A developer successfully virtualizes the Arm version of Windows on a Mac M1

Right now with the arrival of the new Macs with M1, there is no official way to make Windows work on these computers. There is no function Boot Camp as on Intel Macs And although solutions are being found, they do not seem definitive. We do not know if this new solution that Alexander Graf has reached will be the good one, but at least it is one more advance. East has successfully virtualized the Arm version of Windows on a Mac M1 without emulator.

Although at the moment Boot Camp does not work with the new Apple computers that have the new M1 Chip and therefore the new Apple Silicon processor, the developers are doing everything possible to finally make it possible. run Windows natively on these Macs. The step taken by Alexander Graf is very important. You have successfully virtualized the Arm version of Windows on a Mac M1. This demonstrates that the M1 chip is capable of running the Microsoft operating system (via The 8-Bit).

https://twitter.com/_AlexGraf/status/1332081983879569415?s=20

Using the QEMU virtualizer Open source, Graf was able to virtualize the Arm version of Windows on Apple's M1 chip, without emulation. Since the M1 chip is a custom Arm SoC, it is no longer possible to install the x86 version of Windows or Windows x86 applications using Boot Camp. However, he tweeted that “when virtualized on a Mac M1, Windows ARM64 can run x86 applications really well. It's not as fast as Rosetta 2, but it's close. '

Graf applied a custom patch to the QEMU virtualizer, who is said to be known for "Achieve near native performance" when running the guest code directly on the host CPU. This means that the Arm version of Windows can be virtualized on Mac M1 with excellent performance.


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