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Apple’s New ARM-Based Macs Won’t Support Windows Through Boot Camp

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday June 27 2020, @01:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-say-that-like-it's-a-bad-thing dept.

chromas writes:

Apple's New ARM-Based Macs Won't Support Windows Through Boot Camp:

Apple will start switching its Macs to its own ARM-based processors later this year, but you won't be able to run Windows in Boot Camp mode on them. Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to PC makers to preinstall on new hardware, and the company hasn't made copies of the operating system available for anyone to license or freely install.

"Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to OEMs," says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge. We asked Microsoft if it plans to change this policy to allow Windows 10 on ARM-based Macs, and the company says "we have nothing further to share at this time."

[...] Apple later confirmed it's not planning to support Boot Camp on ARM-based Macs in a Daring Fireball podcast. "We're not direct booting an alternate operating system," says Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering. "Purely virtualization is the route. These hypervisors can be very efficient, so the need to direct boot shouldn't really be the concern."

Previously: Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @04:15PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @04:15PM (#1013287)

    Purely virtualization is the route. These hypervisors can be very efficient, so the need to direct boot shouldn't really be the concern.

    So can I run my (legally owned) MacOS image on a hypervisor running Linux?

  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday June 27 2020, @05:45PM (1 child)

    by RamiK (1813) on Saturday June 27 2020, @05:45PM (#1013314)

    https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM [github.com]

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @06:33PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @06:33PM (#1013329)

      Very nice, looks like my Snow Leopard image with Rosetta support, still running on a decrepit 2007 MBP, could move to a VM. Wonder how it deals with the original graphics card not being present on the host.