no unity view on

[vga13]

unity view is grayed out no matter the app 
macbook air m1
running fusion 13.5 

on macOS sonoma 14.1 

guest: windows11 for arm64 dev preview 

 

[Technogeezer]

There is no Fusion support for Unity view on Windows 11 ARM. 

see https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/95031 for a comparison on what works on Fusion 13.x on Intel Macs, 13.0 on Apple Silicon and 13.5 on Apple Silicon.

[vga13]

what a fantastic article ! thank you for linking it here buddy 

"To preface, Fusion is able to create virtual machines by making explicit use of specialized CPU features and operating system APIs which Apple provides. It does not mimic or “emulate” a different CPU for virtual machines. As such, an operating system must be designed for the type of CPU it will be running on, regardless of if it’s virtualized or physically installed." 

if i understand correctly it means that limitations are inherent to the tools apple provide and, as such, using another solution , like parrarels desktop, UTM, or any other VM software, won't change anything to those limitations, correct? 

[Technogeezer]

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@vga13 wrote:

if i understand correctly it means that limitations are inherent to the tools apple provide and, as such, using another solution , like parrarels desktop, UTM, or any other VM software, won't change anything to those limitations, correct? 

The paragraph you quote is describing in general why Fusion on Apple silicon won’t run VMs built on Intel Macs. That’s a side effect of Apple switching th non-Intel chips, not any tools that Apple provides. Parallels has the same “restriction”.

UTM is slightly different. It will run Intel operating systems. That’s because UTM includes the QEMU emulator. The “restriction” that’s present in UTM is that emulating an entire CPU does not perform as well as you expect. (Hmmmm. Maybe that’s why VMware and Parallels don’t provide an emulator that allows running Intel VMs on Apple Silicon?)

if you skip to the end of that KB article, those are implementation decisions that VMware has made for features for Windows 11. They aren’t directly tied to Apple tools. They are more tied to the need to implement the features for an entirely new CPU architecture and Windows version (Windows 11ARM) that they haven’t had to do before. Also realize that Fusion is unique to the entire VMware product line as it’s their only shipping product that supports virtualizing ARM operating systems and not Intel.