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Is an emulator necessary when running windows 10 on a mac

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There are challenges there which will require Apple to work with us to resolve. macOS VMs are not in scope in the short term.Insider builds of Windows 10 ARM may only be installed on systems with a licensed version of Windows 10, which is currently not available on Apple hardware.Microsoft currently does not sell licenses of Windows 10 ARM for virtual machines.Windows is second priority behind Linux.We don’t plan to support installing or running x86 VMs on Macs with Apple silicon.Development is moving along very well, meeting or exceeding our expectations, but there are challenges and much work still to do.We will be delivering a Tech Preview of VMware Fusion for macOS on Apple silicon this year.The quick readīefore we get right into it, I just want to summarize our position way up front with a quick tl dr: It’s been a few months since our informal announcement via Twitter back in November where we committed to delivering VMware VMs on Apple silicon devices, so we wanted to take this opportunity to share a bit about how our progress with our little project to bring Fusion to life on Apple silicon Macs this year.