Parallels / Windows 11 / TPM ?

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  1. JohnE16

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    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?
     
  2. JohnE16

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    Oops - I should have added that the Mac Pro is Intel based (Xeon CPU I believe)
     
  3. JohnE16

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    No-one knows if Parallels needs a TPM chip to run Windows 11 ?
     
  4. McallenT@P

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    Hello, Please refer to this KB article: https://kb.parallels.com/en/122702 and check. Thanks, Parallels Team.
     
  5. JohnE16

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    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?
     
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