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I’d frankly be surprised if you were able to muster the talent/willpower for something like this. 1. Most of the people able to do this sort of thing probably work in Linux/FreeBSD/etc land. 2. You’re really working doubly against the tide here. You have proprietary stuff on the Mac and on the Windows side. 3. (Personal opinion) Dear God that sounds like a lot of work for something that is a fairly unfriendly experie…
Can you dual boot any other OS on ARM Macs yet? Seems like this project might have missed a few steps along the way. This really should be a Microsoft effort. They just announced that they have Visual Studio compiling in ARM64 finally, so it's only a matter of time before the only thing standing in the way is backroom deals that we don't know about. Qualcomm? I mean, I do want to see Qualcomm ship their M1 competitor…
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Parallels in operating in a legal gray area and using Insider builds of Windows on ARM that are not licensed for M1 hardware. There is currently no legal way, from a licensing standpoint, to have an ARM build running on a device that Microsoft does not have an existing agreement with. If you're running an M1 with Parallels in any type of business or money-making environment then you're putting yourself at risk.
What's the basis for this view? Microsoft will happily sell me a license key for Windows 11, will let me download a Windows arm64 build and activate it, with the license explicitly stating that installation on a single virtual machine is permitted, and with no apparent restrictions on the hardware which can be used. It's totally possible that I'm just missing something but I don't really see what it is – as far as I…
There’s a VS community post about it, and I think there must be some denial or something going on. Lots of deliberately obtuse thinking and circular reasoning for why this can never ever happen, despite 100,000 Parallels users demonstrating that it works.
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Native-ARM-Sup...
Can you dual boot any other OS on ARM Macs yet? Seems like this project might have missed a few steps along the way. This really should be a Microsoft effort. They just announced that they have Visual Studio compiling in ARM64 finally, so it's only a matter of time before the only thing standing in the way is backroom deals that we don't know about. Qualcomm? I mean, I do want to see Qualcomm ship their M1 competitor…
Yes, https://asahilinux.org . I think this is coming at about the right stage in the game - the Asahi folks have figured out the baseline needs for booting another OS and have a basic bootstrap loader and hypervisor (m1n1) as mentioned in the M1 Windows writeup.
I think the OP writeup is fairly clear-eyed in terms of what needs doing - bring up the basic interrupt controller setup and IOMMU oddities needed to get UEFI and then the kernel to come up, and then start chipping away driver by driver until the system is usable.
This is basically what Asahi did and it's worked out well for them.
I’d frankly be surprised if you were able to muster the talent/willpower for something like this. 1. Most of the people able to do this sort of thing probably work in Linux/FreeBSD/etc land. 2. You’re really working doubly against the tide here. You have proprietary stuff on the Mac and on the Windows side. 3. (Personal opinion) Dear God that sounds like a lot of work for something that is a fairly unfriendly experie…
Is Windows RT usable in any of this? For a while there, RT was the Windows 8 equivalent for their ARM tech.
Can you dual boot any other OS on ARM Macs yet? Seems like this project might have missed a few steps along the way. This really should be a Microsoft effort. They just announced that they have Visual Studio compiling in ARM64 finally, so it's only a matter of time before the only thing standing in the way is backroom deals that we don't know about. Qualcomm? I mean, I do want to see Qualcomm ship their M1 competitor…
> Can you dual boot any other OS on ARM Macs yet? Yes, https://asahilinux.org . I think this is coming at about the right stage in the game - the Asahi folks have figured out the baseline needs for booting another OS and have a basic bootstrap loader and hypervisor (m1n1) as mentioned in the M1 Windows writeup. I think the OP writeup is fairly clear-eyed in terms of what needs doing - bring up the basic interrupt con…
Can you dual boot any other OS on ARM Macs yet? Seems like this project might have missed a few steps along the way. This really should be a Microsoft effort. They just announced that they have Visual Studio compiling in ARM64 finally, so it's only a matter of time before the only thing standing in the way is backroom deals that we don't know about. Qualcomm? I mean, I do want to see Qualcomm ship their M1 competitor…
> Can you dual boot any other OS on ARM Macs yet? Yes, https://asahilinux.org . I think this is coming at about the right stage in the game - the Asahi folks have figured out the baseline needs for booting another OS and have a basic bootstrap loader and hypervisor (m1n1) as mentioned in the M1 Windows writeup. I think the OP writeup is fairly clear-eyed in terms of what needs doing - bring up the basic interrupt con…
I’d frankly be surprised if you were able to muster the talent/willpower for something like this. 1. Most of the people able to do this sort of thing probably work in Linux/FreeBSD/etc land. 2. You’re really working doubly against the tide here. You have proprietary stuff on the Mac and on the Windows side. 3. (Personal opinion) Dear God that sounds like a lot of work for something that is a fairly unfriendly experie…
I feel like there should be a common etiquette rule on HN where if you don't care about a particular project / technology / initiative that you skip commenting and move on. For example, your comment says that this initiative will not work out. Should there be a debate whether or not it's theoretically possibly for this to work out logistically? What is the value in that? Even if there is a convincing argument that th…
> Should there be a debate whether or not it's theoretically possibly for this to work out logistically? What is the value in that?
Certainly if you're going to work on this you'd like to know if it's just a dead end.
I’d frankly be surprised if you were able to muster the talent/willpower for something like this. 1. Most of the people able to do this sort of thing probably work in Linux/FreeBSD/etc land. 2. You’re really working doubly against the tide here. You have proprietary stuff on the Mac and on the Windows side. 3. (Personal opinion) Dear God that sounds like a lot of work for something that is a fairly unfriendly experie…