I remember all the fuss when the Apple Silicon Macs were introduced, and then all of the worry on whether Microsoft would legit offer Windows on ARM... People worrying about running older versions of Windows, etc...
I'd say we're in a good place right now with virtualization.
My question has never been if Apple Silicon can do virtualization, Apple indicated that it supported this from the beginning. My question has to do with emulation, running non-ARM based operating systems, which (of course) where UTM comes into play. Traditionally emulation is much slower, and the question I have is how performant Apple Silicon is when emulating an x86 OS running x86 programs. Rosetta 2 does really well on the Mac app side, but I do not know if UTM or other emulation software can leverage it? Thanks for the info!I remember all the fuss when the Apple Silicon Macs were introduced, and then all of the worry on whether Microsoft would legit offer Windows on ARM... People worrying about running older versions of Windows, etc...
I'd say we're in a good place right now with virtualization.
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My question has never been if Apple Silicon can do virtualization, Apple indicated that it supported this from the beginning. My question has to do with emulation, running non-ARM based operating systems, which (of course) where UTM comes into play. Traditionally emulation is much slower, and the question I have is how performant Apple Silicon is when emulating an x86 OS running x86 programs. Rosetta 2 does really well on the Mac app side, but I do not know if UTM or other emulation software can leverage it? Thanks for the info!