Trying to install Proxmox in Parallels on MacBook Pro M1

[Felix Pastron]

I have a MacBook Pro M1 (silicon chip) running Parallels Desktop app. I'm trying to create a Proxmox VM within Parallels, but not having any luck.

I've read that Proxmox is not compatible with silicon chip, but wondering if there's anything I can do to make this work. Thank you for any input.

 

[leesteken]

You need to emulate an 64-bit x86 processor for Proxmox VE, as that is the currently only supported platform. Does Parallels do that? Maybe you can try 64-bit x86 Debian 12 first and install Proxmox on top of it?

 

[Felix Pastron]

Thanks for your quick reply. It does look like Parallels offers an Ubuntu 22 x86 64-bit emulation version.

What do you mean by "install Proxmox on top of it" ?

 

[leesteken]

What do you mean by "install Proxmox on top of it" ?

If you have trouble with the Proxmox installer, you can first install Debian and then install Proxmox from within Debian.

 

[LnxBil]

You can try UTM and emulate PVE there. It uses the Apple internal virtualization infrastructure, so that you have a free alternative to Parallels, VMware Fusion and VirtualBox. I just installed PVE 8 without any problems on my M2.

 

[meanaverage]

You can try UTM and emulate PVE there. It uses the Apple internal virtualization infrastructure, so that you have a free alternative to Parallels, VMware Fusion and VirtualBox. I just installed PVE 8 without any problems on my M2.

Hmm. Interesting. Are you able to run Mac OS as a guest with pass through?

 

[davidkreasisolusindo]

You can try UTM and emulate PVE there. It uses the Apple internal virtualization infrastructure, so that you have a free alternative to Parallels, VMware Fusion and VirtualBox. I just installed PVE 8 without any problems on my M2.

I'm able to emulate PVE 8.2 on UTM 4.3.5 without any issue, but unable to run any vm on PVE.
"Guest has not initialized the display (yet)."
Did you @LnxBil able to test running any vm on it?

 

[LnxBil]

Hmm. Interesting. Are you able to run Mac OS as a guest with pass through?

With UTM2 it should work, with PVE running MacOs ... no.

I'm able to emulate PVE 8.2 on UTM 4.3.5 without any issue, but unable to run any vm on PVE.
"Guest has not initialized the display (yet)."
Did you @LnxBil able to test running any vm on it?

It shows the same error. This could be due to the missing nested hypervisor support

 

[Pato_77]

You can try UTM and emulate PVE there. It uses the Apple internal virtualization infrastructure, so that you have a free alternative to Parallels, VMware Fusion and VirtualBox. I just installed PVE 8 without any problems on my M2.

Hi,
You've installed proxmox in UTM on your Mac M2. How did you solve the "no support for hardware accelerated KVM Virtualization Detected" error?
(Intel VT / AMD-V / SVM)

 

[alexskysilk]

How did you solve the "no support for hardware accelerated KVM Virtualization Detected" error?

Thats likely not solvable. while the parent hypervisor can emulate an x86 processor it cant provide services that the parent CPU doesnt have.

 

[Pato_77]

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Thats likely not solvable. while the parent hypervisor can emulate an x86 processor it cant provide services that the parent CPU doesnt have.

OK, thought so too.
How did you get an IP from your router to work? I only get some 192.168.100.x. DHCP I can't get this to work either... My network is on IP 192.168.4.X

 

[leesteken]

192.168.100.2 is a default which means that DHCP failed. Proxmox does not really support DHCP out of the box. Just give it a static IP address inside your local network 192.168.4.0/24 but make sure it is outside of the DHCP range because most routers don't like that. The DHCP failure could also mean that the network device is not supported or not connected or bad cable...