Performance is comparable to running Windows virtual machines on Intel Macs, and will of course improve with time as both Parallels Desktop and the Windows 11 on ARM Insider Preview are updated.Īlternatively, if free options are desired, the VMware Fusion Tech Preview can be set up and, through a series of steps, the Windows 11 on ARM Insider Preview can be installed to provide another way to virtualize Windows on macOS.

The main application user interface is not accessible (due to the fact it was written using the QT framework), but an application like VOCR can be used to mitigate this issue and set up the Windows virtual machine.

Parallels Desktop, for example, allows you to set up a Windows 11 on ARM Insider Preview virtual machine, complete with sound, that can then be used to run traditional Windows applications including NVDA and NVDA Remote. A viable and simple solution nobody seems to have mentioned yet is to set up a Windows virtual machine on your M1 Mac, either by purchasing a copy of Parallels Desktop (officially supported) or by installing a free copy of the VMware Fusion Tech Preview and using advanced configuration steps to get it to run Windows (unsupported but still works for the time being).

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