Omarchy for Parallels on Apple Silicon

Omarchy 4 "Quattro" as a ready-to-run VM for Apple Silicon Macs (M1–M4) — the full Hyprland + Quickshell Arch desktop with native HiDPI, live window-resize, and a 60-second first boot. One command, no dual-boot, no bare-metal risk, on every Parallels edition including the free trial — so you can test-drive Omarchy for two weeks with no spare hardware.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/azilnik/omarchy-apple-silicon-parallels/main/install.sh | bash

Pick YOLO at the prompt (or pass --yolo) and the next thing you touch is the Omarchy desktop.

What you get

• Omarchy 4 (Quattro) on Arch Linux ARM — Hyprland 0.56, Quickshell, SDDM, the full theme system
• Native HiDPI matched to your Retina display, and a desktop that follows the Parallels window as you resize it
• Omarchy's x86-only apps, rebuilt for ARM: omacalc, omawrite, omacut, ttfx, tobi-try, the Hyprland share picker, and Obsidian (from source)
• First-boot setup — username/password/hostname, or a 10-second countdown to sensible defaults
• Verifiable: omarchy-parallels-verify inside the VM prints a green/red health report

Install

Requirements: Apple Silicon Mac (M1–M4+), Parallels Desktop (any edition), ~25 GB free.

The one-liner above downloads, verifies, imports, and boots. Prefer manual? Grab the image from the releases manifest, verify the checksum, unzip into ~/Parallels, double-click Omarchy.pvm (choose Copied if asked), then set View → Retina Resolution → More Space.

First things to know

• Super is ⌘ Cmd. Menu is Cmd+Space; terminal is Cmd+Ctrl+Return (Parallels keeps Cmd+Return for fullscreen). Full map + how to get native bindings back: docs/keybindings.md.
• Default login on the YOLO path is omarchy / omarchy — run passwd to change it.

Security & provenance

• Every release ships a sha256 + minisign signature and the installer verifies both (key: minisign.pub). The image is served from Cloudflare R2 (GitHub caps assets at 2 GiB), but the GitHub-hosted checksum and signature are what you trust — not the host.
• Built solely by the public scripts in build/ from a stock Archboot aarch64 base plus the omarchy-arm port (audited: no curl | bash, no eval, no install hooks). Rebuild it yourself: docs/rebuild-from-iso.md.
• Sysprepped: no SSH/host keys, no machine-id, no credentials or shell history — first boot regenerates identity, and SSH is off by default.
• Parallels Tools (userspace only) runs under your licensed Parallels; a Tools-free rebuild path is in the docs.
• Report a vulnerability · AI disclosure — built by AI under human direction.

Known limitations

• No GPU acceleration — Parallels' virtio-gpu is software-rendered for Linux ARM guests. Fine for real use; don't judge animation polish here.
• omarchy-update prints a harmless keyring error on ARM (omarchy-keyring is x86-only); the update still works.
• A few x86-only packages are deliberately skipped (asdcontrol, obs-studio, pinta) — see docs/arm-limitations.md.
• Verified on M3 (Studio Display); reports from other machines welcome — see test/VERIFY.md.

Uninstall & license

./host/uninstall.sh removes it. Scripts and docs are MIT; Omarchy, Arch Linux ARM, and Parallels Tools keep their own licenses.