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Can this run a container of windows on Mac M1?

• thefourthchime 6y ago
  You can run Windows For ARM on M1 Macs right now, I doubt you can get docker to do this without lots of manual effort.
  • gigatexal 6y ago
    Got a link to proof of this?
    • deleted 6y ago
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    • my123 6y ago
      https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg766282.html https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg766282... for the Qemu patches and https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewARM64 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsins... for downloading the Windows build
      • dalacv 6y ago
        Question, is there persistence with that? Or are changes lost once it is closed?
        • BillinghamJ 6y ago
          I've been using the ACVM app with. Windows 10 VMDK file. Changes are indeed persisted to the VMDK
• my123 6y ago
  No nested virtualisation present currently, as such no virtualization support provided to VMs, so on Windows on an M1 only WSL1 works. Docker Linux containers on Windows require WSL2 instead. Docker Windows containers aren't available on arm64 Windows yet, but stay tuned...
• jsjohnst 6y ago
  Can you run a container of Windows on an x86 machine? The answer is no, and for the same reason it won’t work on ARM. A “container” is not a virtual machine, you can only run the same Linux executables you would on a normal Linux system. That said, as another person commented, you can run Windows for ARM in a VM on an Apple M1.