Windows 11 on ARM on macOS on M1 MacBook – cold boot to running Visual Studio

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LOL and VS still loaded slower the VS5.0 running on Win2k on a PC made in 2002.

The boot time was impressive though.

They should port VS to native Macos and Linux platforms.

I do not know whether it’s a port, but there’s https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/

This is nothing like VS, though I suppose one could be forgiven for thinking otherwise due to Microsoft’s complete inability to pick anything other than the most confusing name possible for any given product.

Yes my i5 Windows 10 machines takes longer to boot, but then I don't have a SSD virtual hard drive.

How is this interesting? This is Windows 11 running in a Virtual Machine (specifically Parallels) on macOS.

Perhaps not everyone knows that it is possible, and runs at a reasonable speed?

I think this is the ARM port of Windows 11 so it's running natively rather than emulating x86(_64) on ARM.

I assume it's running under a VM rather than directly on hardware. Running bare metal would require someone writing non-mac drivers for the hardware, which seems to be something only the Asahi folk seem to be have attempting.

It would be interesting to see how x86/x86_64 windows apps run under hosted win. I don't know what the performance characteristics of the windows x86->ARM translator, but I'd hope for being within cooie of Rosetta performance.

This looks really fast.

How?

Windows 11 ARM in Parallels. Did you watch the video?

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