running Sonoma as VM in Parallels...

[wonderings]

I installed Sonoma in Parallels 17 on my M1 Max. What I really wanted to use was FaceTime so I could use the wide angle lens on the iPhone. I discovered that I could not sign into my iCloud account and that there is some limitation with iCloud accounts and VM. Not sure if it is specific to parallels or all VM's. Anyone find any work around to use FaceTime in a Mac OS VM?

 

[chrfr]

I installed Sonoma in Parallels 17 on my M1 Max. What I really wanted to use was FaceTime so I could use the wide angle lens on the iPhone. I discovered that I could not sign into my iCloud account and that there is some limitation with iCloud accounts and VM. Not sure if it is specific to parallels or all VM's. Anyone find any work around to use FaceTime in a Mac OS VM?

All the VM platforms on Apple Silicon have this limitation because they all use Apple virtualization frameworks which do not support signing in with Apple IDs.

 

[Mike Boreham]

What @chrfr said. I wanted to do this and hit the same brick wall. Makes Parallels fairly useless for me for Mac VMs though no doubt there are some uses.

More about it here.

 

[wonderings]

More silliness from Apple that hampers testing of an OS before installing. Not that I would install a beta, but I would test it out, see how my apps work, printers, etc.

 

[wonderings]

Does any other VM software allow you to use your Apple ID with a Mac VM?

 

[chrfr]

Does any other VM software allow you to use your Apple ID with a Mac VM?

Not on Apple Silicon. As I mentioned in my earlier post, and expanded on in the link in post 3, it's a limitation of how Apple has enabled virtualization of macOS on Apple Silicon. macOS Sonoma will add some more features to virtualization but I don't believe you'll be able to sign into an Apple ID in Sonoma, either.

 

[thebart]

How does Apple expect devs to test their software on different Mac os? Buy a different machine for each?

 

[jdb8167]

How does Apple expect devs to test their software on different Mac os? Buy a different machine for each?

It's truly one of Apple's more baffling decisions. Why go through all the effort to support macOS VMs with a new (new in Monterey) library and then make it practically useless for everything most users want from a VM?

 

[Rkuda]

Uhhhh.... you seriously gonna tell me that none of you know about installing macOS onto a separate Volume (Partition before APFS)?

I mean HTF do you think people did this before VMs were even a thing? This has been THE way to install multiple OSs on a Mac for over twenty years...