Oracle Virtualbox in ARM based Macs and x64 Windows

[boppin]

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!

 

[startergo]

UTM will emulate them.

 

[maflynn]

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.

 

[boppin]

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.

 

[salamanderjuice]

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.

 

[startergo]

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.

GitHub - kjliew/qemu-3dfx: MESA GL/3Dfx Glide pass-through for QEMU

MESA GL/3Dfx Glide pass-through for QEMU. Contribute to kjliew/qemu-3dfx development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

I have created a Homebrew tap for it:

qemu-3dfx-macos/README-BUILD.md at master · startergo/qemu-3dfx-macos

Contribute to startergo/qemu-3dfx-macos development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[boppin]

Trying to install Windows XP x64 Edition but failed on Apple's M4 chip. So sad. Oracle VirtualBox does only to support Windows on ARM. So no longer very old software written 25 years ago. I hope they will fix it. So I can try to test my useless test to assign 8 GB RAM to that virtual machine. But honestly? If you really have a need to allocate so much memory, why don't you buy a real Windows PC? My cousin does this a year before.

 

[pshufd]

Hello,

Thanks for your replies.


What is this?


I always liked Virtualbox using under 10.15 Catalina. Quiet happy with it. It is perfectly sufficient for my purposes.

Oracle likes to make money, and, if they could make money on an open source project, they would certainly try to.