It simply doesn't understand that right now it's not possible to run a usable Intel based VM on a Mac with a M1 cpu (much to my dismay) but I'd like to know if that is likely to change at some point in the future. My ancient 12-year old 2 core Dell Core i7 laptop running Windows 10 eats the emulated Windows 10 圆4 on the M1 for lunch.įile this whole experiment under 'yes, you can do it, but really, should you if you're serious'? I think I can safely say that x86 emulation on ARM will leave you sorely disappointed.Īs a side note, this exercise highlights why nobody should expect x86 emulation to be built into virtualization products so that you can continue to run those x86_64 operating systems. That improved the speed, but not to where I consider it usable. I've tried every suggested emulation tuning trick posted on the web, and yes I've installed all the QEMU drivers and SPICE tools. It's not disk bound either.Īnd it's indeed a science project. I did not starve UTM VMs or the Mac host for CPU or memory. It does not run anywhere close to native M1 chip performance. I can access a folder on my host Mac from Windows.īut wow, It's slow as molasses. Yes it installs (not as easily as I'd like, but it does install). If you need to get serious work done with an Intel operating system, use an Intel CPU.Īs a project, I'm in the middle of trying to get Windows 10 圆4 up and running on UTM on an M1 Mac.

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