Fedora 44ARM / Parallels VM on Mac

[SilverBack]

Hello All,

Have been using Fedora 44ARM on my Mac via a Parallels VM. Everything seems to work well. Anyone else here using a Mac/Parallels VM to run Fedora on your Mac? I'm using the recommended 2 processors and 16GB of RAM for my VM - overkill? Thanks in advance for sharing.

V/r,
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[Rocketing-warp9]

I also run Fedora ARM on a Mac mini, but on Vbox. I can't go over 4 gigs of ram on it (only 8 gig mini) macOS kills Vbox when you start to press into its space sadly. As soon as it fills up, kills the task and aborts the VM. 16 seems fine, however as you do have the space. I have to check, as I might have 4 cores enabled to squeeze all I can outa it.

 

[dos2unix]

I don't have a Mac, but both my friends who do.. just run Fedora Asahi.
One of them never runs Mac OS, the other has a dual boot setup.

 

[Rocketing-warp9]

I'm winding up with a 16GB pro, and was thinking on doing that with Alshi as well. Seems good!

 

[SilverBack]

@Rocketing-warp9, @dos2unix,

Thanks for your respective responses. FWIW, Fedora 43 was an available Linux distro that was part of the Parallels installation. Also tried Ubuntu, but when I discovered Linus Torvalds preferred Fedora, I thought if Fedora is good enough for the Kernel-Master, it's more than good enough for me - an I am NOT trying to compile anything! Anyway, my M1 Pro, MBP has a 10 core processor and 32 GB of RAM (couldn't help myself when I spec'd out the machine...) so I think I will increase the cores to 4 and leave the memory allocation at 16GB. Should be fine. Long term, I am hoping to ween myself off MacOS and use Fedora almost exclusively. Anyway, thanks again for sharing. Good to know someone else has gone the MacOS to Linux path ahead of me!

Cheers!
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[Rocketing-warp9]

No Problem! When It's time, if you have a Dummy VM you can see how far you can push it before MacOS bites back. When It's time and you want to go further, Then Alshi Should be just fine for that machine.