

In fact, you need VOCR for everything in the first time setup, to sign in to your account and create a VM.

I'm pretty sure that once you are on an insider build, you can wait for the latest stable release, and then leave the insider program and use it that way, though I never tried this latter possibility. In fact, the only reason you even need to be on insider builds is because Microsoft doesn't provide Iso files for the ARM version of Windows as regular releases, but rather as a testing preview. Both are fine to use with Parallels, you can use them as you like.

Insider preview is a kind of beta of Windows releases, where you have 2 different channels, dev, less stable and with frequent updates, and beta, more stable and not so frequent updates. You can share your experience and findings on our Forum.It's far from ideal, but if you need it, it is certainly usable.įirst of all, you absolutely must use Windows 11 insider preview builds for the best performance, but more importantly because that is the only way to legally get an ARM version of Windows. It will only take a few minutes and can be done in a couple of clicks.

To make sure that your app/game runs correctly in Windows on Arm, we recommend starting up a trial version of our Parallels Desktop for Mac and installing a trial copy of Windows 11 for Arm in it. If the application still crashes/doesn't start/starts with an error, we advise you to contact the software developer to request them to enable Arm support. NOTE: We don’t guarantee that this method will resolve the problem, as some x86 apps require developer attention to become Arm-compatible. If you’re trying to run an application/game in Windows 11 on Arm, and it doesn't start or crashes right upon launch, we advise you to enable compatibility settings: right-click the application icon > Properties > Compatibility tab > Change emulation settings > tick all the options as shown in the screenshot below: In this case, we advise you to inquire about the status of Arm support from the application/game developer. Application/game crashes or doesn't start This error message means that the application/game contains a CPU check that detects an incompatible CPU and terminates the launch. When you launch a third-party Windows application/game on a Mac with an M-series chip, you may encounter an error message stating that the application/game doesn't support Arm architecture.
