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I expect to see commercial solutions for both- maybe not from Parallels or VMWare (Parallels has indicated that their intended main path forward is ARM virtualization, and VMWare's likely to take whatever the least-effort path is as they don't really give a crap about desktop virtualization at the corporate strategy level), but, if there's a market for it at all, someone will fill that niche. I am sure that neither Parallels or VMware have given up on this, but as already mentioned Windows on ARM already has x86 emulation built in, and Parallels has ARM support in testing. Switching from virtualizing x86/圆4 on x86/圆4 to emulating x86/圆4 on ARM is a very nontrivial task. Reason #671 why the pain of architecture transitions ultimately comes to rest on the end user. So they're all just going to wait and see who blinks first. And there's no guarantee that if they started down that road, that investment wouldn't be rendered obsolete if at some point Microsoft does relent.

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That way they could stay the course on developing and maintaining virtualization software rather than wading into the complex coding investment of emulation. I think what VMWare and Parallels would really, really like to see is Microsoft grant them OEM licenses to re-sell Windows ARM, or go all the way and allow end users to buy single licenses.

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The ARM version of Windows 10 has x86 emulation built-in.

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I wonder this because basically I manage my financial software in a VM because it doesn't exist for Mac and it appears I'm out of options for that and am quite annoyed. Actual x86 emulation in a VM on Apple Silicon. I'm not talking about ARM versions of Windows or whatever. Is emulating x86 in a virtual machine on Apple SiliconĬ) possible but no one wants to do it and therefore they are just not trying Every little bit of performance helps.Įver since Apple Silicon and VMWare and Parallels deciding to just give up, I've been wondering: I have mitigations off for the Windows 10 VM I'm using to play games. I currently have them OFF as don’t think it’s an issue for the Mojave VM, and the BootCamp VM is rarely used (and it’s slow enough with disk buffering off). This will slow down the VM but at least it works.Ī question for you guys - SideChannel Mitigations on or off? VMWare nagged me about them until I stopped it. Creating & running a VM from Boot Camp will fail unless you turn off disk buffering (IIRC) in Advanced Options. VMWare community chatter suggests this has been broken for about a year and no fix is in sight.

Creating a VM from my System Restore partition. a Windows 10 quasi-VM from my Boot Camp. Nice and small and runs 32bit apps and tests any suspicious files. a Mojave VM created from the Apple Store Mojave installer. That’ll save me some ssd space.Īll working fine (almost) here on Big Sur with 2 VMs Most affordable KVM switches I’ve seen are trash and the well-built ones are rarely happy to work cross-platform & USB.I didn’t know the free version offered snapshots.

Guess I need to find a usable USB KVM switch, soon. It would be nice if Apple at least sold a standalone display, so that when I finally can buy a new gaming PC (GPU shortages & pricing are insane), I don’t ALSO need to have TWO displays on my already-crowded desk. Result: own two computers again (consoles can bite my shiny metal ass). Now Apple is moving away from Macs even being able to run intel Windows software at all. Sadly, there hasn’t been a suitable desktop Mac in almost a decade (GPU, heat, etc). The setup didn’t need to be 100% equal to a Windows PC in performance, just be comparable.

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It used to be that we could have a Mac for both Mac OS and Windows. Unfortunately, gaming on Macs is nowhere near the level of gaming on Windows. Sounds simple to you, doesn’t it? Thing is, I don’t want to have TWO computers to maintain. If you need to run Windows then buy a Windows PC.

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