(2020-11-20, 21:03)Orion Pobursky Wrote: Parallels has confirmed support for Big Sur and the A1 chip. When I was on MacOS I used VMWare Fusion. Both require a Windows license but you can get those for <$40.
The Parallels (and VMWare Fusion) support for the M1 chip almost certainly won't run Windows (unless Microsoft starts selling Arm Windows to end users). They will only support Arm-based operating systems, like Arm Linux. Arm Windows is currently only available to Arm system builders.