VMware on Apple silicon running Windows10/11

Hi SUG Apple Mac Users,

Has anyone a successful working installation of Sailwave running under VMware with Windows 10/11 on an Apple MacBook Pro with Apple silicon CPU in particular?

A SUG Member posted a few months ago, in this thread Successful install of Sailwave on a Silicon MacBook M1 and a Silicon Macbook M4 with WINE - #10 by huw, that they had done so successfully and would write something when they had some more working experience.

Kind regards,
Huw

Hi Huw.

I am running SW 2.38 under PlayOnMac on my 2017 iMac and it works fine. I also had it running on my 2014 MacBook Air until that died and I replaced it with a M2 MacBook. I tried PlayOnMac but could not get it installed, so I tried Crossover but got the crash when resulting handicap races (as I commented on another thread). I subsequently used Team Viewer to link back to the iMac (but you can do the same to a PC) and remotely run SW, which worked just fine.

A couple of months ago I came across UTM. I installed it on the M2, installed Windows11 and then SW - and it runs perfectly. It is fast to launch - double click UTM, start the VM, log into Windows and start SW - sounds a lot but takes moments. We keep our .blw files on a shared Google Drive, so installed that on Windows and it all works. A good and free solution that seems to work. The UTM site has all the UTM and Windows install instructions/guidance that I needed.

Cheers

Alastair

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Hi Alastair,

Thank you very much for sharing and hopefully your information will be useful to others trying to or are using Sailwave on Apple Mac system with Apple M# CPU’s.

Although I do not have access to any apple devices I am going to go and read up so I am more informed and can add something to the User Guide.

Kind regards,
Huw