VMware's business has always(?) been about virtualization, though. They may not have the expertise to emulate another architecture, and they might not have much incentive to hire such engineers. They
do have plenty of incentive to expand to ARM virtualization.
Hm, I'm not sure what you're asking here.
What we know:
- Windows is predominantly an x86 operating system. Traditionally, almost all Windows apps run on x86 only.
- Windows also runs on ARM, but with some limitations (such as only being licensed to OEMs).
- Windows on ARM also includes an emulator for x86 apps now. So it might not actually matter that VMware has no emulation expertise; VMware would just virtualize Windows (ARM on ARM), and Microsoft would do the rest.
- Apple has shown interest in virtualizing Linux on ARM Macs, but not for virtualizing other systems.
What we don't know:
- Are there contractual hurdles, and have Apple, Corel (Parallels), VMware, Microsoft, (Qualcomm?) talked to resolve them at all?
- What is performance like?
Virtualization, when used in this context, is
not emulation.
No, that's what virtualization means: you take a physical piece of hardware and make the same piece available virtually, to share resources.