VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview Now Available
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Re: VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview Now Available
#2The blog post is short on what the preview enables. I assume this allows for running Intel-based images on Apple Silicon, the achieved emulation performance would be most interesting to know.
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Re: VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview Now Available
#4We don’t plan to support installing or running x86 VMs on Macs with Apple silicon.
What about x86 emulation?
We get asked regularly about running x86 VMs on M1 Macs. It makes total sense… If Apple can emulate x86 with Rosetta 2, surely VMware can do something too, right?
Well, the short answer is that there isn’t exactly much business value relative to the engineering effort that is required, at least for the time being. For now, we’re laser focused on making Arm Linux VMs on Apple silicon a delight to use.
So, to be a bit blunt, running x86 operating systems on Apple silicon is not something we are planning to deliver with this project. Installing Windows or Linux from an x86 ISO, for example, will not work.
https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/04/fusion-on-apple-...
Re: VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview Now Available
#5We don’t plan to support installing or running x86 VMs on Macs with Apple silicon. What about x86 emulation? We get asked regularly about running x86 VMs on M1 Macs. It makes total sense… If Apple can emulate x86 with Rosetta 2, surely VMware can do something too, right? Well, the short answer is that there isn’t exactly much business value relative to the engineering effort that is required, at least for the time be…
That seems like a bold move. I would have expected that 90% wanted a Fusion exclusively to be able to run x86 operating systems.
Re: VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview Now Available
#6What is Fusion providing that Parallels doesn’t already?
Re: VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview Now Available
#7We don’t plan to support installing or running x86 VMs on Macs with Apple silicon. What about x86 emulation? We get asked regularly about running x86 VMs on M1 Macs. It makes total sense… If Apple can emulate x86 with Rosetta 2, surely VMware can do something too, right? Well, the short answer is that there isn’t exactly much business value relative to the engineering effort that is required, at least for the time be…
That seems like a bold move. I would have expected that 90% wanted a Fusion exclusively to be able to run x86 operating systems .
That would be the only reason I would continue to pay for the product. Prepping a VM on my desktop to move into VSphere or running an older Mac OS to run 32-bit software are my use cases.
Re: VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview Now Available
#8What is Fusion providing that Parallels doesn’t already?
Better UI, no scammy "buy our other product" buttons in the app UI, no misleading pricing. I always found Parallels to be quite shady.
Re: VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview Now Available
#9The blog post is short on what the preview enables. I assume this allows for running Intel-based images on Apple Silicon, the achieved emulation performance would be most interesting to know.
It enables running Linux ARM based VMs on macOS.
Re: VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview Now Available
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
That seems like a bold move. I would have expected that 90% wanted a Fusion exclusively to be able to run x86 operating systems .
That would be the only reason I would continue to pay for the product. Prepping a VM on my desktop to move into VSphere or running an older Mac OS to run 32-bit software are my use cases.
x86 is dying in front of our eyes. I've been using M1 exclusively for work for couple of months. I was a bit sceptical, initially I thought tons of stuff will not work. But all except one thing works perfectly. That one thing being mssql server. Microsoft provides azure flavoured ARM docker image for mssql but it's shit slow - so slow I can't use it for development. So I'm running Ubuntu on Ryzen in the background (no monitor, just multipass/docker/k8s >). Once Microsoft provides mssql docker image for ARM, I'm ready to drop all Intel/AMD heaters, maybe after winter season?
ps. currently 2 out of 459 processes on my desktop are running in x86 emulation; sourcetree and some speech synthesis thing.