4 ms·
Parallels and VMWare will just abandon their primary market? No they won't.
by Bud 9y ago
Parallels and VMWare will just abandon their primary market?
No they won't.
- 0x0 9y agoMaybe not Parallels, but VMWare Fusion always seemed like a skunkworks side-project that almost got killed off at least once. Their cash cow is enterprise hypervisors, not $60 consumer windows emulation, unfortunately. (Fusion has been serving me very well for windows and .NET development purposes so far)
- huebnerob 9y agoThey can try, but you can't get blood from a stone. Emulating x86 on ARM is going to give you grotesquely low performance, it's arguably not even the same category of problem that they currently solve (virtualization, not emulation). One thing they could run with is ARM-on-ARM virtualization, which is a more direct (heh) parallel to what they do on Intel now, but ARM hypervisors are less mature, and their practical applications, less readily apparent.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoDidn't Parallels start off with an Intel emulation before Apple switched to x86.
- huebnerob 9y agoThere was "Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac" which was x86 emulation for PowerPC but performance was abysmal.
- hug 9y agoVMWare's primary market is not Fusion. VMWare's primary market is vSphere -- and you don't run vSphere on a MacBook.