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VMware Fusion Tech Preview Brings Windows 11 to Apple Silicon Macs
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I know Garmin Express is not Apple Silicon native, but version 7.13.2 works fine on my iMac M1.
Thanks, I just installed Garmin Express on my M1, but it's not running on Ventura.
Urban myth about Parallels (which is a Gold parter of Microsoft), you can download and licence a legitimate copy of Windows 11 (i.e. pay for rather than use a dev beta) and run it in Parallels.
Ah, I can understand that they're not supporting Ventura yet. Works fine on Monterey.
I'm stuck using the latest version of VMWare fusion available from ThePirateBay at present, Until I find a reason to license the software. Although slightly out of date, it runs fine and loads windows 10 x64 reasonably quickly on my 10 year old hardware/Catalina. It allows me to run the Office desktop apps that I require such as Visio, Word, etc. This keeps me locked at a Version 12.0.0 (16880131) - However - the new features alone are enough to get me to license it. I don't mind supporting VMWare at all, they are a great company.
I don't understand this.... I'm running fusion 12.2.4 on my intel i9 16" MBP, with a windows 11 VM that has "accelerate 3D graphics" enabled and a VMware SVGA 3D display adapter in the VM. So is this saying it's a backwards step??
Well I'm pretty sure your hooky serial won't work with the latest 12.2.4 version direct from VMware, pretty sure....
No. You're talking about Intel-based Macs, but everything about this release with regard to limitations is referring to Apple Silicon Macs.
Unfortunately Apple Swift for non-Apple platforms is really designed around Ubuntu being the primary platform. Sure there are others, but support is not as robust.
You can run x86 Windows on Apple Silicon Macs, but you can run Windows 11 which can run x86 apps
Why the heck would you pirate VMWare Fusion if it's free for personal use (has been since 2020):
See here:
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Actually it wasn't a myth until sometime last year. Originally you did have to sign up to the insider program T&Cs & use a preview version that was almost certainly only licensed for evaluation use. That changed quietly and without fanfare shortly after Windows 11 was released. Parallels now offer an apparently (I Am Not A Lawyer) legitimate route to download a production copy of Windows 11 for ARM, paying for a license and activating it.
It’s interesting that VMWare would announce this. Perhaps Microsoft has given some indication to VMWare that they will sell Windows 11 ARM licenses once their exclusivity deal with Qualcomm expires. VMWare caters mostly to enterprises.
When I can get a Acer Spin 714 Google Chromebook with a 12th Gen EVO Intel with 256gb of SSD storage, 8gb of ram a touch screen with a included USI pen and a mouse with gorilla glass, lighted keyboard with Thunderbolt 4, I no longer need a Mac for my daily driver and it only costs $725 dollars. I built a ROG ASUS gaming tower last fall with a EVGA 3080TI card and never looked back. Don't give my your horse S*** how superior the MXXX chip is, it is a system on a chip just like a Mediatek or Qualcom chip processor, it is not magic. You lost me two years ago when you started to removed features on the Mac like bootcamp.
Bootcamp is not removed by Apple, Well it is kind of but it was because that Microsoft was not interested to work with Apple around bootcamp and the apple silicon.
It's not quite that bad - The standard version of Parallels is still a "one off" ~$70 purchase and, in my experience, tends to survive one new Mac OS version before needing a half-price upgrade (although Parallels will always advertise an annual upgrade you have to check the small print as to whether this is 'required for' or just 'enhanced for' the new OS). I've never felt the need to upgrade to the business or pro versions which are, as you say, subscription only.
...and they've just been taken over by Broadcom, so there's some concern for the future from customers (and it remains to be seen whether the VMWare Player will continue to be free).
VMware customers fear Broadcom acquisition will hike costs
Gartner advises renegotiating subscriptions now to avoid ‘dramatic’ and ‘extraordinary’ price rises
Also, AFAIK, on Apple Silicon, all of the options - Parallels, VMWare, UTM and 'linux container' systems like Ubuntu Multipass & Docker - use MacOS's built in hypervisor for their core functionality, so the competition really is down to how well they deal with the "extras" like graphics acceleration and MacOS integration. Parallels has usually stayed on the top of that heap.
UTM is great for free - and has the advantage that (being based on QUEMU) it is both a hypervisor and an emulator - so it can run x86 OSs as well (if slowly). I don't think it can match Parallels for bells and whistles, though.
Bootcamp - as it was - relied on the fact that Intel-based Macs were not just x86 based but very close to being hardware and firmware compatible with regular "PC clones". The clever bit was adding a PC BIOS emulator to the Mac's EFI firmware so Windows could at least boot with default drivers - and that was helped because Apple used the standard, extensible open-source EFI firmware. With the firmware module added, some Macs (such as the 2006 Mac Pro) could actually just boot and install from a standard Windows XP DVD. Other Macs just needed some shenanigans to tweak the Windows installer (which was already a thing with some less-standard PC hardware).
After that Bootcamp was really just helper utilities to partition the disc and tweak the Windows installer, plus a collection of regular third-party Windows drivers for the Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Broadcom etc. hardware that the Mac shared with standard PCs, and a few Apple-specific drivers for trackpads etc.
Even if there was an Apple Silicon equivalent to the "BIOS" emulator (which would be harder work because Apple Silicon uses proprietary firmware based on iDevices rather than PCs) that would magically make Windows on ARM bootable, about the only thing the Apple Silicon Macs have in common with Windows-on-ARM machines is the ARM instruction set. Everything else - storage, graphics, I/O - is proprietary Apple hardware, often radically different from what you'll find in PCs, and everything would need new drivers from the ground up, which would need information that Apple isn't even releasing. Apple have clearly said that they won't support natively booting alternative operating systems on Apple Silicon & that the future is virtualisation - so that would all come down to reverse-engineering specs that would potentially change with every new version of Apple Silicon.
The Asahi Linux folks are trying to achieve this for Linux - but they're relying on a lot of reverse engineering - kudos to them, but I'll be interested to see if they ever come up with anything truly stable - and I guess the killer app for Asahi Linux would be to breathe life into old Macs (once old Apple Silicon Macs are a thing) so even if they only ever support M1 that would be useful.
So can you do stuff like use the Windows Media Creation tool to generate a usb of windows 10 for PCs? I don’t think that’s possible.
VMware Fusion 12 (the current release version, not just this Apple Silicon tech preview) is free for personal use. Why would you use a pirated, and potentially infected, version of a free app?