Instead, you will be running VirtualBox natively on your Windows computer and installing macOS as a guest operating system within VirtualBox. Maybe the divestiture from Dell will remove some roadblocks to VMware’s forward looking plans.Before you start making assumptions, this is not a super-complicated Hackintosh setup.
It is a bit disappointing as a long time Fusion customer to see Parallels partner with Apple on a demonstration of ARM virtualization while VMware was silent.
Parallels doesn’t have to deal with that corporate product complexity. The Mac has now become an even more different platform than the other platforms in the product portfolio (ESX, Windows and Linux). VMware does have some tough choices to make with Apple Silicon. Unfortunately that’s an unrealistic expectation by a lot of new Mac purchasers because they don’t understand about the differences in CPU chip and the fallout of Apple’s decisions. My comment was meant to say that there are people out there who think that’s not reasonable and that they should be able to run any old version of macOS and Windows on their brand new Mac simply because they’ve been used to doing it.
In fact I’m in agreement that it’s a reasonable expectation given how virtualization works, the architectural differences between Intel and Apple Silicon, and the direction that Apple has taken with its API set. The real tough part is that Apple doesn't care so much about backwards compatibility, so API's can have big changes annually, and fixes/changes don't get backported all the time, so that dynamic might cause some heartburn during the development process.īut we're peeling back the onion, hoping we don't cry all over the - my post was not meant to say that the expectation wes unreasonable. and the APIs are all brand new, so they may not meet our quality or UX bar yet (this has happened before, take the paravirtual GPU for macOS guests on Intel.Nice tech, missing some critical APIs and is somewhat crashy, but Apple never bothered to fix it on Intel and we're not going to try and support a broken feature that we can't fix.). We basically have to start from scratch entirely in the UI. There are no APIs for things like clones, snapshots, suspend/resume, and the VMs wouldn't be compatible with vSphere (ESXi-ARM for example). The challenge is that it basically means we can't use any of our existing hypervisor stack or APIs, we have to use all Apple's.
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