With Homebrew installed, open a Terminal window and run the following: brew install qemu You can install it with the command on the Homebrew website. The following steps require that Homebrew is installed. To prevent this, we’re advised to convert the VHDX file to a QCOW2 file, as follows.

Convert the VHDX Image to a QCOW2 ImageĪccording to the UTM documentation, sometimes the QEMU handling of VHDX images will result in Windows becoming corrupted. We will use this later, when we install Windows.

Under the SPICE Guest Tools and QEMU Drivers (Windows) heading, click Download.

It’s quite a large file (mine is 9.74 GB), so it might take a while to download. In my case this blue button reads Windows 10 Client ARM64 Insider Preview – Build 21354.

Click the button to download the installation file.

Once done, the page will display the download link for the installation file. If you’re not logged in or part of the program, follow the instructions on the page to log in and/or join the Windows Insider Program. If you are already logged in and you’re part of the Windows Insider Program, you’re good to go.

The instructions on the page depend on whether you’re logged in, and whether you’re part of the Windows Insider Program.

Go to the Windows Insider Preview Downloads page.

You can open it just as you can open other applications (e.g.

Drag the UTM.app icon to your Applications folder.

Once downloaded, double click the UTM.dmg file to launch it.

Go to the UTM website and click Download.

We can use UTM to install other operating systems (such as Windows) on our M1 Mac. UTM employs Apple’s Hypervisor virtualization framework to run ARM64 operating systems on Apple Silicon at near native speeds.īasically, it enables us to create virtual machines on our M1 Mac. Install UTMįirst step is to install UTM (it’s free). This requires an account with the Windows Insider Program (you can register for free). It also involves installing the Windows 10 on ARM Insider Preview. The key to doing this is to use the UTM virtualisation application instead of VirtualBox. In this article, I install Windows 10 on an M1 Mac. VirtualBox is a free virtualisation application that enables you to install virtual machines (with other operating systems) on your Mac.įortunately, there’s a free alternative to VirtualBox – UTM. Prior to the M1 Mac, we could use VirtualBox to install Windows on our Mac. One application that doesn’t run on M1 Macs is VirtualBox. This was a major change, and it affected many third party applications to the point where they simply don’t run on the M1 Mac. In 2020, Apple introduced Mac computers with Apple silicon, with the first chip being the Apple M1.

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