…also every time Apple releases a new OS (i.e. annually) the current version of Parallels quite often doesn’t work, so you might as well do the subscription thing and get to use more cores, etc.
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That’s what they say… BUT I’m using parallels 15 on Monterey without an issue.
-Karen
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How is it limited?
CPU cores you can use, Memory (the memory limit you likely wont hit´). But worse of all is the networking limitations.
I guess for the development of your plugins you would need access to more than 4 cores but a 4 core limit is probably enough for most users. The only network limitations I can see are on the number of network adapters a VM can have.
I switched from VMWare Fusion because the shared folder performance was so bad. While trying to fix the issue I can across a forum posting where a VMWare developer for the feature admitting that its bad and that he isn’t allowed time to fix it )-:
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I did a quick test with GitHub - insidegui/VirtualBuddy: Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon (which is open source) and it currently seems better than Parallels or Fusion for running Apple Silicon macOS VMs on a M1 or M2 mac.
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Parallels (and I assume Fusion) both just use the same macOS virtual machine classes that VirtualBuddy uses: Apple Developer Documentation. You could run a VM app in Xojo using these classes if you wanted.
Oh do these APIs mean there’s going to be a wall of shovelware VM software on the horizon?
Probably not, as they’ll all be pretty similar.