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boppin

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Jun 14, 2008
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Hi there,

Does someone uses here Oracle's Virtualbox? And if yes, will it run x64 and x32 Bit Windows on ARM based Macs? I read in there forums that these isn't the case. Thanks!
 
Does someone uses here Oracle's Virtualbox? And if yes,
I can't say if you can run windows, but I can say its probably the worst performing products for virtualization. I would look to other products well before considering virtualbox.
 
Hello,

Thanks for your replies.

UTM will emulate them.
What is this?

I can't say if you can run windows, but I can say its probably the worst performing products for virtualization. I would look to other products well before considering virtualbox.
I always liked Virtualbox using under 10.15 Catalina. Quiet happy with it. It is perfectly sufficient for my purposes.
 
Hi there,

Does someone uses here Oracle's Virtualbox? And if yes, will it run x64 and x32 Bit Windows on ARM based Macs? I read in there forums that these isn't the case. Thanks!
It won't. VirtualBox isn't an emulator. UTM as startergo said will. Keep in mind that will be slow. You can also run most x64 and x86 Windows programs on ARM64 Windows through the translation layer built into Windows.
 
What is this?
UTM is a wrapper for Qemu. User friendly interface for Qemu. Emulating Windows XP Will not sacrifice much speed. There is also a Qemu fork that can run 3d acceleration and many old games in Windows 98, 2000, XP.
I have created a Homebrew tap for it:
 
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