![]() ![]() If that last guess is correct, it would explain a lot, as both the esxi cash cow and workstation don't have ARM releases yet. Fusion on ARM seemed to be somewhat limbo last year - no insider knowledge, but suspect that it's a combination of distractions from broadcom, pandemic staffing, microsoft windows licensing debates (aka their largest market), and the use of shared code (especially guest tools) between Esxi, workstation and Fusion. I've been a Fusion user/supporter/fan since before 1.0, but don't have blinders on. Parallels still uses kext's and probably uses their own network stack (though that advantage is going to disappear, likely in October when I believe Apple will finally depreciate them). The performance and stability of the network stack dropped substantially when Fusion moved from their own stack to Apple's stack. Very different requirements and capabilities (it's essentially bridging rosetta inside linux guests) - not at all suited for a virtualization product like Fusion. That's for applications inside a linux guest - not an entire operating system. About the only thing I can do is try this testing under Parallels (slim chance it will perform better -may suffer the same issue as Fusion or the problem may be down inside Apple's amework). (That's mega-BITS not mega-BYTES!) How does one produce software so bad that the performance drops from 970Mbps to 212Mbps or 65Mbps? Granted, this is likely Apple's fault, but who really knows -maybe the Fusion developers aren't exchanging a full window of packets per system call (and/or are employing bad algorithms to determine window size), resulting in excessive overhead and kernel mode trips, but we can only speculate and this issue can only be solved by a company with a contract with Apple to use the Bridged entitlement, meaning VMware. (If I first configure it with an IP address in macOS, it can sustain 970Mbps upload and download from within SpeedTest on the Intel Mac host.) If I don't configure it with an IP address (or even if I do) and instead let it be accessed exclusively by Fusion 13's "Fusion Bridge" (that, in turn, uses Apple's amework to provision a vmnet running with Apple's Bridged-networking entitlement, or at least root permission, which obviates the need for said entitlement), then the performance on that Ethernet adapter is reduced to about 212Mbps upload and 65Mbps download under the best network conditions. See also:īut it might not matter at all because the network performance just isn't there in Fusion 13, and network performance is fundamental to almost every task one would resort to using a VM for! As a test, I dedicated a wired GbE Ethernet adapter in the host Intel-based Mac 6, 1 to "Fusion Bridge". ![]() This means that VMware could theoretically create some sort of converter utility, though it probably would need to rebuild the source VM into a special target rather than allowing it to be passed back and forth between Intel and ARM64 hosts. Even if the internal partitioning wasn't supported, being able to boot a USB/Thunderbolt drive would be a good option to have.Despite what is being said on these forums, it is possible to precompile Intel binaries to run as VMs on Apple Silicon with the (now mandatory) macOS built-in hypervisor framework. ![]() VMWare said they wouldn't support Windows until Microsoft officially supported it:īootcamp is still unlikely but it should at least be officially supported now. The Qualcomm exclusivity deal reportedly expiring soon after November 2021 is probably the reason for this support from VMWare now: "While it is a little early, and things on Apple silicon don't always behave like we're used to on Intel, we're thrilled to be able to share the work we've been doing to prepare support for Windows 11 virtual machines on Fusion, for both Intel and Apple silicon Macs." VMWare says that it's looking for user feedback as it "irons out kinks" and prepares for more formal support later in 2022. VMWare has announced that its upcoming update to VMWare Fusion will bring Windows 11 support to both Intel-based and Apple Silicon machines. ![]()
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