![]() With Apple transitioning to home-brew silicon, and VMware dropping hints it is closer to running ESXi and its Fusion desktop hypervisor on that platform, enthusiasm to allocate resources to certification of the orphaned Intel Mac Pro could be hard to find. The Register's virtualization desk has also heard VMware developers speak of an internal process that requires them to bid for funding to advance projects. Or perhaps its people have better things to do with their time. ![]() VMware's post attributes its decision to "various challenges of COVID-19 and the recent announcement from Apple on their transition away from x86 to Apple Silicon".ĬOVID challenges? Perhaps VMware is finding it hard to get the hands-on time it needs with hardware to get the job done. Why, VMware? Why cut users off from a very fine potential host machine? ![]() Apple's macOS 12 adds improved virtualization though no sign of anything like Boot Camp on M1 silicon.QEMU 4 arrives with toys for Arm admirers, RISC-V revolutionaries, POWER patriots.Windows comes to Apple M1 silicon as Parallels delivers native desktop hypervisor.Apple seemed to give a nod to this by offering the 2019 Mac Pro as both a desktop workstation and a rack-mountable machine. So decently powerful Mac hosts are needed. A reminder: Apple only allows macOS VMs to run on its own hardware, even in the cloud.
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