VMWare Fusion has announced that a “tech preview” of its virtualization app with support for macOS Big Sur is coming in early July.
Among other features, macOS Big Sur lays the groundwork for an upcoming Mac shift to proprietary Apple Silicon.
Aside from announcing the tech preview, VMWare didn’t offer any other details about how its own virtualization software will support macOS Big Sur — or how it’ll be supported by ARM-based chips. In a subsequent tweets, VMWare Fusion asked its followers how they’d use Fusion on ARM.
VMware Fusion@VMwareFusionShare with us your big dreams… how would you use Fusion on ARM? https://twitter.com/mikeroySoft/status/1275483550985318400 …
Michael Roy@mikeroySoftSo everyone wants to know about Fusion on Apple Silicon macs of the future…
What I’d like to ask the community: What do you want to see and why?
Knowing that Windows or Linux guests must be ARM only, what would you use it for?
Current virtualization software won’t work without support on ARM-based platforms, though Apple has said that macOS Big Sur introduces “virtualization technology” that will allow users to run Linux on machines with Apple Silicon.
During its WWDC 2020 keynote, Apple showed off a Mac with an ARM A12Z Bionic chipset running a Linux distribution in Parallels, suggesting that the company is working to support virtualization software through the transition.
Other Intel-based apps will continue to run on ARM Macs with the help of Apple’s Rosetta 2 emulation technology. The shift to ARM chips will also allow future Macs to run iPad and iOS apps natively.
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