Hello ! i need to ask something. I want to use virtualisation environment on my M1 based Mac but I couldn't find ARM machines and software like VirtualBox and VMware to support ARM images.
Can someone pls recommend me alternatives of this?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.2
QEMU has virtualization for various ARM platforms.
I have been playing with a branch of it called UTM
which is a nice GUI based set up and have been testing
a couple Linux distros and the seem pretty snappy
(Ubuntu 20.x and Debian ARM (XFCE)). These are
distros built for the Apple ARM64 and utilizing the
Apple ARM virtualization framework.
I am guessing if these aren't Apple ARM build images,
you would need to configure QEMU for emulation and
not virtualization.
QEMU has virtualization for various ARM platforms.
I have been playing with a branch of it called UTM
which is a nice GUI based set up and have been testing
a couple Linux distros and the seem pretty snappy
(Ubuntu 20.x and Debian ARM (XFCE)). These are
distros built for the Apple ARM64 and utilizing the
Apple ARM virtualization framework.
I am guessing if these aren't Apple ARM build images,
you would need to configure QEMU for emulation and
not virtualization.
I bought Parallels for my MacBook Pro M1 and it works great. I do not know the full potential of Parallels quite yet but it is great for Windows 10 on macOS.
Virtualization on M1 based MacBook Air
