RELATED: How to Get the Windows 11 Preview on Your PC How to Install Windows 11 in Parallels on a Macįirst, you’ll need to download and install Parallels 17 or higher on your Mac. M1 Macs can’t run the Intel version of Windows 11 in Parallels. To do that, you’ll need a Microsoft account registered with the Windows Insider Program. In the case of Intel Macs, it’s easy to download the Windows 11 ISO for free from Microsoft’s website.Īs of November 2021, to install Windows 11 on an M1 Mac, you have to download a Windows 11 on ARM preview build from Microsoft. We have prepared detailed instructions on how to do it in this article.Īpart from the nuance above, virtual machines will not be affected in any other way – Windows will continue to work as usual, as well as all Windows applications.You’ll also need a license for Windows 11, which you can purchase from Microsoft after installing the OS. It is not quite easy to copy this record to a new Mac, but it is possible. The VM will NOT start without the corresponding record in the Mac Keychain that contains a password to decrypt the TPM file. Such an implementation ensures that users don’t have to come up with a password and enter it every time they start a VM, plus we humans tend to forget and lose passwords. Users can continue running their virtual machines as usual, up to the moment when one wants to transfer the VM to a new hardware.įor a VM with TPM chip added, copying the PVM bundle to a new computer is not enough.
After adding a virtual TPM chip to a VM, Parallels Desktop creates an encrypted file within the virtual machine bundle that acts as a TPM storage. This storage must be secured, so Parallels Desktop encrypts this file using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with 128 bits key length and puts the password in the Mac System Keychain, which, in turn, is encrypted physical storage, and only Parallels Desktop (or Mac admin) can read the TPM password from Mac Keychain.
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