Windows 11 has pretty high system requirements – including the need for a special security chip known as TPM 2.0 – but Parallels 17 includes a virtual TPM chip that will work with Windows 11 and its BitLocker data encryption features.
before deciding to install it completely on your Mac. It’s also possible to run Monterey both as a host – the primary operating system on your Mac – and as a guest virtual machine (VM), which means you can test Monterey as a VM. Parallels still schedules its updates for Parallels Desktop to coincide with Apple’s own updates for macOS, but this year Microsoft is also releasing a major new version of Windows.
