Parallels Desktop 17: Can not install Centos7
- Thread starter Ryan Hei
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Hello, Kindly help us with the technical report ID of Virtual Machine by referring to this KB article, so that we can instigate the issue.
Maxim Rasulov
Staff member
Hello.
From the screenshot, it appears you're trying to install CentOS 7 Arm on Apple Silicon powered Mac.
Unfortunately, for CentOS 7 that is not possible, due to the difference in pagesizes for the kernel used by CentOS 7 (64kb) and Apple Silicon (4 or 16kb).
Partially its caused by the fact that CentOS 7 was released prior to release of Apple Silicon Mac's and kernels were not adapted in publicly available builds.
If you wish to use CentOS, we recommend installing a newer distributive, such as CentOS 9 which adopted the pagesize, as versions 8 of the operating system also have the same issue.
For more in depth information, you can refer to the following discussion on CentOS forums: https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?t=78547
From the screenshot, it appears you're trying to install CentOS 7 Arm on Apple Silicon powered Mac.
Unfortunately, for CentOS 7 that is not possible, due to the difference in pagesizes for the kernel used by CentOS 7 (64kb) and Apple Silicon (4 or 16kb).
Partially its caused by the fact that CentOS 7 was released prior to release of Apple Silicon Mac's and kernels were not adapted in publicly available builds.
If you wish to use CentOS, we recommend installing a newer distributive, such as CentOS 9 which adopted the pagesize, as versions 8 of the operating system also have the same issue.
For more in depth information, you can refer to the following discussion on CentOS forums: https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?t=78547