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Emulate a M1 chip VM on an intel based Mac

sjn1 — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:31:17 GMT

Hi..

Is it possible to emulate a M1 chip VM (Virtual hardware as a Mac with M1 Apple silicon), using VMware Fusion Pro 12 installed on an intel powered Mac (like a MacBook Pro 13" 2019 model, x86-64).

Regards.

Re: Emulate a M1 chip VM on an intel based Mac

ColoradoMarmot — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 20:25:22 GMT

No.

First, Fusion virtualizes CPU's it doesn't emulate them. Second, if that ever changes, there is essentially no market for emulating M1's on Intel - I doubt that we'll ever see it in that direction.

Re: Emulate a M1 chip VM on an intel based Mac

kasper — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 21:18:41 GMT

May see it with QEMU. But yes, Apple moving to a new hardware platform has a serious ripple effect. IMHO Apple's control is a 2 edge sword.

Re: Emulate a M1 chip VM on an intel based Mac

sjn1 — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:51:01 GMT

Ok, sure..

Just wanted to test things for M1 chip Macs, & don't have any. So thought if they have something like that (like reverse Rosetta), then it would be very useful for admins to test in this transition..

Re: Emulate a M1 chip VM on an intel based Mac

ColoradoMarmot — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:31:23 GMT

That's what the mac mini is for