How to install USB Blaster ii drivers for Parallels 18 (Windows 11) running on MacBook M1?

[NaGPT]

I am working with the DE10 Nano kit for my current project.
I have installed Quartus Prime Lite Edition (22.1std.0.915) inside Parallel Desktop 18 (Win 11) running on MacBook M1 (Ventura). I could compile the projects but faced issues deploying them to the FPGA. 

The Hardware Setup does not detect the DE-SoC (USB-1) as indicated in how-to-program-your-first-fpga-device. The device Manager of Parallels-Win11 shows an unknown device with a yellow icon. It appeared that it was looking for USB Blaster-ii drivers. I have not been able to find suitable drivers for ARM64. I receive the prompt "Windows was unable to install your Unknown Device" for all the drivers I tried from the internet. The drivers present inside the quartus/drivers/usb-blaster-ii directory also have the same problem. I believe that all those drivers are possibly incompatible with the Win11+MacM1 system. It could well be OS & Driver problem than the Quartus problem.

Any proven workaround suggestions would be really appreciated.

[NurAiman_M_Intel]

Hi,

-Are you using USB Blaster I or USB Blaster II?

-Do you have another good working USB Blaster to test?

-Can you try to connect the current USB Blaster to another board?

Regards,

Aiman

[NurAiman_M_Intel]

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