Apple Silicon Parallels Technical Preview and macOS Big Sur Guests

[Yebubbleman]

For those that are or have been monkeying around with the Parallels Desktop Technical Preview for Apple Silicon: Are you able to create a VM and install macOS Big Sur on it (as one could do with Intel Macs running Intel versions of both Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion)? If so, is the process any different? If so, is the performance any different? Any interesting tidbits that one ought to be aware of? (I know that virtualizing anything earlier is a no-go due to all earlier versions of macOS released in the past decade being Intel only.)

 

[jdb8167]

For those that are or have been monkeying around with the Parallels Desktop Technical Preview for Apple Silicon: Are you able to create a VM and install macOS Big Sur on it (as one could do with Intel Macs running Intel versions of both Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion)? If so, is the process any different? If so, is the performance any different? Any interesting tidbits that one ought to be aware of? (I know that virtualizing anything earlier is a no-go due to all earlier versions of macOS released in the past decade being Intel only.)

I'm stumped on how to even attempt it. What you use to install? I think Apple needs to help on this one. I have a bootable USB installer, I guess I could try that.

 

[Acidsplat]

Big Sur guests aren't supported yet, but will be in the future.

 

[Yebubbleman]

I'm stumped on how to even attempt it. What you use to install? I think Apple needs to help on this one. I have a bootable USB installer, I guess I could try that.

On Intel versions of both Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion, you just pointed to the Installer App and it did the rest. I'd assume that it'd be the same here...?

Big Sur guests aren't supported yet, but will be in the future.

Do you have any link to supporting documentation? I'm not saying I don't believe you, it'd just be cool to see.

 

[Acidsplat]

On Intel versions of both Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion, you just pointed to the Installer App and it did the rest. I'd assume that it'd be the same here...?

Do you have any link to supporting documentation? I'm not saying I don't believe you, it'd just be cool to see

Parallels 16 switched to the native Apple hypervisor in Big Sur for Intel machines, which is also what the Technical Preview uses on M1 machines for virtualization. Big Sur as a guest OS is built into the hypervisor by default, but the technical preview still doesn't even have suspend and resume implemented as it's still early.