That doesn't mean that Parallels and VMWare won't try to sell you stuff, but they won't be running an x86 hypervisor on an ARM, nor will it be any other practical solution for running x86 apps on a Mac. A CPU simulator is an entirely different animal that runs hundreds of times slower: that's good enough for debugging but totally useless for real work.įace facts: if you go down the Apple ARM road you leave x86 behind.

In VirtualBox your x86 guest code runs at near full speed directly on the host processor. I don't understand why people insist on not getting this simple fact: VirtualBox can't be ported to an ARM, because it's an x86 hypervisor, not a simulator. The mod elaborates in an additional post: I suspect VirtualBox will be only one of many 'obscure' applications that won't make it into the Apple/ARM ecosphere. VirtualBox is not a CPU emulator, it requires x86 CPU.

Nope, there will be no port, for the same reason that VirtualBox isn't available on an iPhone. A locked and stickied post from a Site Moderator on the VirtualBox user support forum indicates that VirtualBox will never support Apple Silicon:

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