Run mission editor only?

I am running Windows 10 in a virtual environment (Parallels Desktop) on my Mac, with 8 GB of RAM. I've installed DCS World in that virtual Win 10 instance but it won't run -- it displays the initial DCS World logo screen, and then dies without error.

I'm not wanting to fly in my virtual Win 10 instance, just use it as a place to create and edit missions during breaks at work. I would then fly those missions on my main dedicated Windows 10 machine at home (which runs DCS just fine).

Is there a way to only edit missions and not have all the rest of DCS World attached? I've assumed that my virtual Win 10 instance isn't beefy enough (it's running with 8 GB of RAM but I'm not sure the rest of it meets the minimum specs required by DCS World).

You can run DCS on a Mac, but not using virtual machines ... use the BootCamp utility that Apple provides, you will have to set aside a partition on your Mac HDD and will have to restart the Mac each time you want to use DCS, but it does work:

This is the iMac of my signature, back when I didnt had a gaming PC for DCS :)

I'm familiar with Boot Camp but that won't work for me. I need to be able to switch between DCS mission editing and real work in my native Mac apps. You know, 'multitasking' ;-)

Apparently DCS World 2.x requires DirectX 11, which Parallels Desktop for Mac does not currently support (Win 10 client/Mac host). So, as far as I can tell, it's not possible to do this as a virtual machine.

A quick update. The latest version of Parallels Desktop (Mac host) supports Direct X for Windows 10, allowing DCS World 2.5.x to run succesfully.

It's slow, but it runs.