haxm VS UTM

Interesting. I remember playing with VT-x using Intel's HAXM framework [0] that installs its own Windows driver with a much nicer user-facing API. Allows you to spin up an empty, ready to go VM already in the 64-bit mode quite easily.

[0] https://github.com/intel/haxm

Windows 11 isn't listed as supported. This may prove of use if you want to try to get it running on Win11 anyway.

It is a valid argument, but they never really invested too much in the project and so I guess it capsized eventually.

I believe I had a problem with HAXM not being installed - so I have downloaded the latest version from GitHub - which installed and the log files seem to confirm that it is working and the "HAXM error" dialog box that was appearing in Studio no longer appears.

Fix the HAXM issue, going directly to Intel and downloading the HAXM installer seems to work for most people https://github.com/intel/haxm/releases, otherwise just keep googling a lot of suggestions on StackOverflow.

3) I went to the https://github.com/intel/haxm/wiki/Installation-Instructions-on-Windows website for the Intell HAXM troubleshoot.

If you have TrollStore then install the HV version of UTM to try for yourself: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/releases/latest/download/UTM.HV.ipa

Researching a little showed that this is basically what can be expected running x86 emulation and the systems will just be wonky and slow, although it was running flawlessly, just slow.

There seem to be ways to use Rosetta2 inside a VM [0] to then translate binaries but I found no official support or documentation (using UTM+QEMU that was), this would be such a cool feature, at least there are discussions about it [1,2]

- [0] https://mybyways.com/blog/using-rosetta-in-a-utm-linux-vm-wi...

- [1] https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/discussions/4939

- [2] https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/5460

UTM is open source too though: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM#license

UTM makes it easy to set up and manage macOS and Windows virtual machines. This can be especially useful for developers such as Tauri contributors who need to test their applications across multiple platforms, or for those looking to experiment with different operating systems without affecting their primary system.

If you don't need high performance and want to use the OS only occasionally, check UTM.app, at https://mac.getutm.app/ (or https://github.com/utmapp/UTM ). Free, open source.