Virtual machine performance is improved, up to 30 percent faster when a Windows 10 for ARM64 virtual machine is running on an M1-based Mac compared to Windows 10 running on a MacBook Air with an Intel Core i9 chip.This is great news for users of portable Macs, as running Windows historically has been a significant drain on battery life. The greater efficiency of the M1 chip means Parallels Desktop for Mac users 2.5 times less energy than on a 2020 Intel MacBook Air.scottgus1 Site Moderator Posts: 16609 Joined: 30.The muscle and energy-stingy features of Apple’s M1 processor gives a boost to Parallels, according to the company: If Virtualbox ever does get translated to ARM it is highly likely that it will only be able to run VMs with ARM operating systems, not x86 operating systems like Windows, Linux, or OSX10/Big Sur & descendants.

The Virtualbox developers do not reveal their plans for future releases of Virtualbox, so we on the forum do not and cannot know if Virtualbox will ever support the ARM-based Macs in the future. Regrettably this means that Virtualbox in its present form will not run on the ARM-based Macs. Virtualbox is not officially compiled for ARM. Virtualbox is not an emulator, so it cannot translate ARM instructions to an x86 computer, nor x86 instructions to an ARM computer. Virtualbox uses and is tuned to x86 CPU instructions, and runs in the x86 environment. Virtualbox is an x86 computer hardware simulator. Apple is making Macs with ARM-based CPUs, and the question has been raised if Virtualbox will run on these Macs.

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