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Is there anyone using Parallels Desktop on Mac? Any tips?

I purchased Parallels Desktop for Mac with the understanding that it is possible to install a macOS Mojave virtual machine on my MacBook Pro 2021 with macOS Monterey, but I'm having trouble setting it up. Ideally, I want to be able to run my favorite 2007 32-bit accounting program on my new 64-bit mac. Resorting to hiring my Mac specialist, even he and his colleagues couldn’t install Mojave on a trial Mac. Has anyone successfully installed Mojave into the program Parallels Desktop?

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 12.1

Posted on Mar 12, 2024 10:50 AM

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User profile for user: Grant Bennet-Alder
Grant Bennet-Alder
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Posted on Mar 12, 2024 4:39 PM

It appears that Parallels is not able to cross over from Apple-silicon architecture and provide an intel X86 environment in a virtual machine.


Supported Guest Operating Systems (Mac with Apple silicon):

Only Arm versions of operating systems are supported.

  • Windows 11 Pro and Enterprise editions 
  • (recommended)
  • Ubuntu Linux 23.04, 22.04, 21.10, 21.04, 20.10, 20.04
  • Fedora Workstation 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33-1.2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Debian GNU/Linux 12, 11, 10
  • Kali Linux 2023.1, 2022.2, 2022.1, 2021.3
  • CentOS Stream 9
  • macOS Monterey 12 (in-app download)
  • macOS Ventura 13 (in-app download)
  • macOS Sonoma 14 (in-app download)


from:

https://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/use-cases/developers/cross-platform-testing/

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User profile for user: Grant Bennet-Alder
Grant Bennet-Alder
User level: Level 10
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Mar 12, 2024 4:39 PM in response to LMP_MD

It appears that Parallels is not able to cross over from Apple-silicon architecture and provide an intel X86 environment in a virtual machine.


Supported Guest Operating Systems (Mac with Apple silicon):

Only Arm versions of operating systems are supported.

  • Windows 11 Pro and Enterprise editions 
  • (recommended)
  • Ubuntu Linux 23.04, 22.04, 21.10, 21.04, 20.10, 20.04
  • Fedora Workstation 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33-1.2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Debian GNU/Linux 12, 11, 10
  • Kali Linux 2023.1, 2022.2, 2022.1, 2021.3
  • CentOS Stream 9
  • macOS Monterey 12 (in-app download)
  • macOS Ventura 13 (in-app download)
  • macOS Sonoma 14 (in-app download)


from:

https://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/use-cases/developers/cross-platform-testing/

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