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Parallels Desktop 16.5 for Mac (parallels.com)
26 points by tosh on April 14, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments



Has anything changed for Intel chips? Or is it just for ARM? The ARM support is new but it is not quite clear to me whether there is any difference for Intel.

> which features full native support for Mac computers equipped with either Apple M1 or Intel chips

Looks like there are some more details on general changes in [0].

[0]

https://www.parallels.com/news/press-releases/show/pd16-for-...


I caved last week while playing Among Us on virtualbox. The difference is night and day on parallels, even with an intel chip.


It'd be nice to know the specific use cases for needing Parallels over VirtualBox since I've used the latter for years for things like running Win2K (not connected to the Internet) for a legacy financial app, and running Win10 just to use a tax program (cheaper than the web version). I also use VirtualBox to run a Linux VM for development where I don't want to crap up my day-to-day environment. Plus, you know, Parallels's subscription model.


Bootcamp comes with OSX and runs windows great on my Macbook with a small partition.


They don't have to be exclusive of each other. One of the nice features of Parallels is that it can run your Bootcamp partition inside of a VM. Very convenient if you need to do something quickly in Windows and don't want to go through all of the mishegas of rebooting out of OS X.


No Bootcamp for Apple Silicon.


So, can we run x86 VMs on Apple silicon using Parallels?


ARM VMs only from what I understand. Unfortunately.


Looks like the writing is on the wall for Apple kit, we use them to do .Net development in Windows VMs. If Apple go all ARM, well that's it, we'll have to buy something else.


So can Rosetta be used to run x86 Windows 10 binaries on Windows for ARM? How is application support for Windows for ARM in general?


Rosetta only does user space emulation. Windows for ARM has a x86 emulator too though.




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