To be fair, VirtualBox is also free.
IMO, you get what you pay for. And Parallels has worked great for me.
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IMO, you get what you pay for. And Parallels has worked great for me.
Virtual Box is also developed by a huge corporaion that derives no revenue from developing it but yet pays its developers a very good salary.
Then buy a new Intel Mac while we still have them, and use the time to wait for the platforms to catch up.
erm.… I already have an Intel Mac. I’d just like to take advantage of Apple Silicon.
If you read my original post was just commenting on the lack of support for Windows not looking for solutions.
Why won’t you be able to do it with Apple Silicon? I’ve been doing just that with Apple Silicon for 9 months now. Windows and Linux work great as VMs on Apple Silicon. In fact, they work much better than they do on Intel architecture running as VMs.
Although I would agree that Windows 10 & 11 along with Ubuntu and a handful of other Linux OS’s have been running exceptionally well for me, I’m still bummed my folder of older OS’s like WinXP and Win2000 won’t work.
What x86 emulation is Parallels v17 doing? Be specific. (hint... they aren't).
From Parallels' own web site:
Windows ARM is doing the emulation. Not Parallels. Now, VMWare has said that they are not supporting Windows ARM on the preview they have in beta, but it's still not the same thing.
I’ve tried it but didn’t have much luck. That was many months ago, though. I’ll have to look into it again.You can run x86 VMs on the M1 Mac with this application:
It works better than it did before. Networking is much better, but speed and bugs are still a problem. It's almost usable.
I just tried again this weekend and I can't activate a Windows 7 instance, but speed is batter than Win10, and Win10, while works, is painful slow. An M1 MBA is not the machine to run it on though, it starts throttling almost immediately and stays running hot the whole time you have a VM going. You might still lose the cursor sometimes too.
running x86 VMs I think is the job for the upcoming pro macbooks I thinkIt works better than it did before. Networking is much better, but speed and bugs are still a problem. It's almost usable.
I just tried again this weekend and I can't activate a Windows 7 instance, but speed is batter than Win10, and Win10, while works, is painful slow. An M1 MBA is not the machine to run it on though, it starts throttling almost immediately and stays running hot the whole time you have a VM going. You might still lose the cursor sometimes too.
M1 is just the lower end, I was one of the eGPU pioneers. Great concept but already M1 is much more practical than my old Intel+eGPU setup. Much of these thinks you said are no sense, Apple Silicon runs x86 apps, Mac is not an iPad or iPhone. Let’s see what M1X has to offer and if eGPU support will makes sense again.
I guess the app has improved a lot over time! I was able to get both Windows XP and Windows 2000 installed, although I’m still having an issue getting the shared Directory to work. It’s also still just 8am here by me and I’ve only spent maybe 30 min on both.. Exciting! I’m hoping I can get some of my old DOS games working againYou can run x86 VMs on the M1 Mac with this application:
That's good to know about Win2000-- the older version I was running wouldn't work with Win2000. I'll give it a try as it runs just about all I need to run and performance should be okay.I guess the app has improved a lot over time! I was able to get both Windows XP and Windows 2000 installed, although I’m still having an issue getting the shared Directory to work. It’s also still just 8am here by me and I’ve only spent maybe 30 min on both.. Exciting! I’m hoping I can get some of my old DOS games working again
I had to use their WinXP Template, and the SPICE Tools CD they provide doesn’t work for Win2000. So I’m not sure how I’ll get a shared directory to work. But still! Progress!
Whelp... I guess this is a pretty definitive answer for everyone:
www.theregister.com
Microsoft releases new Windows 11 builds, confirms running on an Apple M1 'is not a supported scenario'
Old proverb: If Windows crashes on a Surface Pro X, will anyone see the bugcheck?
I hate boot camp. It's a pain to switch between OS'es and whichever you use less frequently is months out of date when you boot it up so it's a security risk.
And running macOS on non-Apple hardware (even a VM) is a violation of Apple's EULA.
yes I understand that holding down the option key once a week can be quite an inconvenience.
As far as Apple's EULA, I didn't care during my Apple II days, I may care even less now.
yes I understand that holding down the option key once a week can be quite an inconvenience.
As far as Apple's EULA, I didn't care during my Apple II days, I may care even less now.
If you only need to switch OS'es once a week, sure. But I'd need to switch multiple times through the day. What works well for me is running a Mac laptop and a Windows machine bare metal that I RDP into.
I only switch when I game. The once a week was so you can keep your Windows reasonably updated so its not a 1 hour cluster when finally do it.