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1, I guess it's a standard x86 version of Windows, not some Windows for ARM port. But imagine how fast native Windows port for M2 would be?!

2. Is this only Windows/graphics specific, or Parallels on M2 can also run Ubuntu x86 OS (not Asahi Linux) and code faster than the latest x86 laptops?

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Parallels can't run x86 code on Apple Silicon. It runs ARM Windows, which includes Microsoft's own x86 emulator: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/apps-on-arm-x86...

Parallels does not support x86_64 Windows on M1/2 Macs:

https://kb.parallels.com/125343

You can install the Windows ARM insider builds and run x86_64 applications through the emulation in Windows.

It's almost certainly Windows for ARM, which is available from Microsoft as a Windows Insider Preview. Parallels will also be able to run non-asahi ubuntu, and it likely will be pretty fast, but again it will be the ARM version.

It's windows for arm. linux for arm, etc etc

Parallels on Apple Silicon cannot run x86 OS's.

If you want to run x86, you can use qemu which works fine.

thanks, for a moment I was disappointed that I just ordered a fully-loaded Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 10 since I need to run x86 Ubuntu

> If you want to run x86, you can use qemu which works fine.

Are there any benchmarks for x86 Ubuntu under QEMU on M1/M2? Will it be usable?

Those are great machines too! And what dreamy keyboards.

This is coming : "Running Intel Binaries in Linux VMs with Rosetta" https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run... And Ubuntu for ARM is already available.

I can highly recommend Arch AMD64 under Parallels on M1. GPU acceleration, clipboard integration, stuff generally works

Hi rivertech, I have no benchmarks but tried Alpine x86, it's a tad slow. I haven't tried a GUI and figured it's not worth the penalty in speed and battery life. Why do you need x86 ubuntu instead of arm ubuntu?, is it because of running x86 windows programs under Wine? Box86 is perhaps a faster solution.

> Why do you need x86 ubuntu instead of arm ubuntu?

- I dislike macOS (when I had Intel MBA in the past it was collecting dust until I installed Ubuntu on it).

- I don't want to have 2 sets of instructions how to do something (i.e. once on macOS on AppleSilicon and once on Ubuntu x86)

- I want my local dev env to be as similar as possible to the deployment env.

Not sure how Ubuntu for ARM with x86 JIT for user code is the answer, judging by your reply it might be slow also.

I understand, I'd try box86/64. Depending on what you develop, instructions between Ubuntu x86 shouldn't differ that much compared to Ubuntu arm64, which can run with near native speeds within MacOS arm64. I have a similar issue, I want to run the occasional windows 32-bit programs on MacOS arm64 which necessitates linux x86/x64 with wine. I'm not sure if I can run wine for x64 on macos arm64 directly, appearently codeweavers crossover can. Ideally I'd do that in a virtualized box I can backup and move around.

> If you want to run x86, you can use qemu which works fine.

It works for sure. It has a very noticeable performance impact though.

It is the ARM version of Windows. Parallels on Apple Silicon can't run x86 OSs. Only ARM ones. Not sure if Geekbench has a Windows ARM port though.

Actually I think you have to use the Arm version of Windows with Parallels. But it has been a while that I tried it, may remember incorrectly.

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