If the topic of virtualization interests you, check out some more of our posts on the subject. There are many other options available for virtualization, including the free UTM app which allows you to easily run Windows 11 on an Apple Silicon Mac for example, but there’s also paid solutions including VMWare and Parallels. Go to to find the appropriate download, listed as “Developer preview for macOS / Arm64 (M1/M2) hosts”.Apart from the aforementioned software, M1 users do not currently have many options to run Linux on their machines. Since we are running an ARM version of Linux everything should run smoothly and without any transition. Parallels Desktop 17 also offers Ubuntu support on M1 Macs, but the price starts at 79.99. As usual, VirtualBox is completely free to download and to use. Parallels is a good example of a virtualization solution. UTM provides some ready-made VMs that you can download and install, which lets you hit the ground running and not worry about configuring your own machine. While technically in beta, anyone can get access to the developer preview beta ARM build of VirtualBox through the VirtualBox website. It does this by virtualizing hardware (that you can adjust to allocate RAM, storage capacity, etc), so the operating system itself doesn’t know that it’s not running on actual hardware. VirtualBox is virtualization software that allows you to run other operating systems in containers on your Mac directly from the application, for example you can run Linux or Windows directly within VirtualBox, and without having to use dual-booting or anything else.
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