Parallels Desktop for Mac computers with Apple M2 chips

Sorry in advance for my poor english, venice italy man here used to write and speak decently well, but 3-months coma subsequent to cancer surgery gone bad forced me to learn a lot of things almost from scratch. Bed+physio+wheelchair and stuff for over 2 years.

I want my job back again, this year.
I have an Intel MacBook Pro 15" 2016 with a couple of Parallels Desktop Pro VMs with Windows 10 on: one for my job with complex applications and configurations, and one for games (they're not AAA).
My MacBook cannot be upgraded to this year's new OS, and it also seems a bit slow on my last games (macOS's and VM Windows's). Moreover some licenses have expired the time I was in hospital (Parallels, MSOffice, editor, etc), so I was wondering if a new Silicon M2/Mx Pro/Max could bring a new modern life.

I was said I could not use those VMs Intel-->Silicon unchanged on Parallels 18. Is it possibile to convert their macOS files in a way, to have them work the best they can on the new MacBook?
Reinstalling the job's VM as a brand new on Silicon will be a pain... you got me. It also will require to get back to the Office, and right now I physically can't.
I don't want to think my only chance is to stick to my 2016 computer...

Thanx in advance,
A.

 

Unfortunately there's no way to convert an Intel VM to an ARM VM. On a Mac with an M-series CPU you need to create a new VM with Windows 11 and reinstall your software. What you can do is transfer data from an old Intel VM to the new VM.
Your other option would be to buy a used Intel Mac.

 

A quick update and thank you:

I have been using Dragon Professional 16 on a MacBook Air M2 with 24 GB of RAM (8GB devoted to the Windows 11 virtual machine) for several days now under Parallels 18, and it has been working perfectly.

Whereas on my old 2014 Intel MacBook Pro rig I could no longer run Word for more than a few seconds without running into trouble, I can now I can keep a Windows vm open indefinitely in the background, using Dragon to dictate into Word while using the MacBook's native Voice Control active on the Mac side. (I personally do not find Voice Control to be good enough to dictate articles for my work as a journalist, but it is great for emails and the like.)

Activity Monitor shows that all of this generates negligible memory pressure and at most moderate CPU usage, even when I am running Safari, Edge, and multiple other apps. Furthermore, the fanless MacBook Air does not heat up at all under this kind of load--whereas my 2014 MacBook Pro used to get hot enough to fry eggs despite having the loudest fan imaginable.

Thanks to everyone for their advice, and for pushing me to get the 24GB of RAM!

AG

 

I am running a MacBook Air with 16 gigs and the M2 chip and have noticed it getting hot at all.

 

Same here; I'm running it on a MacBook Air M2 and it doesn't get hot at all.

 

Does anyone know if Quicken apps can run on a MacBook Pro with an M2 processor using Parallels Desktop for Mac with Apple M chips?

 

Yes, you can also ask on the Quicken user forums (https://community.quicken.com/discussions).

 

Thank you! I have posted on the Quicken Forum but no response yet.
My Intel based MacBook died recently and I would like confirmation that the Quicken Home and Business Windows program can run on a MacBook M2 machine using Parallels with the ARM version of Windows 11...run Quicken Windows in that virtual machine.... I have a new MacBook on order. Would like to still be able to run Quicken H&B on the new machine...

 

Is it possible to enable HyperV on Windows11 running in Parallels 18 on a Mac with the M2 silicon chip?

 

I read the article here:
https://kb.parallels.com/116239

I am on a Mac M2 machine.
When I follow the instructions for enabling nested virtualization, I get this page -- the checkbox that the article refers to is not there.
The article says "Note: this feature is currently not supported in Parallels Desktop on Mac computers with Apple M1 chip."

Is it also the case that this feature is not currently supported on Mac computers with the M2 chip? If so, when will this feature be coming to the M2 machines?

 

Hello,
Unfortunately, we don't know if support for nested virtualization will be implemented in Apple's framework in the future.

 

Wondering if there's still no way to provide a type and serial # for a OSX VM with the m2? I need to enrol a vm with Jamf.

 

Hi there,
New here, if it's not the right forum sorry, thanks in advance for your help!

I have an issue with a program (TurboCad v28 - x64) so I thought I could get some help around here.
I'm using a MacBook Air 2023 with M2 chip, 16GB of RAM and Ventura 13.4.1.
I need this windows program, this is why for the moment I'm in trial period with Parallel Desktop 18.3.2 Pro Edition with windows 11, just to see that everything work (I have a PC but with this new mac I hoped I could solve everything with a virtual machine).
No issue with Parallels installation, everything super smooth.
I installed TurboCad but when I launch it, I get a "exception not handled, the program will close (it's in french so I'm guessing this is the right translation).
Any idea of where the issue comes from and how I could solve it?

Thanks again

 

Seems you cannot run macOS vm from an external disk. Reinstalled on my m1 local drive and it works now..

 

Yes you can , just move the .pvm file to the external disk

 

I do that with all my VM's like debian, opensuse etc and that's working great. However not for macOS Monterey, it just won't run like that on my m1 mini.

 

What Format you use for the external drive? what parallels version are you using?
I'm running Ventura pvm on external nvme with 6gb of ram attributed and it's very slow compare to windows11 and linux ( i've got 16gb of ram on my mac mini m2)

 

Hi, I run Parallels 17 on macOS Monterey. The format of the drive is APFS.

 

you can't run your macOS Vm (arm64) on an external drive which isn't APFS-formatted: https://kb.parallels.com/128867