Parallels on Tuesday released a second Technical Preview of its virtualization software for M1-equipped Macs.
The updated Technical Preview includes new features and enhancements, including support for deactivating and restarting a virtual machine, support for the installation of Parallel Devices in several Linux distributions, and automated detection of compatible Linux installation images.
Additionally, the update improves the overall stability of Parallels on Apple Silicon and captures a few known issues with the previous version.
Like the first Technical Preview, there are still limitations here. Users can only install ARM-based operating systems and ARM32 applications are not supported.
Parallels will be able to run the ARM version of Windows that is available through Microsoft ‘s Windows Insider program. Currently, however, there is no public version of Windows available for ARM.
If you have a Mac M1, you can request access to the Technical Preview here.