Timeline for Is it possible to install a device driver for windows on mac OS?
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| May 5, 2023 at 15:21 | comment | added | Tetsujin | @AlexanderO'Mara - UTM doesn't need the installed guest OS to be ARM-specific. We're still down to … just try it & see. It's not something any of us are going to be able to test as we don't have the first clue what the hardware is or what driver it may need. The OP will have to do it. | |
| May 5, 2023 at 15:17 | comment | added | Alexander O'Mara | UTM just happens to be able to do both virtualization (VM) or emulation (which isn't a VM unless you use the term loosly). It won't help you emulate an x86 driver inside an ARM VM though, so it's likely you will need to emulate the whole machine. | |
| May 5, 2023 at 6:55 | comment | added | Tetsujin | @AlexanderO'Mara - it depends on how you're virtualising & what the VM software can do compared to what the OS can do. Parallels doesn't emulate, so it's ARM only. UTM does emulate, all kinds of things, ARM, PPC [but not GPU]… Try it & see. | |
| May 4, 2023 at 20:04 | comment | added | Mast | Installing drivers in a VM to communicate with connected hardware while the host OS does not understand the device... That's always a gamble. I don't know what the success-rate on Macs is, but with other OS combo's I've given up on that approach. | |
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| May 3, 2023 at 18:51 | comment | added | Alexander O'Mara | NOTE: If driver means Intel kernel driver you can't run it on ARM Windows, ruling out virtualization on Apple Silicon. Windows for ARM cannot emulate kernel drivers, so you would need an ARM kernel driver which are uncommon at this point. Emulating an Intel Windows install would be the only (slower) option. | |
| May 3, 2023 at 8:15 | vote | accept | Nitzan R | ||
| May 2, 2023 at 18:59 | history | edited | Tetsujin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 2, 2023 at 7:41 | history | answered | Tetsujin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |