Moved from Intel to Apple Silicon, using old Windows image

[RainerO]

Hi there!
Parallels cares deeply about the quality of our software products and the experience they provide. Since the new Mac computers with the Apple M3 chip have just been released, we will continue to do extensive testing and evaluations, both in our lab and with your help.
This thread has been created for collaborating on the issues that are found in Parallels Desktop on Mac computers with Apple M3 chips. Don't hesitate to share your experience!

I just received my new iMac today with the M3 chip and migrated all my data. Parallels forced me to upgrade to v19 for $99. After installing parallels v19 it said that my Widows 10 image is not compatible. Have you completed the upgrade so that we can run parallels or is it still to be released? If it is not ready you should have a notice on your page where you purchase the upgrade. At this point I paid for nothing!

 

[RobertH20]

I just received my new iMac today with the M3 chip and migrated all my data. Parallels forced me to upgrade to v19 for $99. After installing parallels v19 it said that my Widows 10 image is not compatible. Have you completed the upgrade so that we can run parallels or is it still to be released? If it is not ready you should have a notice on your page where you purchase the upgrade. At this point I paid for nothing!

Win 10 will not work on Apple Silicon ("M" Chips). You need to create a new VM using Windows 11 ARM. Parallels 19 should give you the option to download it when you create a new VM.