Win 10 emulation on M1 Mac

Rick_Araujo · June 27, 2021, 8:24pm

Does it work on a native Windows X64 machine? I gave up on producing Xojo X64 windows apps few years ago because things like these.

Chris_Halford · June 27, 2021, 10:47pm

Yeah, it works great on a “real” system.
I’ve been distributing this one foe well over a year.
I only came to this Parallels solution to avoid buying a new win 10 laptop that I’d have to drag around with me.

anon20074439 · June 28, 2021, 10:36am

Maybe post the test code (it looks pretty simple) for others to try and see if it works on theirs so you can start narrowing down the settings differences (and draw something to show what architecture its being run on as people might forget to switch to 64b and claim it works)?

Chris_Halford · June 28, 2021, 11:01am

Really I was only drawing ovals and rectangles.

Try
G.drawOval 100,100,100,100

I can replicate it with that alone.

Yeah, thanks for the suggestion. If this works for anyone else I’d love to know what the differences in configuration are.

Anthony_G_Cyphers · June 28, 2021, 11:24am

My result:
Screen Shot 2021-06-28 at 7.19.47 AM

VM Settings
Configure for: Productivity
Processors: 6
Memory: 6196 MB
Graphics: Best for external displays

Works when using both Window.Paint and Canvas.Paint

Make sure that Windows, Parallels, and Parallels Tools are all up-to-date. I don’t see that you responded you’ve done this.

anon20074439 · June 28, 2021, 11:26am

Are both of you running the same hardware? e.g. one isn’t on a laptop’s display and one isn’t on an external screen?

Anthony_G_Cyphers · June 28, 2021, 11:28am

Mac Mini (M1, 2020)
Memory: 16GB
OS Version: 11.3
Displays: 2x 28" Samsung U28E590
Resolution: Default for Display (4K 1920x1080 scaled from 3840x2160)

Anthony_G_Cyphers · June 28, 2021, 11:31am

I still think it’s going to come down to Windows/Parallels/Parallels Tools updates. I used to see all kinds of drawing issues, but they’ve been fixed over time by updates, as I’ve said previously.

Chris_Halford · June 28, 2021, 11:36am

Everything is the latest.

Anthony_G_Cyphers · June 28, 2021, 11:36am

Really don’t know what to tell you, then. All working here.

Chris_Halford · June 28, 2021, 11:36am

MacBook Air M1

Chris_Halford · June 28, 2021, 11:37am

So bizarre.
I’ll double check my settings and make sure everything is updated.

Chris_Halford · June 28, 2021, 1:12pm

this is my windows version. What are you running?

Anthony_G_Cyphers · June 28, 2021, 2:10pm

Edition Windows 10 Pro
Version Dev
Installed on ‎5/‎28/‎2021
OS build 21390.2025
Experience Windows 10 Feature Experience Pack 321.13302.10.3

Looks like you’re a bit behind. I have 21390.2025 and you have 21354

Parallels Version: 50692

Chris_Halford · June 28, 2021, 3:06pm

Same version of Parallels as you.
Windows doesn’t seem to be showing any updates. I’ll have to dig in more.

Arnaud_N · June 28, 2021, 5:07pm

Ah, this probably explains why they’ve released a free version recently, then.

Michel_Bujardet · June 28, 2021, 5:24pm

The current VMWare Fusion 12 is Intel only.

Mike_D · July 23, 2021, 9:40pm

I’ve been running the Windows 10 ARM preview on my M1 mac under parallels - reading this thread, I decided to run Windows Update. Unfortuantely rather than updating Windows 10, it seems to be trying to force Windows 11 (and failing).

Anyone know how to stay on Windows 10 for ARM on M1 mac, and get the latest Windows updates, without going to Windows 11?

anon20074439 · July 23, 2021, 9:45pm

Untested, just googled it, gluck How to Specify Target Feature Update Version in Windows 10 | Tutorials (tenforums.com)

Anthony_G_Cyphers · July 23, 2021, 9:55pm

My VM updated silently in the middle of the night to Win11 and it’s been working fine. I actually like Win11 better, but there are some performance differences that I’m sure will be solved before release.