Windows 11 Runs on M1 Mac! (Virtual Machine Tutorial Proof of Concept using UTM QEMU)

This is a quick proof of concept experiment to see how Windows 11 x86_64 would run on M1 macOS under a virtual machine, which you can tell is extremely slow. If you can figure out a way to make this virtual machine run faster please leave a comment! I also experimented with bare QEMU 6.0.0 but had issues installing to the qcow2 which showed up as 0 bytes – if anyone can figure out how to improve performance I’d be really interested!

For much better performance, run Windows 10 ARM on Parallels:
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Tutorial Part 1: Install Windows Parallels on M1 Mac: https://youtu.be/DCwIN4Zqduc
Tutorial Part 2: Parallels Advanced Gaming Setup: https://youtu.be/1X-3p34Hb7o

I recorded this on my MacBook Air M1 2020 with 8 GB of RAM and 8 GPU cores.

Things you’ll need for this tutorial:
UTM for macOS: https://mac.getutm.app
Windows 11 ISO: 21996.1.210529-1541.co_release_CLIENT_CONSUMER_x64FRE_en-us.iso

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