M1/M2/M3 Mac 7.0 Developer Preview Status
Posted: 28. Aug 2022, 19:29
TL;DR: (by scottgus1)
The M1/M2/M3 Mac ARM 7.0 Beta Technical Preview is a work in progress that will take some time to complete. The eventual goal is to run typical modern Intel/AMD x86 32 and 64 bit OS's on an ARM M1/M2 Mac.
The latest reported working Windows OS is XP 32-bit.
The latest possible Mac, Linux, or Solaris OS will be shown as soon as it is reported.
ARM OS's will not yet run in the Beta.
The devs are continuing development on the Beta. They also plan to have an ARM on ARM Virtualbox hypervisor eventually.
No dates for expected final development of these goals have been or will be released.
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(mod edit: original topic title "Windows XP on Apple M1: 2 hour-install + Crash". Stickied to point out Aeichners' and Klaus's comment on the M1 version of 7.0 Beta below: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=106919&p=523035#p523069)
original question follows:
Windows XP on Apple M1: it took me 2 hour-install + Crash at the end. VM Aborted.
Both the performance and stability is horrible, I really think that this feature needs to be disabled. (perhaps re-introduce Qemu's re-compiler is a better way, after all ... or just disable ability to run x86 in emulation mode)... this feature is absolutely not ready for v7.0 release.
The M1/M2/M3 Mac ARM 7.0 Beta Technical Preview is a work in progress that will take some time to complete. The eventual goal is to run typical modern Intel/AMD x86 32 and 64 bit OS's on an ARM M1/M2 Mac.
The latest reported working Windows OS is XP 32-bit.
The latest possible Mac, Linux, or Solaris OS will be shown as soon as it is reported.
ARM OS's will not yet run in the Beta.
The devs are continuing development on the Beta. They also plan to have an ARM on ARM Virtualbox hypervisor eventually.
No dates for expected final development of these goals have been or will be released.
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(mod edit: original topic title "Windows XP on Apple M1: 2 hour-install + Crash". Stickied to point out Aeichners' and Klaus's comment on the M1 version of 7.0 Beta below: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=106919&p=523035#p523069)
*************************************************************************************************Klaus wrote:In a way the ARM64 package "slipped out", and it's not expected to work reliably. The implementation isn't complete yet (which is what you saw), and in top of that the performance is known to be extremely low. It isn't anywhere near production ready, we know. This will not change for VirtualBox 7, and the "Technology Preview" marker will stay for the foreseeable future, indicating that it won't be supported at all.
At best you'll get some really old 32-bit Linux to run to some degree, such as DSL 4.4.10. No chance even with Ubuntu 16.04 i386.
original question follows:
Windows XP on Apple M1: it took me 2 hour-install + Crash at the end. VM Aborted.
Both the performance and stability is horrible, I really think that this feature needs to be disabled. (perhaps re-introduce Qemu's re-compiler is a better way, after all ... or just disable ability to run x86 in emulation mode)... this feature is absolutely not ready for v7.0 release.