According to the developers, “Since WWDC, our new version of Parallels Desktop which runs on Mac with Apple M1 chip has made tremendous progress. There is no word from other developers of virtualization software if they’ll be developing an M1 version as well, so for now it looks like Parallels will be the only one. There’s no word on when this new M1-supported version of Parallels will be released, but if you do rely quite a bit on Parallels, then this is good news. The company has announced that they are working on this new software designed for the M1, so it should be noted that the current version of Parallels will not work on Apple’s new Mac computers. However, there is some good news on that front, in which Parallels has announced that they’ll be developing a new version of their software that will support Apple’s new M1 chipset. There were some limitations, such as how Rosetta 2 would not work with Virtual Machine apps that virtualize x86_64 platforms, which meant that tools like Boot Camp and Parallels, which is one of the more popular programs that people use to run Windows apps on macOS, would not work. When Apple Silicon was first unveiled earlier this year, it was revealed that to help developers make the transition, they would release the Rosetta 2 translation software that would allow x86 apps to run on their chipset.
