Parallels for Apple Silicon Macs Now Supports Windows 11 Pro

[Tagbert]

Parallels Desktop is expensive software for professional use. Whatever happened to the days when Virtualbox would run just about anything relatively modern?

Good thing it still works on my Intel Mac, helps me cope with having gotten one only a few months before they announced the switch to M-series 🥲

i would say that Parallels is the kind of software a professional would be willing to pay for to get better performance and support and to get access to new features like Arm support. Because they charge for their efforts, they can afford to do the work to handle Windows on Apple Silicon, where free or cheap software can’t put the investment in.

I can understand a private individual who is not making money from using Windows to not want to spend money on commercial software like Parallels, but not a business.

Ah, I see from a later post that you left out a comma. “is expensive software, for professional use” It happens.

As they say, a comma makes all the difference between “Helping my uncle, jack, off a horse” and “Helping my uncle jack off a horse.” 😊

 

[xraydoc]

I just turned off sending diagnostics to Microsoft and it gave me the option to leave the Insider program.

Where did you find that?

Edit: found it. Turned it off. Sent me to a web page, logged in with my Microsoft account info, clicked the Turn off dev mode button, does nothing. It's an original development install (which when Parallels for Apple Silicon first came out was all that would work). I think I'm stuck doing a clean install. My Windows is registered, FWIW.

 

[Zeke92]

Parallels has quietly supported Windows 11 Pro for a while now. People at my job have been using enterprise for a while now.

 

[xraydoc]

So I just did a clean install of Windows 11 for ARM, replacing the ARM Windows 10 upgraded to Windows 11 insider dev build I've had for some time.

Much faster.

 

[svish]

Good to see official support. Maybe Bootcamp can return in the future.

 

[xraydoc]

Parallels has quietly supported Windows 11 Pro for a while now. People at my job have been using enterprise for a while now.

I’ve been using it for a year now. But now you can install a non-preview version, which makes for a better experience.

 

[SouthPalito]

Wow. I‘d have even thought Microsoft would run against Parallels for allowing this on their own. 😅 But maybe the number of active Parallels/Win11/ARM systems was enough evidence for MS to see the interest of users to use Win11 on the new cpus (and building on that with their own ARM hardware as well).

Microsoft is OS agnostic now. They want people to use MS Office, teams, onedrive, etc regardless of platform, mobile or PC. It's a very smart strategy.

 

[SouthPalito]

You thought Microsoft would just let you use Windows for free?

for non-commercial use, yes they do. When you install windows 11 on parallels, it doesn't even show the watermark.

 

[SouthPalito]

Is it even possible to develop Bootcamp to run on Apple Silicon? No conjecture/guessing. Just hard facts please.

not without Apple's blessing, since their board is proprietary.

 

[MacBH928]

2 questions:-

1-Is there a purchasable Windows that will official work on this?

2-Will Windows apps run on this ARM Windows that is running on ARM MacOS?

 

[JustAnExpat]

2 questions:-

1-Is there a purchasable Windows that will official work on this?

2-Will Windows apps run on this ARM Windows that is running on ARM MacOS?

1. No. Windows for ARM is still not commercially for sale.

2. I'm not sure what's being asked. Windows ARM apps will act 100%. Windows ARM has a x64 compatibility layer, and some apps work on this layer.

 

[bogdanw]

Windows 11 Pro 22H2 ARM installed in VMware https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...dows-11-arm-preview-iso.2353567/post-31938715

 

[apt80]

But what about the software running under Win 11 arm. It needs to be arm compiled as well isn't it? Is most windows software available with arm instruction set?

 

[jr5x]

Can I run these two Intuit apps with Parallels on Apple silicon?

- Quickbooks Pro 2016
- TurboTax Business 2022

 

[bobcomer]

So why does the Intel version of VMWare Fusion supports DirectX, 3D Accelerated Graphics?

It's a more mature product. I still wouldn't game with it, though it works better at it than what's on an Arm device.

 

[bobcomer]

I've got the dev. release. Looks like I'll need to do a clean install to get out of dev mode. The options are greyed out in the Windows settings panel.

Bummer. Sorry for the bad advice.

 

[bobcomer]

But what about the software running under Win 11 arm. It needs to be arm compiled as well isn't it? Is most windows software available with arm instruction set?

No, and no, most software is still x86, though things like Office are native.

 

[fbadini]

No. This is a licensing change, not a technical change.

This is quite interesting considering Microsoft is not selling Windows on ARM. I really don't understand how this thing fit

 

[fbadini]

This is exactly what this change provides.

AFAIK still not selling Windows on ARM

 

[fbadini]

You can purchase Windows 11 through Parallels. Or you can still download the ISO from the Microsoft Preview site and enter a valid Windows key after installation.

AFAIK through Parallels you can download the Insider Preview without the needs to have an insider account. That is NO selling a Windows on ARM license

 

[chucker23n1]

Because the VM software have a hard limit on what resources you can allocate to them

Yes, no doubt dual-boot gives you more resources.

and they don't give you much to work with. Barely anything above 8 gb of RAM and only a few cores. Said limits do not exist in a dualboot.

Those limits don't exist in Parallels Pro either; my VM runs on 12 Gigs.

To you. You don't dualboot we get it. Others do

No, to everyone. I'm not saying it's useless, I'm saying it's less useful than it was ca. 2006 when Boot Camp came around. Less software is Windows-specific, and less Windows software exists natively on ARM.

 

[genexx]

I've been using this for months. I installed the image directly from Parallels after I installed parallels desktop. I assumed it was the release version.

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Installed and Activated Windows Pro 11 Arm in UTM 21.11.2022

Works flawless.

 

[genexx]

UTM? It's a great big bag of hurt - crashes, refuses to boot, etc. It's firn if you want to play around; but even tehn VM Ware is also free in such cases and at least it's stable.

I use UTM with Win11 Pro Arm ( Mac OS 9 / 10.7 / 4 Variants of Ubuntu Arm + ) on MBA M2 with no Issue at all.
Neither UTM nor the Hosted VM´s or the Ventura MacOS ever crashed or hang in any way.

But jet, if some F up their Systems, things can happen

 

[dgdosen]

Does virtualized Windows on Apple Silicon run faster than native Windows on Qualcomm?

 

[alphaswift]

What are people using ARM for? The only common thing for ARM to run is Office and Edge which already run just fine on M1 Macs. I need to be able to run native Project Pro on windows and I can't do that in ARM.