This wasn’t a surprise—VMware doesn’t have any other products that do x86 emulation, and it’s pretty clear that desktop virtualization (Fusion and Workstation) is not a high corporate priority. (Seriously, go to vmware.com and tell me if that looks like a company that sells desktop software).

Developing an x86 emulator with enough compatibility (and speed) to support all x86 software is not something VMware’s going to do for a side project. Especially since they still have to support Intel and ARM virtualization as well.

Reading the VMWare blog was a little confusing. Parallels announced support for running windows on M1 a couple of weeks ago: https://www.parallels.com/news/press-releases/show/2021-pd16...

With Parallels, it's an "insider Preview", so it appears the limiting factor is Windows releasing a finished version of the OS that includes an emulation layer that works well enough on apple silicon that it's not a preview? Is that vmware's issue?

> Since MS owns Parallels, ...

Corel owns Parallels, not Microsoft.

Conversely, the VM product line that Microsoft acquired is Virtual PC (though they did not buy out Connectix as a whole).

ahh, that's what I was thinking of

corrected, thank you

Preview ended. Now fully released. https://www.parallels.com/pd/general/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6_2k...

Parallels is owned by Corel, not Microsoft.

thanks for the correction!

They are planning to release a preview version this year with support for ARM VMs only, the priority will be for Linux, as Microsoft didn't release an official Windows ARM version yet.

I wonder if there is enough of a market for this without Windows support. I always imagined the main reason to use VMWare Fusion was to run Windows.

end of this year release? I will buy parallel