Windows 11 on ARM on macOS on M1 MacBook – cold boot to running Visual Studio

[wiso]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2ATnQIOGw

[tus666]

LOL and VS still loaded slower the VS5.0 running on Win2k on a PC made in 2002.

The boot time was impressive though.

[cable2600 → tus666]

Yes my i5 Windows 10 machines takes longer to boot, but then I don't have a SSD virtual hard drive.

[orionblastar → tus666]

They should port VS to native Macos and Linux platforms.

[Someone → orionblastar]

I do not know whether it’s a port, but there’s https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/

[rewgs → Someone]

This is nothing like VS, though I suppose one could be forgiven for thinking otherwise due to Microsoft’s complete inability to pick anything other than the most confusing name possible for any given product.

[tsujp]

How is this interesting? This is Windows 11 running in a Virtual Machine (specifically Parallels) on macOS.

[olliej → tsujp]

I think this is the ARM port of Windows 11 so it's running natively rather than emulating x86(_64) on ARM.

I assume it's running under a VM rather than directly on hardware. Running bare metal would require someone writing non-mac drivers for the hardware, which seems to be something only the Asahi folk seem to be have attempting.

It would be interesting to see how x86/x86_64 windows apps run under hosted win. I don't know what the performance characteristics of the windows x86->ARM translator, but I'd hope for being within cooie of Rosetta performance.

[pornel → tsujp]

Perhaps not everyone knows that it is possible, and runs at a reasonable speed?

[boywitharupee]

This looks really fast.

[ftyhbhyjnjk]

How?

[theodric → ftyhbhyjnjk]

Windows 11 ARM in Parallels. Did you watch the video?