iPad iPad with M2 --> UTM --> Win10/11 how?

[DaTomislav]

Hey everyone!!

A friend told me it's possible to run Win10/11 and more on my iPad with UTM SE.
I don't really wana work a lot with that, but i have an necessary programm, that only runs on windows.

I tried it in many ways with different setting; once made it so far, that win11 got mostly installed and when it wanted to finish it said "this machine is not compatibel with win11" although i checked tpm 2.0 in the setting...

Does any already did the same and managed to get it to work? What where your settings?

I got:
- iPad Pro (11", 4th gen, M2) A2759
- 256GB (190 GB free)


Thanks
Greetings, TOM ✌🏽

 

[xxFoxtail]

Maybe not with UTM SE. You can sideload proper UTM with JIT support and get an okay Windows 10 experience - I personally only barely got Windows 7 running like this. If you have an older version of iPadOS (like 15 or 16 or something), there's another version of UTM that will let you run everything at full speed. With UTM SE, I could get Windows XP running okay.

I don’t know, it took a very long time to install those older OS. I can’t imagine how long it’ll take to install and run Windows 10/11.

 

[Digitalguy]

I run full Windows 11 at full speed on my M1. You probably can't. Why?
Because to run at full speed (like on Mac) you need hypervisor (which allows virtualization) and Apple removed hypervisor support from iPadOS in iPadOS 16 (I think it was 16.3). So unless you M2 is new and non updated, like my M1 was when I bought it (and still is), you can't.
Plus, to use hypervisor you need full UTM, which Apple does not authorize in the store. And to install full UTM you need some form of jailbreak, but that is possible until 17.0, after that Apple patched every other 17 and 18 version so it's no longer possible to run what I run to install UTM (in my case Trollstore).
I haven't tested UTM SE, so I don't know if it can install Windows 11, but even if it could, it would run in emulation (which is very different from virtualization), so extremely slow (emulating an old console is one thing, emulating windows is a mess). So it would probably run it like a pentium III on a mechanical drive would, with 10 minutes just to open a program.
My suggestion, use remote desktop for that one program you need....