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Windows ARM is not available to OEMs.

Parallels is trying emulation on M1 but who knows how well that will work. https://www.parallels.com/blogs/parallels-desktop-apple-sili...

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> Windows ARM is not available to OEMs.

Not "officially", but you can get hold of it as an individual and install it on e.g. a raspberry pi relatively easily already. Running it in a VM might be doable.

Actual Windows 10 ARM too, not the restrictive IoT version that's officially supported on the pi.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/01/27/windows-10-arm-on-r...

In the article, I don’t see mention of Windows x64 running as a guest. They do hint at Windows for ARM, though.

There is no hint of anything to do with windows in the article whatsoever.

"Parallels is also amazed by the news from Microsoft about adding support of x64 applications in Windows on ARM."

I had the impression that, virtualization was not possible on current M1. As I sadly discovered that docker didn’t and won’t run on current silicon. Is it still possible for parallels to move forward without virtualization ?

Virtualization is possible on the M1, it is not possible on the Developer Transition Kit which uses a A12Z chip without Virtualization extensions.

It can only virtualize ARM, of course.

That’s great news! I was disappointed since I read the discussion on github. I clearly misunderstood. Thanks!

I wouldn’t really expect x86 virtualisation instructions to be supported under Rosetta.

You’re going to need an ARM version of Docker, running ARM Linux kernels, and ARM userland Linux binaries.

It is possible, but docker is not yet ported. The docker images you run will have to be ARM images, as docker cannot emulate x86. Docker supports multi-arch images with their buildx infrastructure, so this situation will fix itself over time. Most of the official base images already support ARM.

Virtualisation within the x86 emulation isn't possible. So you can't just run the x86 build of parallels and have it work. But it should be possible to build a new dedicated ARM version of parallels.

It is possible

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