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Parallels tech preview for M1

Got an email from parallels:

"
Thank you for all your feedback about Parallels® Desktop 16 for M1 Mac Technical Preview that we have received. Today, we are happy to announce a big update that brings significant improvements, including the ability to suspend and resume a virtual machine, Parallels Tools support for Linux, and many more fixes.

To install the update, click on the Parallels icon on Mac's menu bar > Check for Updates...

To try Parallels Desktop 16 for M1 Mac Technical Preview for free, simply follow the link below to get started."
 
I attempted to install linux tools on Debian 10.7 and 10.8. No errors indicated, however screen resize feature is not working...
 
just installed ubuntu for arm 2021-04 beta, screen resizing works, could install haskell-platform, parallels shared folders work, network is working
 
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Uack, when I signed in to my private Microsoft/Live account to get Win10 to the Insider Beta version I somehow linked it hard to my Windows account. With the new Parallels I don't have network when booting win10 and it seems without it I cant login. To get network again I would probably need to upgrade the Parallels tools inside windows but is impossible to do when I can't login without Internet Access. I don't do much in this installl, except running powershell so I just installed a new Win10.
 
My existing WOA wouldn't boot, or even do a reset, with the new version of parallels, so I had to start all over again. I wont be able to test the networking until i get home...
 
While I was initially somewhat concerned that the lack of (supported, non-developer preview) Windows VM ability was going to be a downside to my migration to an M1-based MBA (there's two Windows-based app that I periodically need for work), my place of work recently got set up with Citrix remote sessions for all the things I would have needed Windows for on my laptop. So I can go Windows-free on the laptop (though I still use Windows on my big desktop PC at home and of course at work).

Which works out well because my new MBA was just delivered today. Can't wait to get home from work!
 
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haralds said:
working fine with Windows. Ubuntu networking broke so I cannot update the tools, since they need gcc, make, etc.
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I had this problem too. The network device is now being detected as eth0, whereas the original device was detected as enp0s2. Update /etc/netplan/00-installer-config.yaml to use the correct device and restart networking.
 
xraydoc said:
While I was initially somewhat concerned that the lack of (supported, non-developer preview) Windows VM ability was going to be a downside to my migration to an M1-based MBA (there's two Windows-based app that I periodically need for work), my place of work recently got set up with Citrix remote sessions for all the things I would have needed Windows for on my laptop. So I can go Windows-free on the laptop (though I still use Windows on my big desktop PC at home and of course at work).

Which works out well because my new MBA was just delivered today. Can't wait to get home from work!
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This is what I did with ESXi. Run a VM at the datacenter and install AnyDesk on it. (Because I don’t have the financial resources for Horizon or Citrix)
 
kave said:
Why not just remote desktop in to windows 10?
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That works in a lot of cases; so does a Citrix solution. But if you need to use software at a remote site with poor or nonexistent internet, you are going to need an alternative. A lot of industrial software has low performance requirements. If you can run Windows on Arm and emulate the x86 software in a VM on a M1 Mac then you are covered since the performance is actually not too terrible. The big question is if you will be legally allowed to run WoA on an M1 VM.
 
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That works in a lot of cases; so does a Citrix solution. But if you need to use software at a remote site with poor or nonexistent internet, you are going to need an alternative. A lot of industrial software has low performance requirements. If you can run Windows on Arm and emulate the x86 software in a VM on a M1 Mac then you are covered since the performance is actually not too terrible. The big question is if you will be legally allowed to run WoA on an M1 VM.
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I believe with a real license that will happen, the question will be if it's only the Pro license.
 
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Here are some Cinebench results running the Windows version of Cinebench through Parallels with 2, 4, and 8 cores. Not too bad. (Under Big Sur 11.3 Beta 2 the results are 7228.)

Screen Shot 2021-02-20 at 8.37.46 AM.jpg
 
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One app that wouldn’t load previously for me now loads. VCDS for VW automotive diagnostics. Only issue now is the driver for the vagcom obdii USB adapter which I assume has to be rewritten for arm
 
I'm wondering, how long does the mac battery last when running parallels? I'm stilling a drop of 12% for around an hour of parallels running. App inside Windows is a charting application but running mostly in the background while I use other native Mac apps.

Wonder if it's normal.
 
DblHelix said:
One app that wouldn’t load previously for me now loads. VCDS for VW automotive diagnostics. Only issue now is the driver for the vagcom obdii USB adapter which I assume has to be rewritten for arm
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All my tuning apps that don't require any dongles or drivers now run since the last dev channel beta

Pretty cool how far this has come in just a short time.

Hopefully FDTI writes a arm driver sooner than later.
 
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