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Have you tried Parallels? It works incredibly well on the M1 macs. https://www.parallels.com/ https://www.parallels.com/

by gzer0 5y ago

hughrr 5y ago
Also UTM if you are a cheap ass like me. https://github.com/utmapp/UTM https://github.com/utmapp/UTM I use native virtualisation to run Debian arm64 and emulation to run Debian x86-64
- temac 5y ago
  Quite slow and not multicore for x64-64 though. It eventually works, but you better take a spare PC for any non trivial task.
  - hughrr 5y ago
    I usually just run one in AWS when I need one if I'm honest.
nebula8804 5y ago
They may be referring to the Non-Arm Windows. Let me tell you Parallels running Windows ARM is the snappiest Windows experience I have had in years....only problem is that its Windows 11 :/ Really wish there was someway to easily run Windows 7 or 8 on this thing. It would be bliss. Now that Windows XP Source has been leaked, maybe we can come together as a community, try to harden the OS and make it forward compatible with ARM. Bring back the Windows that people actually somewhat liked! If only that wasn't a monumental task :/
- FireBeyond 5y ago
  It'd also be extremely problematic, akin to the challenges of clean room implementations, to build software around leaked source code.
duskwuff 5y ago
ARM versions of Parallels can only run ARM VMs. They can't run x86 VMs. Parallels' marketing site does not make this very clear.
ejb999 5y ago
Yes, but AFAIK, M1's will not support emulation of x86 based regardless of software vendor - and unfortunately, I still have to run some old VM's several times a week - include a very old Windows XP environment, and I don't think anyone's in any rush to support that anytime soon. Who knows, maybe get a Mac studio for my Mac work, and keep my MacBook Pro for when I need to run non-arm VM's
- azinman2 5y ago
  Why wouldn’t it support it? Rosetta is built to do exactly that?
  - olliej 5y ago
    rosetta emulates/translates at the app layer, it's a much easier problem than system level emulation, for a wide variety of reasons. So you'd need a VM running windows/arm64, and then windows would have to use its rosetta equivalent to run the x86 binaries

Have you tried Parallels? It works incredibly well on the M1 macs. https://www.parallels.com/ https://www.parallels.com/

by gzer0 5y ago

Have you tried Parallels? It works incredibly well on the M1 macs. https://www.parallels.com/ https://www.parallels.com/

hughrr 5y ago

Also UTM if you are a cheap ass like me. https://github.com/utmapp/UTM https://github.com/utmapp/UTM I use native virtualisation to run Debian arm64 and emulation to run Debian x86-64

temac 5y ago
Quite slow and not multicore for x64-64 though. It eventually works, but you better take a spare PC for any non trivial task.
- hughrr 5y ago
  I usually just run one in AWS when I need one if I'm honest.

nebula8804 5y ago

They may be referring to the Non-Arm Windows. Let me tell you Parallels running Windows ARM is the snappiest Windows experience I have had in years....only problem is that its Windows 11 :/ Really wish there was someway to easily run Windows 7 or 8 on this thing. It would be bliss. Now that Windows XP Source has been leaked, maybe we can come together as a community, try to harden the OS and make it forward compatible with ARM. Bring back the Windows that people actually somewhat liked! If only that wasn't a monumental task :/

FireBeyond 5y ago
It'd also be extremely problematic, akin to the challenges of clean room implementations, to build software around leaked source code.

duskwuff 5y ago

ARM versions of Parallels can only run ARM VMs. They can't run x86 VMs. Parallels' marketing site does not make this very clear.

ejb999 5y ago

Yes, but AFAIK, M1's will not support emulation of x86 based regardless of software vendor - and unfortunately, I still have to run some old VM's several times a week - include a very old Windows XP environment, and I don't think anyone's in any rush to support that anytime soon. Who knows, maybe get a Mac studio for my Mac work, and keep my MacBook Pro for when I need to run non-arm VM's

azinman2 5y ago
Why wouldn’t it support it? Rosetta is built to do exactly that?
- olliej 5y ago
  rosetta emulates/translates at the app layer, it's a much easier problem than system level emulation, for a wide variety of reasons. So you'd need a VM running windows/arm64, and then windows would have to use its rosetta equivalent to run the x86 binaries