

I would pay every penny to get my all tweaked and ready to use Windows XP parallels image running on my new MacBook Pro 14" and Mac OS X Monterey. In my case Intonation trainer for example. there are some great legacy applications, which are still very useful and run on legacy OS as Windows XP only. The only way (beside the time wasting procedure to rebuild every of those thousand of files one by one) is open them on the same system running the same version of Finale to edit, print or save as pdf. In the case of Linux, all you have to do is click the play button and your VM will begin. Select the UTM file you downloaded and it will be imported.

Click Download to save the configuration to disk, then open UTM and click File > Import Virtual Machine. I created thousands of files using notation program Finale, using old and incompatible fonts even with newer versions of Finale, not talking about newer operating systems. Simply head to the Gallery page and select the VM you would like to install. I used Windows ten years from 1991 till 2001.

Mac OS X has an unresolved problem with old fonts. So until I am not able to run Win XP on my new hardware and OS, I have to keep my older machines and pray, that they last long. It will take much longer to get it in usable form (with all legacy applications installed and tweaked) than to migrate a parallels image, specially because of learning curve of the UTM. I have just installed Windows XP on my new MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro chhipset) using UTM.
