1.0: "Fixes the issue that resulted in ISO installation images built for Arm architecture erroneously designated as incompatible during the VM setup process;"