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I guess that Parallels wouldn't spend engineering resources without some agreements from Microsoft. I, personally, need properly virtualized x86 Windows. Might

I guess that Parallels wouldn't spend engineering resources without some agreements from Microsoft. I, personally, need properly virtualized x86 Windows. Might be slow, whatever, even Windows XP is enough for me. Without x86 Windows I would need to rent a VM and that's a nuisance. Is it possible to just directly run qemu in some kind of emulation mode? I know that docker runs x86 containers, so there should be some way. Emulating x86 is one thing that stops me from ordering Macbook.

cassianoleal 5y ago
Both Docker Desktop and Podman Machine run emulated x86 machines via QEMU. I never tried to run Windows on it but I imagine it's doable. I have no idea about performance though.
ghaff 5y ago
If Windows on x86 were important to me, there's no way I would be using some unsupported emulation. Even if I wanted Apple Silicon for some other reason, I'd still just run a Windows x86 laptop (or server) for applications where it's needed.