Run more than 2 Concurrent macOS Ventura VMs on M1 Ultra

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop on a Mac with Apple silicon' started by Incarnadine, Jul 22, 2023.

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  1. Incarnadine

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    Incarnadine, Jul 22, 2023
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  2. Ashley Chumun

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    Greetings,
    Thank you for your feedback.
    Currently it is possible to run only 2 macOS VMs simultaneously on Parallels Desktop on Apple M-series Chip.
    More information can be found in article https://kb.parallels.com/en/128867 and you can also click on "Get Updates" button to be notified of any upcoming changes.
    Thank you!
     
    Ashley Chumun, Jul 23, 2023
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  3. Incarnadine

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    Thanks for the info. Can you provide any additional insight into this? Is this a limitation that would require a change from Apple? Or is it something that just hasn't been implemented yet on Parallels end? Thanks so much!
     
    Incarnadine, Jul 24, 2023
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    MatthewR20, Jul 26, 2023
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    The Apple Software License Agreement limits the number of VMs to 2.
     
    MatthewR20, Jul 26, 2023
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    This is a license limitation? I thought it was a hardware limitation of the platform?
     
    Aries@PF, Jul 27, 2023
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    Yeah this is interesting. You can run more than 2 on intel macs.
     
    Incarnadine, Jul 27, 2023
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  8. Pavel Merkulov

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    It's a limitation of Apple's framework
     
    Pavel Merkulov, Jul 27, 2023
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