UTM running Windows 10 on an M1 iPad Pro (virtualized at full speed)

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Does this mean one can actually use multiple apps open and running at a time on an iPad without that weird Stage manager thing?

It would be incredible if UTM could run an ARM Linux desktop as an “app” on iPad! Use ios as the base OS, and do multi taking in Linux! That’d be perfect! Simply closing the “Linux App” would be like Linux machine going to sleep.. I’d happily pay for that setup. Best of both worlds.

Awhile back I tried running Windows under UTM on an M1 Mac. x86 versions were unusable, but even the ARM versions of Windows seemed to barely work. It appears that Windows 10 Arm allows x86 binaries but Windows 11 Arm allows x64 binaries [1]? And didn't Microsoft pull the ISO for Windows 10 on Arm? Can anyone recommend a configuration for Windows on M1 that actually worked?

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/overview

Parallels runs ARM Windows 11 smooth as silk.

Not on an iPad it doesn't.

Is this the arm version of windows?

Given they qualify “full speed” I’m pretty sure it is.

Does anyone have an opinion on ARM Windows? Is it anywhere near the experience of regular x86 Windows? Do things like WSL and most apps work as expected (is the x86 virtualization anywhere near as good as Rosetta).

The most annoying thing is drivers do not appear to work entirely. I tried to get a printer driver working so I could configure the printer’s wireless, and it just bluescreen’d. The printer is 5-6 years old now, and they released updated drivers for Window 10, but yeah .. no dice.

Are they arm drivers, or can arm Windows use x64 drivers?

They’re x86/64 drivers, unsure if windows does the translation for ARM

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