Apr 21, 2007 The Parallels application itself MUST be installed on the startup drive. The virtual machines can be installed on any connected drive. The VM is just a set of Mac OSX files. Hi, Environment is MacBook Pro running Mojave and using ATI for Mac 2019 (build 23.3.14170). I am running Parallels VM's with some VM's located on internal storage and some on a Samsung T5 external SSD.
I have a 2017 mac book pro with Thunderbolt ports. I am also a heavy user of parallels. As far as I understood parallels are using some kind of a video processing to send the image to the operating system. ( hypothesis )
If I use an external graphics card would that result in performance boost? Or is it not worth the investment?
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MacOS does support use of external GPUs (in High Sierra), but at this time, they do not support any performance boost for your MacBook Pro screen, only for external monitors.
As for whether Parallels can use this eGPU, check out their tech note (dated 9/11/2017) on this.
From the note:
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So, you won't receive any acceleration on your MBPro screen by using an eGPU. However, you may see increased performance on an external monitor connected to the eGPU.
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