VMWARE HORIZON FOR MAC M1 MAC
VMware should spend their Mac development resources for making their administration utilities for ESXi run on the Mac instead of blowing their resources on the sub-par product that no one needs anymore because most people need virtualization on the Mac to run Windows.
VMWARE HORIZON FOR MAC M1 FOR FREE
They can’t compete with Parallels, so they give it away for free just to hurt Parallels.įor Parallels, Mac virtualization is their prime revenue source. The current version of VMware Fusion that runs on the x86 architecture is completely free. That’s not where most of their revenue comes from, not even by a long shot. They don’t even give it as much attention as they do to the virtualization on Linux desktop, and virtualization on any desktop (including Windows) is already an afterthought for VMWare. I use VMware ESXi for work, so I understand what VMware does. Parallels was there first, and VMware never caught up. I’ve been doing virtualization in the Mac for over 10 years.
VMWARE HORIZON FOR MAC M1 UPGRADE
No timeframe has been provided for the public release of VMware Fusion for M1 Macs, and pricing and upgrade options remain to be seen.Īrticle Link: VMware Fusion for M1 Macs Now Available as Private Tech PreviewĬlick to expand.You don’t have to use subscription. Earlier this year, VMware competitor Parallels boasted about the ability to run the Arm-based Windows preview on an M1 Mac with Parallels Desktop 16.5, but fine print notes that customers are responsible for making sure they are compliant with an operating system's licensing agreement. Microsoft does not yet offer a retail version of Arm-based Windows, but a preview version is available to Windows Insider program members. In a blog post last April, Roy said "there isn't exactly much business value relative to the engineering effort that is required" to support Intel-based operating systems on M1 Macs, adding that VMware is "laser focused on making Arm Linux VMs on Apple silicon a delight to use." VMware Fusion will also not be able to virtualize Intel-based Windows or Linux distributions, while support for virtualizing macOS is not ready yet. That’s an awful lot of money to leave on the table and you better believe their hardware OEM’s won’t be happy either since they would being put at a distinct competitive disadvantage being forced to use 圆4 chips in mobile devices that need to be able to compete with ARM devices on low power consumption. I doubt Microsoft will want to miss out on that market just to keep Intel happy and I doubt they are spending all of this R&D money on an 圆4 to ARM translation layer only to limit it to their Surface hardware line. ARM is the processor of the future since the vast majority of devices going forward will be mobile. They are not going to do it while it’s in beta but once it’s ready for prime time it doesn’t make a lot of financial sense for Microsoft to keep it for in-house hardware only unless Intel is so scared of ARM they are willing to pay Microsoft billions to shut it down. Agreed but I think that it’s inevitable that Microsoft will release OEM, retail and/or SAS licenses of Windows on ARM.