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Apple’s new MacBook Neo, with its A18 Pro chip and just 8GB of RAM, is good enough for running Windows 11 in a virtual machine with Parallel
Apple’s new MacBook Neo, with its A18 Pro chip and just 8GB of RAM, is good enough for running Windows 11 in a virtual machine with Parallels Desktop for Mac.
Parallels Desktop for Mac 26 is out with support for the upcoming macOS 26 Taohe, Windows 11 version 25H2, and accurate Mac disk visibility
Parallels Desktop for Mac 26 is out with support for the upcoming macOS 26 Taohe, Windows 11 version 25H2, and accurate Mac disk visibility in Windows VMs.
Parallels Desktop for Mac 20.3 is making macOS virtual machines easier to use on Apple Silicon Macs thanks to USB device support.
Parallels Desktop for Mac 20.3 is making macOS virtual machines easier to use on Apple Silicon Macs thanks to USB device support.
La Evolución de las Máquinas Virtuales: Del Concepto a la Columna Vertebral de la Ciberseguridad Moderna
En el mundo dinámico de la tecnología de la información, pocas innovaciones han tenido un impacto tan transformador como las máquinas virtuales (VM). Desde sus humildes inicios en los laboratorios de investigación hasta convertirse en un pilar fundamental de la infraestructura de TI y la ciberseguridad, las máquinas virtuales han revolucionado la forma en que las organizaciones gestionan y…
A new update for Parallels Desktop for Mac 20 is adding support for Intel-based virtual machines on Apple Silicon Macs.
A new update for Parallels Desktop for Mac 20 is adding support for Intel-based virtual machines on Apple Silicon Macs.
Parallels Desktop Installer
In my continued investigation of Jamf NOW's App Installers I have learned some interesting things about the Parallels installer. As you'd expect the DMG contains the actual application as a hidden file.
The interesting question is how do you install the application without the GUI. It turns out that you need to use: inittool from /Volumes/Parallels Desktop $version/Parallels Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS. inittool is just a shell script that calls inittool2. inittool2 does the heavy lifting.
If we look at how Jamf implements their App Installer they mount the DMG and then calls: inittool install -t $path_to_target -s. We can break down the command:
inittool calls inittool2 using exec which handles the actual arguments.
-t gives the target of where you want to put the final installed application.
-s says to start the services post installation.
These flags are not documented, but you can find the information through strings to a certain extent–better option is to use something like Binary Ninja on inittool2 to extract that information.
A quick note on the way Jamf does this: they have their normal LaunchDaemon run script, but this calls a subscript call postinstall which actually mounts the DMG and then calls inittool.
I will of course note that if you are deploying this in an enterprise context you are better off using something like Parallels Mass Deployment tooling. This is how I have deployed Parallels typically. You can see the sort of method I used here.
Parallels Desktop for ChromeOS, which hasn't received any big new features in two years, will reportedly be discontinued before the end of 2
Parallels Desktop for ChromeOS, a Windows virtualization platform for ChromeOS will reportedly be discontinued before the end of the year.
Parallels Desktop for Mac 20 is ready for the upcoming release of macOS Sequoia and Windows 11 version 24H2, and x86 Windows apps should get
Parallels Desktop for Mac 20 is ready for the upcoming release of macOS Sequoia and Windows 11 version 24H2, and x86 Windows apps should get an up to 80% performance boost on Windows 11 on ARM VMs thanks to Microsoft's new Prism emulator.
