In this video, I will be looking over 3 virtualization software solutions available for the Apple Silicon Macs, and comparing them in terms of performance, ease of use, and cost.

Original title: The State of Virtualization on Apple Silicon M1

The 3 softwares tested are UTM, Parallels Desktop, and VMware Fusion Player. For the testing, I used a base model M1 MacBook Air (8GB RAM, 7core GPU). Windows 11 (ARM64) (upgraded from Windows 10 on ARM) was used in Parallels Desktop only due to time constraints and software limitations. Alpine Linux was used as a benchmark on all 3 softwares.

UTM: https://mac.getutm.app/
Parallels Desktop: https://www.parallels.com/
VMware Fusion Player: https://customerconnect.vmware.com/we... for the license. For the technical preview: https://customerconnect.vmware.com/do...

Big thanks to my friend chrismin13 for the camera work!

===Chapters===
00:00 Introduction
01:26 Preface
02:20 UTM
07:27 Parallels Desktop
09:38 VMware Fusion
13:55 Conclusion