The guide involves installing Xcode, compiling QEMU, and typing various command lines. Too complicated to just play with Windows on a Mac M1? Developer Khaos Tian simplifies it all with ACVM, a small GUI app (actually a wrapper for QEMU) to upload to their GitHub profile.
After opening ACVM, we select the number of cores and the amount of RAM we allocate to the virtual machine, we drag the Windows ARM disk image onto the “Main Image” box, and click on “Start” . But wait, where can we find this Windows ARM disk image, Microsoft not selling this version? On the Microsoft site, of course, in the section dedicated to the Windows Insider program.
Microsoft provides its beta testers with a preview Windows 10 for ARM. This version is by nature experimental, and therefore not recommendable for everyday use, but for the hack in question, it does the trick. Signing up for the Windows Insider program is free.
Let’s go back to the mini-tutorial: once we have downloaded the preview of Windows ARM (a .VHDX file of more than 10 GB) and that it has been dragged to the “Main Image” box, just press “Start”. The Windows 10 virtual machine then starts up, with a few non-blocking error messages, and you can configure the system in a classic way. There you go, Windows 10 ARM on Mac Apple Silicon! You can use the various preinstalled applications, navigate the OS, etc.
However, one important thing is missing from this virtual machine, namely an internet connection. Despite several attempts by following this other tutorial, I have not succeeded in installing the essential network drivers, the virtual machine crashes when installing these drivers (this is the error KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED which is listed and unresolved at this time), but others have succeeded.
A developer who was able to install Geekbench 5 on the virtual machine https://twitter.com/imbushuo/status/1332484912549687297 a score of 1,288 points in single-core and 5,449 points in multi-core (with the 8 allocated cores and 4 GB of RAM). Scores to compare with 1,730 and 7,500 points on macOS. In other words, there is a loss of power within the virtual machine, this is normal, but the performance remains very satisfactory … and even superior to that of a Surface Pro X, the Microsoft device which runs natively Windows ARM.
It should be remembered that this fairly easy to use hack arrives only two weeks after the release of the Mac M1. Thanks to the motivation and ingenuity of the community, we can expect more successful virtualization solutions quickly. What push Microsoft to market Windows ARM?
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