This means all the phone-home licensing crap and goodness knows what else. It's possible to run VMWare & Parallels but only if WinDos10/11 ARM is installed. The M1 processors stop this particular workflow. I'm very happy with this keep the damn Microsoft rubbish to a minimum and not need any of this anti-virus guff as the VMs are isolated. This simply isn't possible unless running Win10/11 which is not acceptable (bloat doesn't go half way to describing why not).įor the past 16 years I've run MacBook Pros (and even PowerPC Macs) and virtualised a load of Windows instances ranging from Win3.1 and Win95 (just for a laugh, not serious use) through XP which works exceedingly well running some old applications, through various Windows server builds including Windows Server 2012 which is used for running the Visual Studio environment for dot net development (supporting and developing old but still current dotnet applications). My issue is I'd like to run a Visual Studio development environment on an M1. This seems like an excellent way of getting the best of both worlds in the absence of being able to run a WinDOS VM on an M1. A picture, with M1 MBP for size reference, weight like 200 grams, don't even feel it in the bag.
#WINDOWS VM ON MAC M1 PLUS#
Plus a handy, although slow, wireless data storage. Have it set as wifi access point (2.4 only) and just remote into it from Mac. No battery, needs 12V power supply, USB-C but no PD. Mind you, my VMs are not loaded, thats pre-deployment. Once created it boots VM in less than a minute and I can do my stuff without really noticing any slowdowns. My M1 MBP does the same in VMWare fusion with same fedora but ARM version in about 6 minutes.
#WINDOWS VM ON MAC M1 ISO#
Surprisingly snappy, spinning Fedora 34 on it in VMware Workstation from DVD iso took 13 minutes.
It is about the size of 2.5'' external SSD enclosure. I got one of those from Amazon, for like $250, quad core Celeron, passive cooled, 8GB RAM, 256 eMMC + open nvme m.2 slot in which I have 4TB SSD. I travel a lot, so pulling 30-100GB from my server is not an option on hotel wifi. For a regular work I can do just fine in ARM VMs. The only thing I can't do on M1 is x86 VMs, and sometimes I need to spin one, configure and load on customer site, check somebody's backup etc.