Hi! There are a lot of discussion about running Windows on M1. Running Windows on anything is always both interesting and very exciting but I'd very much appreciate to be able to run MacOS as a guest OS instead. Unfortunately Parallels preview doesn't recognize MacOS installer and such machine cannot be created. I asked parallels about it and didn't get answer yet.
Does any one have any idea how to run virtual MacOS guest?
Mac mini, macOS 10.13
So far, the only thing anyone I have seen has been able to get working to
a usable point has been some ARM-64 Linux distros on QEMU and a developers
preview of the ARM based Windows 10 and a few have these working
on Parallels Technical Preview Program.
In terms of any Intel based OS, now one seems to have managed to
get anything usable on QEMU which does have some sort of "emulation"
mode as opposed to virtualization.
As stated though, non-of the main virtualization platforms have anything
close to being ready for even beta, the real challenge being efficient and
usable emulation of Intel OSes.
So far, the only thing anyone I have seen has been able to get working to
a usable point has been some ARM-64 Linux distros on QEMU and a developers
preview of the ARM based Windows 10 and a few have these working
on Parallels Technical Preview Program.
In terms of any Intel based OS, now one seems to have managed to
get anything usable on QEMU which does have some sort of "emulation"
mode as opposed to virtualization.
As stated though, non-of the main virtualization platforms have anything
close to being ready for even beta, the real challenge being efficient and
usable emulation of Intel OSes.
My main goal for asking this question was ability to use separated MacOS virtual machine rather than X86 virtualization. I have all I need on MacOS and the one thing which is stopping me from fully switching into M1 machine is lack of such separation. I need it to be able to open VPN to the customer and in the same time use slack or mail in public Internet. Linux world be great but MacOS is enough. Actually I was assuming that implementing MacOS guest should be a way easier as the OS kernel is on ARM anyway.
VMWare Fusion, Parallels Desktop nor VirtualBox have M1 compatible versions yet.
Virtualization on M1: MacOS Guest
