While support for Big Sur is the headline feature, Parallels 16 also comes with several new features and improvements. That forced the developers to re-engineer the virtualization software from the ground up, but that challenge has now been officially completed. When Apple introduced macOS Big Sur, it ended support for the third-party kernel extensions that previous versions of Parallels were built on. But neither Parallels nor VMWare claim to be the 'only' solution.Parallels Desktop 16 released today, bringing some notable new features and performance enhancements to the virtualization software, including full support for macOS Big Sur. In fact, I might have enough space to test them both and ultimately use the one that seems more reliable. I went with 2TB so I should easily be able to allocate far more that I did for my old Win7 guest OS machine or the HP laptop I have. I suppose that the drive size I ultimately allocate to a Win11 machine will be a factor. Run Windows 11 virtual machines on Intel or Apple Silicon hardware with a new Virtual Trusted Platform Module with Fast Encryption. Since I read this announcement, and since I've used Fusion in the past, I decided to check out what VMWare has to say (aside from that they have what appears to be a no-cost Player version):įusion 13 Pro and Player support running VMs on macOS 12 Monterey or macOS 13 Ventura, on Intel or Apple Silicon Macs. Microsoft recognized Parallels Desktop as an authorized solution for running Arm versions of Windows 11 Pro and Enterprise installed in a virtual machine with Parallels Desktop on Mac with Apple silicon.

Decided to check out their website today and discovered that as of February 16 (less than three weeks ago) they state ( ): Since the advent of M1, I've heard different developments about Parallels being able to run Windows 10/11. I have a 16' M2 MBP (32GB RAM, 2TB SSD) on order, will get within two weeks. I stopped using it for a separate low cost HP laptop where I currently have Windows 11 (upgraded from 10). My current Mac is a late 2013 MBP (when they first released the Haswell processors) and I've run VMWare Fusion on it since the start for Windows 7, running Big Sur (MacOS 11) and frequently ran it in Unity mode. To run Windows 11 on a Mac, what user experiences fellow Redditors have had running Parallels or VMWare Fusion on Apple Silicon, the newest Macintosh computers?

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