VBOX not getting installed on MAC M1 Max

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lightsky
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VBOX not getting installed on MAC M1 Max

Post by lightsky »

Hi there,

I have recently purchased macbook pro with m1 max chip configuration.
Since in m1 we cannot directly install vbox, I have installed parallel desktop app which allows me to run windows 11. Now I'm trying to install vbox and it says fatal error: cannot proceed with installation.
Can someone help me on how to fix this issue?

Vbox version : 7.03
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mpack
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Re: VBOX not getting installed on MAC M1 Max

Post by mpack »

If I understand correctly, you have installed the ARM edition of Windows 11 inside Parallels on a MacOS M1 host.

The ARM edition of Windows 11 is not a supported VirtualBox host. VirtualBox is an Intel CPU hypervisor. To do anything at all useful it requires an Intel or compatible CPU.
lightsky
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Re: VBOX not getting installed on MAC M1 Max

Post by lightsky »

Hi Mpack,

Thanks for the response.
When I install parallel, it asks for the OS I want to install in it. I chose win 11. Not sure if it is ARM edition.
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Re: VBOX not getting installed on MAC M1 Max

Post by mpack »

I'm pretty sure that Parallels can't emulate Intel fast enough to run Win11-AMD64 on an ARM processor, plus Intel editions of Win11 are famously fussy about which Intel CPU they will run on, so my bet is that you installed the ARM version of Win11 which is therefore not compatible with an x86 hypervisor. And this scenario may be unexpected enough that the devs didn't fully anticipate it, hence a crash instead.

The matter is easily settled: inside Windows 11 go into Settings | System | About, and post a screenshot of the processor settings. For comparison here is a screenshot from a Win11 VM (2 cores 8GB RAM) on my Win10-amd64 host PC:
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