
If you want a plain image right to start: Download VM, for login information please look at the Readme Parallels tools Overview You can use the archboot aarch64 images to install a VM as you like it. Parallels Desktop on an Apple Mac M1 and higher In addition to the instructions below, there is an installation guide for Arch Linux in Parallels Knowledgebase. Parallels Desktop on an Apple Mac x86_64 hardware If you do not wish to use Parallels tools, installation is as simple as choosing "other linux" when creating a new virtual machine and proceeding as you would on any real machine.

This means the installation of Parallels tools have not been tested by the vendor, and requires some manual intervention to work under Arch.

Parallels Desktop supports Linux guests out of the box, but only offers support for a few Linux distributions - excluding Arch Linux. A more complete description on virtualization can be found at Wikipedia.

Parallels Desktop is a hypervisor for macOS which allows users to install a variety of operating systems as "virtual machines" (guests) on the host system, reducing the need for managing multiple physical machines.
