Now the company is taking its next step in bringing VMWare Fusion to M1 Macs with the first beta release compatible with Apple Silicon.įor now, VMware Fusion for Macs M1 will be available as a closed beta, which means that not everyone can download it. Then it becomes ugly.VMware Fusion is one of the most popular hypervisor softwares available for macOS, which allows users to run virtual machines with not only Apple’s operating system, but also Windows and Linux. You can say that "well I want to take the risk anyway" but in my experience that statement only holds until the first time that your work stops due to a problem. It's a question on how far do you want to push that in your situation. Which is not the case with Windows running on Apple Silicon today since Microsoft has explicitly stated that they don't. I see valid concerns about providing a product to users that can be supported in the event that something goes wrong. They should have done it earlier, in my opinion, but I don't run VMware nor am I one of their lawyers or engineering managers. It appears now that VMware might just be thinking that they need to move ahead regardless of Microsoft's "unwritten rules". At first there was a reluctance by VMware to do anything with Windows on the M1 Macs due to an interpretation by VMware's lawyers. I think VMware might be at the point where a) they are seeing the demand for Windows from Mac customers which is only getting greater since Intel Macs are pretty much gone from the Apple portfolio, and b) they know that having Windows desktop virtualization (even on the Mac) is in line with their enterprise product strategy. Just realize that you’re running a Windows installation that isn’t supported by Microsoft, so any support for any problems is going to come from Parallels, not Microsoft. It’ll work with a nicer out of the box experience than the VMware Tech Preview. Parallels gets you closer to where you want to be today. Is it possible that VMware will do what Parallels did and come out with a set of Tools that allows Windows to run on Fusion like it does on Intel Macs? It’s possible, but we don’t know for sure - although recent hints from VMware are giving us some hope. The whole “Windows on M1 Mac” thing is complicated by the need to run a version of Windows built for ARM chips (Apple Silicon is a customized derivative of an ARM cpu chip) rather than Intel chips, and Microsoft’s stance on support for that version of Windows running on the Mac (they currently don’t even though it runs). The answer gets more murky when you add “will it run Windows”. VMware has indicated recently that they are looking at a official Fusion release later this year that runs on Apple Silicon Macs. To your question about when will there be a version of Fusion that runs Windows on M1 Macs, the short answer based on what we’ve heard from VMware lately is “maybe later this year”. The following is my personal opinion based on what I’ve seen recently, and I hope this helps. I also don’t know how that title “commander” got attached to me, so just plain old “Technogeezer” is fine I’m after all just another user even though I have a tech background. If you have Intel Windows applications that you expect to run, you are at the mercy of Microsoft’s implementation of a Intel-to-ARM translator which is not as far along as Apple’s Rosetta we do sometimes get mired in jargon (myself included, so I do have to watch it). There are things that may not work as you expect because of that. You can get the Windows For ARM Insider Preview to work on M1 Macs, but it is unsupported by both VMware and Microsoft (no VMware Tools). Windows 10/11 do have an ARM version but Microsoft does not sell a license to end users for it nor do they support it on Apple Silicon processors. Neither Windows 7 nor Windows Server have versions that run on ARM architecture devices. but any applications you have will need to be recompiled on those versions to run. Any operating system that runs under the Fusion Tech Preview on Apple Silicon (M1, etc.) has to be an ARM architecture (arm64/aarch64), not Intel.īoth Ubuntu and Kali have arm64/aarch64 versions that run on M1. Second, any VMs that you have created under Fusion on an Intel Mac will not and will never run on an M1 Mac. First you will have to run the Fusion Tech Preview for Apple Silicon to run any virtual machines on the M1 Mac.
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