![]() There’s a lot of integration with macOS here.Once Windows 10 starts for the first time on your M1 Mac in Parallels Desktop, you’ll see a message that it was successful.If you went with default settings, you’ll start off with a local Windows account. Because of the options I chose, Parallels is going to take me into the out-of-box-experience.Once you’re done, you’re ready to spin up your Windows 10 VM!.That’s going to let you decide which of your M1 Mac’s resources to allocate to the Windows 10 VM. You can change this stuff later, but keep an eye on the Hardware tab. Like any virtualization software, you can change any resources you want.Next, you’ll see your VM configuration, and there’s a Configure button to change settings for it.After that, you’ll get a progress bar saying that the Windows 10 VM is being created on your Apple Silicon Mac.Next, you’ll choose where you want to save the Windows VM on your Mac.Parallels will adjust the resources the VM will use on your Mac depending on what answer you pick here. Now, it’s going to ask what you’re going to use Windows 10 for. Otherwise, skip to the next step that looks like what you see below. The next few steps only show up if you chose to install Windows manually.I checked it here just to show more options. You can probably leave that option to “Install operating system manually” unchecked, as I did the first couple of times I went through this process. After you’ve selected your image, you’ll get a confirmation that you’re about to install Windows 10 on your Mac.It automatically searches files on your computer, so if you have a lot of images, you might have to choose manually. After choosing Windows, it’s going to ask you where to get your installation image from.For this tutorial, we’re focusing on Windows 10, but the process for Linux should be similar. You’ll quickly see that while Windows is the main option, there are a variety of Linux choices as well. That’s going to bring you to a page asking what you want to create.You’ll land on a screen that tells you that you can’t run an x86 OS on an ARM PC. Just open the installation file, click the button to install it, and follow the very few instructions that appear. What to do to run Windows 10 on Apple Silicon You can purchase one on Amazon here, or you can buy one through the Microsoft Store. ![]() These are really made to be run in Hyper-V VMs, so since Hyper-V on ARM is still in preview, so is the VHDX image.
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