I found an article by Steve Sande on the OWC blog where he walks through the steps to configure UTM on an M1 Mac, and install Windows on ARM for free, legitimately. As I mentioned before, Windows on ARM isn’t really supported to do this, and even if I succeed, apps would have to be compiled for 64-bit ARM to run on it. This makes this a fun experiment, possibly a colossal waste of time, and when I’m done I’ll have something I don’t need. Let’s Do This! UTM Gallery of OS Virtual Machines Of course, that’s all the motivation I needed to proceed.

Choose your View Make Windows invisible while still using its applications in Coherence™ Mode, or if you’re new to Mac, you can set Windows to occupy your entire screen, so it looks just like it would if you were using a Windows PC.I’m not going to go through the installation in detail, because Steve Sande does a fabulous job of it.

Play your favorite classic Windows-only games on a Mac. Run applications such as Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, SQL Server, PowerBI, AutoCAD, MetaTrader, and thousands more.

Lightning Fast Graphic and resource-hungry Windows applications run effortlessly without slowing down your Mac.

You may also migrate your Windows PC* or Linux, like Ubuntu (Intel-based Mac computers only).

Easy Set-Up Parallels Desktop automatically detects what you need to get started so you can get up and running within minutes! If you need Windows, you’ll be prompted to download and install Windows 11 or use your Boot Camp installation if you have an Intel-based Mac.

Share files and folders, copy and paste images and text, and drag and drop files and content between Mac and Windows applications.

Seamless Use Windows, side-by-side, with macOS on your MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac mini or Mac Pro-no restarting required.

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