Important Note: Currently, the new M1 MacBook Air, M1 MacBook Pro, and M1 Mac Mini computers with do not yet support virtualization, and VirtualBox will not run on an M1 computer. We recommend students with Mac computers that use the Intel chipset use VirtualBox, which is a free application. Intel hardware is required (does not work on new M1 hardware).We recommend having even more space available if you want to be able to comfortably solve challenges in the Forensics Base which requires you to work with large files.

At least 25 GB of disk space for the VM that Game provides.300MB of available disk space for the application PLUS.An x86 64-bit processor, most recent Intel or AMD processor will work.mpack Site Moderator Posts: 37220 Joined: 4.You can find full installation information and guides for VirtualBox on the VirtualBox website here. If it's a simulator then those pictures don't tell you how long it took to get to that desktop, assuming the screenshot is simply fabricated. First, there are ARM builds of Windows, or x86 builds of their hypervisor, so those pictures could come from that. So while some of the alternatives might talk about Intel code on M1, they are talking about CPU simulation, which is fine for debugging, otherwise it's a toy.Īnd a strong beware of the sales blurb showing pretty pictures of a Windows 10 or 11 desktop. VirtualBox is not a CPU SIMULATOR, as that is a different animal entirely with much worse performance and most likely errors in detail that prevents a complex OS from running. This means that while the hardware is virtual, code runs directly on the host CPU at full speed, the host CPU therefore must be x86. VirtualBox is a hypervisor, as all of the practical alternatives are too. I will add that, as far as is known, the VirtualBox alternatives will not please you either, assuming your goal is to run x86 Windows or Linux code on a Mac in the manner you may be used to. See the sticky at the top of the this forum.

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