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  • 1.  Enabling Virtualization on Windows 11 Arm Fusion (Apple M1 Processor)

    Posted Nov 17, 2023 02:30 PM

    Hi there, I'm trying to enable Virtualization on a Windows 11 Arm running on Fusion 13.5 through an Apple M1 Processor. When I boot to the Windows 11 BIOS it looks very bare bones, and I don't see any option for 'Virtualization Technology' or 'SVM Mode'. Has anyone had success doing this? Does Fusion 13.5 support Virtualization?



  • 2.  RE: Enabling Virtualization on Windows 11 Arm Fusion (Apple M1 Processor)
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    Posted Nov 17, 2023 02:48 PM
     wrote:

    Hi there, I'm trying to enable Virtualization on a Windows 11 Arm running on Fusion 13.5 through an Apple M1 Processor. When I boot to the Windows 11 BIOS it looks very bare bones, and I don't see any option for 'Virtualization Technology' or 'SVM Mode'. Has anyone had success doing this? Does Fusion 13.5 support Virtualization?

    Not on Apple Silicon. . Nested virtualization isn’t supported by Apple on Apple Silicon Macs, so Fusion can’t support it.

    That also means that Windows technologies such as WSL 2 and Hyper-V don’t work. WSL 1 does because it doesn’t need nested virtualization.

    The M1 cpu doesn’t have the hardware support for nested virtualization. It has been reported that the M2 (and maybe M3) do, but Apple has yet to enable that in their virtualization frameworks in macOS. 



  • 3.  RE: Enabling Virtualization on Windows 11 Arm Fusion (Apple M1 Processor)

    Posted Nov 17, 2023 03:17 PM

    I very much appreciate the insight. I've been racking my brain for an answer longer than I would like to admit. Thank you for your time!