Why would you want to pay $9.99 when the app is free? Because you’ll get automatic updates just like any other Mac app downloaded from the Mac App Store. To download the app you go directly to the app download page and either click the Download button or click the Mac App Store button to pay $9.99 for the app. It’s quite simple to download UTM for Mac. Let’s see an example of how UTM works on M1 Macs. However, your devices must be running iOS 11 – 13 iOS 14 requires a jailbreak. If you’ve ever had a burning desire to run Windows on an iPhone or iPad, UTM does the job. UTM also works on “the other Apple Silicon”, with versions of both iOS and iPadOS. It’s free to download or $9.99 on the Mac App Store. That’s why I was happy to see that there is a VM environment that works on M1 Macs – UTM. VMWare has pledged an Apple Silicon version of Fusion, but it won’t support Windows virtual machines! There’s still no word on whether the free VirtualBox VM environment will ever be updated to run on Apple Silicon. UPDATE (July 9, 2021): Parallels Desktop now runs on Apple Silicon, a solution that was not available in March of 2021 when this article was first published.
UTM (which I believe stands for Universal Turing Machine) is an open source virtual machine environment. While you might be spending most of your time in macOS 11 Big Sur, your job might require you to use Windows-only apps, Perhaps you need a Linux VM for development work. For those folks, it comes highly recommended.Your shiny and speedy new Apple Silicon Mac is missing something – the ability to run virtual machines. Oracle supporters, IT professionals, developers, and anyone else who likes to play around with open-source software will almost certainly love using VirtualBox. If VirtualBox ever hopes to expand its reach beyond its ideal type of users, a good place to begin would be to improve documentation in this regard.Īs things stand, the installation process, depending on your skill level, could quickly feel like an unwelcoming trip to Wonderland. Better still, the language used to explain any recommended settings should be expanded.įinally, while VirtualBox supports a large number of operating systems (and versions), any assistance it provides in finding those systems to download, especially the older ones, is mostly lacking. Specifically, VirtualBox could do a better job of explaining the importance of each step in the process. Overall, I found the installation process somewhat easy to perform, although some of the prompts didn't make sense. For virtual machines, I selected the latest version of Windows and Ubuntu Linux 64-bit. Installationįor this review, I installed VirtualBox 6.1.2 on my 2018 MacBook Pro. On a positive note, VirtualBox 6.1, which arrived in early January, has improved the interface greatly, however. This rough design of VirtualBox itself makes it look older and less crisp than any other app on your Mac.
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