The point is, until now i was able to do all my work (developing, testing etc.) with one macbook pro. So, at the end of this huge effort, i will have a brand new win11 arm developer VM on which the old stuff not work, and alle the Test VM's will also not run. Some of the older stuff will not run on win11 arm. I have to buy a win 11 licence and set up a new developer VM for me. So i am sitting here now with a new macbook pro and no of my old VM's is running.

So i implicit assumed that all my older VM's will run on the new macbook pro now and i went ahead to buy one. Then parallels sendet me a advertisement mail: 'Parallels is running now on apple m1 chip'. Done in under one hour and i was ready to work.īecause of that the new macbook pro had a M1 arm chip, i waited to buy a new one because parallels was working to address this.

I owned some other MacBook Pro's before, and switching from the old to the new MacBook was very easy: Installing Parallels, copying the VM to the new MacBook and hit run.

For building OSX programs, i run the IDE on the Win VM and remote compile and debug the program on the mac.įor testing purposes i have a lot additional Parallel VM's with different Windows versions and OSX Versions, all of them created with the x86 Macbook Pro. The IDE runs only in windows, so i have a 'developer' parallels x86 VM (win 10, Delphi, SQL server, Visual studio etc.).

I use mostly 'embarcdero Rad Studio Delphi' for this. I develop applications for mac osx (and also for other platforms like windows, iOS and Adroid).

Virtualbox for mac m1 chip