

If the topic of virtualization interests you, check out some more of our posts on the subject. Full Disclosure: I am a product manager at Parallels. However, we are not expecting any problems. There are many other options available for virtualization, including the free UTM app which allows you to easily run Windows 11 on an Apple Silicon Mac for example, but there’s also paid solutions including VMWare and Parallels. Can you run Parallels Desktop on Macs with Apple’s M1 Pro/Max chip The new Apple chips, M1 Pro and M1 Max, have not even shipped yet, so there is no way for us to test Parallels Desktop on these chips.

While technically in beta, anyone can get access to the developer preview beta ARM build of VirtualBox through the VirtualBox website. It does this by virtualizing hardware (that you can adjust to allocate RAM, storage capacity, etc), so the operating system itself doesn’t know that it’s not running on actual hardware. VirtualBox is virtualization software that allows you to run other operating systems in containers on your Mac directly from the application, for example you can run Linux or Windows directly within VirtualBox, and without having to use dual-booting or anything else.
