Microsoft outlines official support for Windows 11 on Mac with Apple Silicon

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Weak, thought this was native implementation?

"Microsoft does say that there are some limitations when it comes to virtualizing Windows 11 on top of macOS, pointing primarily to features that require nested virtualization to function as not being supported. Those include:


  • Windows Subsystem for Android
  • Windows Subsystem for Linux
  • Windows Sandbox
  • Virtualization-based Security (VBS)
Additionally, Microsoft says that DirectX12 and OpenGL3.3 is also not guaranteed to function, and that 32-bit ARM apps are also not supported when running on a Mac, and are actually being removed from Windows altogether soon."

Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/soft...port-for-windows-11-on-mac-with-apple-silicon
 
Weak how? This is a limit of running things in a VM, and ARM not having hardware support for nested virtualization. As for running it on the hardware itself, that's up to Apple unfortunately and I doubt they'll be interested in supporting that.
 
erek said:
Weak, thought this was native implementation?

"Microsoft does say that there are some limitations when it comes to virtualizing Windows 11 on top of macOS, pointing primarily to features that require nested virtualization to function as not being supported. Those include:


  • Windows Subsystem for Android
  • Windows Subsystem for Linux
  • Windows Sandbox
  • Virtualization-based Security (VBS)
Additionally, Microsoft says that DirectX12 and OpenGL3.3 is also not guaranteed to function, and that 32-bit ARM apps are also not supported when running on a Mac, and are actually being removed from Windows altogether soon."

Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/soft...port-for-windows-11-on-mac-with-apple-silicon
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So far the parallels arm64 version has been pretty solid for the few places we need it.
 
Sycraft said:
Weak how? This is a limit of running things in a VM, and ARM not having hardware support for nested virtualization. As for running it on the hardware itself, that's up to Apple unfortunately and I doubt they'll be interested in supporting that.
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can't they cross compile it on Apple Mac ARM architecture instead of nested virtualization
 
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erek said:
can't the cross compile it on Apple Mac ARM architecture instead of nested virtualization
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Call Apple and ask them to support it. If Apple doesn't allow it, not happening, since they have very locked down architecture.
 
Been using Fusion to run Win 11 for a few months now, no issues that way either. Weird that they only call out Parallels on the support page.
 
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