Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different
Virtualising macOS, Linux and Windows on Intel Macs has been relatively straightforward, and device support left to the developer. That won’t work for Apple silicon Macs. This explains what h…
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hoakley April 29, 2026 Macs, Technology Virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs is different Before Apple silicon Macs, you’ve been able to run different versions of macOS, Linux or Windows in third-party virtualisers, such as those from VMware and Parallels. Those products enable a virtual machine running a different operating system to be hosted in macOS, both running code for Intel processors. As part of its engineering preparations for the switch to using Arm processors, Apple decided that the only practical way to support virtualisation on its new Mac hardware was to build it into macOS. This was to enable older versions of macOS, and other operating systems including Linux and Windows for Arm, to run in virtual machines.
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