I’ve been using Parallels Desktop for Mac to run Windows 11 on ARM on my Apple Silicon Mac for a while, and it works really well.

Using Windows 11 with Parallels Desktop for Mac has some limitations

All Macs with M1 and M2 chips have dropped support for Boot Camp, Apple’s multi-boot utility that allows owners of Intel-based Macs to install Windows. Unfortunately, it’s still not possible to run Windows 11 on ARM natively on Apple Silicon Macs. “Parallels Desktop version 18 is an authorized solution for running Arm versions of Windows 11 Pro and Windows 11 Enterprise in a virtual environment on its platform on Apple M1 and M2 computers,” the company explained. Well, fast forward to 2023, Microsoft now says that there are two supported options for running Windows 11 on a Mac: Windows 365 and Parallels Desktop for Mac. Back in 2021, Parallels Desktop for Mac 17 was the first version of the virtualization software to add support for Windows 11 on macOS, though Microsoft said at the time that it was “not a supported scenario.” Microsoft has finally recognized Parallels Desktop for Mac as a supported solution for running Windows 11 on ARM on Apple Silicon Macs.

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