Parallels / Windows 11 / TPM ?

[JohnE16]

I've a Mac Pro here (circa 2017) and I'm currently dual-booting it between Mojave and Windows 10. Occasionally I've tried to upgrade Win10 to Win11 but it tells me that Win11 requires something called a TPM chip. I'm not sure if my Mac Pro doesn't have that chip or if maybe it's disabled.

Would Parallels help me get around this? In other words, if I installed Parallels under Mojave, would it then allow Win11 to be installed despite the absence of that TPM chip?

 

[JohnE16]

Oops - I should have added that the Mac Pro is Intel based (Xeon CPU I believe)

 

[JohnE16]

No-one knows if Parallels needs a TPM chip to run Windows 11 ?

 

[McallenT@P]

No-one knows if Parallels needs a TPM chip to run Windows 11 ?

Hello, Please refer to this KB article: https://kb.parallels.com/en/122702 and check. Thanks, Parallels Team.

 

[JohnE16]

Many thanks McallenT - that was a great link !
There's a sentence which says:- "Open the virtual machine's configuration > Hardware > click + > select TPM chip > click Add" To me, this suggests to me that the virtual TPM chip is provided by Parallels, rather than me needing to obtain it from somewhere else. I just want to check if I've understood that correctly?

 

[Mark Fine]

I believe it uses what's already in your Macbook Pro.
Forget the kb. Refer to this: https://forum.parallels.com/threads...rom-legacy-to-uefi-in-prep-for-win-11.354888/
There's likely other things that need to be done other than just the TPM.