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For a long time FreeBSD did not work on EC2 or in Virtualbox, which is where this comes from and why it's relevant.

And now I have FreeBSD 14 (13 won't boot and the issue is only fixed in -current) running in Parallels on my Apple Silicon MacBook Pro... works well.

Is the VM running arm64 or amd64?

arm64

Otherwise it would be emulation not virtualization. Parallels on Apple Silicon only works with arm64 VMs.

But that's pretty much everything I care about. I have Windows 11, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, several Linux distributions. They all work fine.

I thought M1 silicon could run amd64/x86_64 efficiently via Rosetta, due to changing the memory ordering model to an x86 one. I was hoping that Parallels could somehow take advantage of that.

Yeah I don’t think it can do that, unfortunately.

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