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Re:VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Sil... by rsj_hn on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:42PM (#27011653)
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?

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Re:VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Sil... by nvrspyx on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:50PM (#27011701)
> Since MS owns Parallels, ...

Corel owns Parallels, not Microsoft.

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Re:VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Sil... by 0xcde4c3db on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:58PM (#27011737)
Conversely, the VM product line that Microsoft acquired is Virtual PC (though they did not buy out Connectix as a whole).
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Re:VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Sil... by rsj_hn on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:02PM (#27011755)
ahh, that's what I was thinking of
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Re:VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Sil... by rsj_hn on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:02PM (#27011754)
corrected, thank you
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Re:VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Sil... by mhdhn on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:37PM (#27011905)
Preview ended. Now fully released. https://www.parallels.com/pd/general/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6_2k...
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Re:VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Sil... by meepmorp on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:50PM (#27011699)
Parallels is owned by Corel, not Microsoft.
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Re:VMware Fusion will not support x86 emulation on Apple Sil... by rsj_hn on Sunday May 02, 2021 @05:30PM (#27019219)
thanks for the correction!
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