VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Silicon • Hacker News Board

Re: VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Silicon

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Post by tonyedgecombe » Sun, May 02, 2021, 8:45 AM UTC

I wonder if there is enough of a market for this without Windows support. I always imagined the main reason to use VMWare Fusion was to run Windows.

Re: VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Silicon

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Post by ybitbyte » Sun, May 02, 2021, 12:31 PM UTC

end of this year release? I will buy parallel

Re: VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Silicon

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Post by rsj_hn » Sun, May 02, 2021, 9:30 PM UTC

meepmorp wrote: post #3

rsj_hn wrote: post #2

Reading the VMWare blog was a little confusing. Parallels announced support for running windows on M1 a couple of weeks ago: https://www.parallels.com/news/press-releases/show/2021-pd16... With Parallels, it's an "insider Preview", so it appears the limiting factor is Windows releasing a finished version of the OS that includes an emulation layer that works well enough on apple silicon that it's not a preview? Is tha…

Parallels is owned by Corel, not Microsoft.

thanks for the correction!

Re: VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Silicon

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 03, 2021, 7:56 PM UTC

rsj_hn wrote: post #13

meepmorp wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Parallels is owned by Corel, not Microsoft.

thanks for the correction!

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