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My only complaint is that I would like to do PXE boot. What else is there to say? It does the job and does it reasonably well. ItвЂ™s functional and pretty, and reflects the expected number of VMs that youвЂ™re likely to set up - single digits is going to be the norm, so something more visual is appropriate. Not sure whatвЂ™s up with that, but at least you can attach ISOs and capture USB devices so that you can boot from media.Д¬ontrolling existing VMs is done via the Control Center: Weirdly, even though I can configure the VM to specify that network (PXE) boot should be in the boot order, I canвЂ™t get that to show up in the Boot Manager menu. (I donвЂ™t expect to do any hard-code tasks in the VM, so as long as the VM is reasonably responsive IвЂ™m good.)Д¬onfiguration options in a VM are pretty much as expected:ДЄs I do a fair amount of work with bare metal imaging (yes, even on ARM64), I always want to see the firmware menus: How well does it work? I have no complaints - I can do everything I need in the Windows VM, and performance is quite reasonable. The Parallels Tools get updated any time Parallels Desktop gets updated, so I hadnвЂ™t started this VM since I last upgraded Parallels.) (Notice that my VM is labeled вЂњWindows 10вЂќ - that was the current release when I first created the VM, and since it was an insider build, it has since upgraded to Windows 11.

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Once Windows 11 is installed, it will automatically install the Parallels Tools in the VM, to better integrate Windows 11 into your environment. And of course it can download and install various flavors of Linux as well. to meet the Windows hardware requirements. To run Windows 11, it does provide the expected virtual TPM 2.0 support, UEFI, Secure Boot, etc. It will even download the Windows 11 VHDX for you: Parallels goes out of its way to show Windows front-and-center, even though Microsoft barely supports this with a VHDX disk image of the latest ARM64 Windows 11 Insider Preview build. Next, you get a choice of OSes to install. As there can be a lot of confusion around what you can (ARM64) and canвЂ™t (Intel) emulate on an M1 Mac, Parallels needs to start with a screenful of information: You typically start off with a virtualization solution by creating a VM, so letвЂ™s start there.

So whatвЂ™s the difference? LetвЂ™s do a quick comparison.

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VMware then later released a tech preview for their own VMware Fusion software (free while in preview). Initially, the only option for running virtual machines on M1 Macs was Parallels Desktop, so thatвЂ™s where I started. (You might think the first VM was a Windows VM, but thatвЂ™s not the case, the first was a Fedora 34 Linux installation. Not surprisingly, the first thing I wanted to do on it was to run virtual machines.

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The software maker does provide a Windows 10 on Arm preview build, which can be downloaded from MicrosoftвЂ™s Windows Insider website.ДЄlongside the Windows 10 on Arm support, Parallels Desktop 16.5 for Mac also supports Linux distros like Ubuntu 20.04, Kali Linux 2021.1, Debian 10.7, and Fedora Workstation 33-1.2.I have a Mac Mini with the original ARM-based M1 chip.

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Microsoft only currently licenses the Arm version of Windows 10 to PC makers, so thereвЂ™s no official way to buy a copy yet. The main drawback is that youвЂ™ll need to run a preview version of Windows to make this all work. ThereвЂ™s also a promise of up to 60 percent better DirectX 11 performance and up to 30 percent better overall virtual machine performance running the Arm version of Windows 10 on an M1 Mac instead of a Windows 10 VM on an Intel-based MacBook Pro.

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According to Corel, the 16.5 update uses up to 250 percent less energy on an M1 Mac, compared to an Intel-based MacBook Air. Parallels Desktop maker Corel says its latest update also results in some impressive performance and battery improvements over running the software on Intel-based Macs. There will be some app limitations on the Windows 10 on Arm side, thanks to its own app emulation, but Windows 10 on Arm will soon support ењ†4 app emulation, too. The latest version of Parallels Desktop for Mac now allows M1 Mac owners to run Windows 10 on Arm apps or traditional x86 apps side by side with Mac or iOS apps on Big Sur. Parallels Desktop 16.5 now includes the necessary native support to run the Arm version of Windows on M1 chips, following AppleвЂ™s decision not to support Boot Camp on M1 Macs.

Parallels is releasing an update to its Desktop virtual machine software that allows M1 Mac owners to install Windows 10 on Arm.

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