Microsoft officially blesses Parallels as a way to run Windows on M1, M2 Macs

jch2103 · February 16, 2023, 08:28:52 PM

I don't know if this has any actual significance for anyone wanting to run IMatch on a Mac, but thought it was interesting anyway.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/microsoft-officially-blesses-parallels-as-a-way-to-run-windows-on-m1-m2-macs/

Maybe the tl;dr is the comment at the end of the article:
"But today's announcement is another signal that virtualization and cloud computing are the way forward for people who need to run Windows apps on their Mac; if you're still hoping for an Apple Silicon version of Boot Camp, it's time to start moving on."

Mario · February 16, 2023, 09:12:57 PM

Thanks for sharing. Interesting.

RobiWan · February 18, 2023, 02:58:45 PM

Maybe I'm wrong but " The Arm version of Windows running under Parallels has some limitations..."
Will IMatch run on ARM Windows version?

Mario · February 18, 2023, 05:16:14 PM

IMatch does not run on ARM. That's a different processor architecture (not Intel/AMD compatible).
I think I've read somewhere that there is an "Intel on ARM" virtualization feature - not sure how fast that would be.

Before Apple switched to their own M1/M2 processors, running Windows software on Macs was easy. Now, not anymore. Another row of bricks for Apple's walled garden.

medgeek · February 18, 2023, 05:49:35 PM

Quote from: Mario on February 18, 2023, 05:16:14 PMWindows does not run on ARM.

Did you mean to say "IMatch does not run on ARM"? (Yes, from the thread context; I just wanted to check.)

Mario · February 18, 2023, 07:00:52 PM

Quote from: medgeek on February 18, 2023, 05:49:35 PMDid you mean to say "IMatch does not run on ARM"? (Yes, from the thread context; I just wanted to check.)

Yep. My bad. Fixed.

voronwe · February 18, 2023, 08:14:03 PM

Currently Parallels sucks on the M1. I was not able to run a second MacOS-Version under this VM: The Setting was greyed out (So you can not set e.g. the Memory for the VM). I needed this for testing Software on a clean Mac-System, but not possible.

I did not tried the Windows version so far, because the "ARM-Version" is the big limitation. Can you buy something with Windows ARM? I have on idea, but what is usable on this one? I think most of the Windows programms are only compiled for x86, because nobody would care about something which makes you extra work but give you no money.

Mario · February 18, 2023, 08:22:57 PM

Windows ARM is quite a 'niche' product at this time.

I have other projects which can be compiled for Intel and ARM and run on Windows/Linux/MacOS.
But these use a different programming language and a different 'framework' than IMatch uses. No way for me to port IMatch to ARM, sorry. This would take a looooong time and cost a TON of money. Which I would never be able to recoup...

When I would write an "IMatch 10.x", I would base it on the IMatch Anywhere architecture (IMWS).
IMWS designed and implemented so that it runs on Windows / Linux / MacOS and the IMatch front-end (what the user works with) running in a browser (or in a browser masked as an "app") - on any platform.