Parallels Desktop for Apple Silicon

[Internaut]

Likewise, would love a proper Windows Licence for an ARM build...

Rather impressed with Parallels today. Needed to run up a soft phone that only runs on Windows, and VPN into the office. Both worked fine after a monumental effort to get the Windows Store to work at all and then install AnyConnect for ARM Windows. Main plusses are:

• Used Coherence for the first time.
• My Softphone (PhonerLite - Intel Binary on Windows for ARM) runs perfectly
• Double clicked on a Word document, on the corporate network, forgetting my Windows VM has no Word; no problem since Parallels offered to open it in Word on the Mac!
• Able to save back to the corporate network directly from Word on the Mac (via the Windows VM's VPN connection).
• I think I've found situation where multiple tabs , in Edge, can be more memory efficient from within a Windows VM than through the Edge Mac (M1) binary which is a bit bizarre (suspect it's because I'm running Teams in a tab and Electron is native on ARM Windows).

Only thing that doesn't work for me is WSL - I suspect that's because it generally doesn't run from within a Windows VM, but hope to stand corrected.

 

[bobcomer]

Not to mention the need for an internet connection; which can be a challenge at times. Pre Covid I traveled a lot, try getting a good reliable connection on an over ocean flight or in some countries.

Good point!

 

[jdb8167]

Likewise, would love a proper Windows Licence for an ARM build...

Only thing that doesn't work for me is WSL - I suspect that's because it generally doesn't run from within a Windows VM, but hope to stand corrected.

I think WSL doesn’t work because either the M1 or Apple’s virtualization framework doesn’t support virtualization inside virtualization.

 

[5425642]

I think WSL doesn’t work because either the M1 or Apple’s virtualization framework doesn’t support virtualization inside virtualization.

And that’s a bad ide too

 

[haralds]

You can run WSL in v1 mode.

 

[jdb8167]

And that’s a bad ide too

I don’t think it’s a problem as long as the CPU supports it like most recent Core & Xeon CPUs from Intel. For non-enterprise use it is pretty obscure though.

 

[Berries-A-Million]

Not sure I am liking Parallels any longer. I've tried to contact them multiple ways about my subscription issues, and ive gotten no response from them and its been weeks. May have to find another product if I can't get my subscription fixed. Their customer service is non-existent.

 

[haralds]

Not sure I am liking Parallels any longer. I've tried to contact them multiple ways about my subscription issues, and ive gotten no response from them and its been weeks. May have to find another product if I can't get my subscription fixed. Their customer service is non-existent.

Odd. Have you used their ticket system? I usually get a response in <24 hours. They are in Europe and I am in CA.

 

[Internaut]

You can run WSL in v1 mode.

Thank you. Finally got around to trying that, Googling how to force version 1 and suddenly Ubuntu for Windows is all up and running for me.

 

[Berries-A-Million]

Odd. Have you used their ticket system? I usually get a response in <24 hours. They are in Europe and I am in CA.

I tried their twitter account, and their contact them on the site for support form.

 

[manuelg]

I tried their twitter account, and their contact them on the site for support form

I tried their twitter account, and their contact them on the site for support form.

Parallels global headquarters is in Seattle. You can reach customer support at 1-888-811-2489