I think this is the ARM port of Windows 11 so it's running natively rather than emulating x86(_64) on ARM.
I assume it's running under a VM rather than directly on hardware. Running bare metal would require someone writing non-mac drivers for the hardware, which seems to be something only the Asahi folk seem to be have attempting.
It would be interesting to see how x86/x86_64 windows apps run under hosted win. I don't know what the performance characteristics of the windows x86->ARM translator, but I'd hope for being within cooie of Rosetta performance.
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How is this interesting? This is Windows 11 running in a Virtual Machine (specifically Parallels) on macOS.
I think this is the ARM port of Windows 11 so it's running natively rather than emulating x86(_64) on ARM.
I assume it's running under a VM rather than directly on hardware. Running bare metal would require someone writing non-mac drivers for the hardware, which seems to be something only the Asahi folk seem to be have attempting.
It would be interesting to see how x86/x86_64 windows apps run under hosted win. I don't know what the performance characteristics of the windows x86->ARM translator, but I'd hope for being within cooie of Rosetta performance.
Perhaps not everyone knows that it is possible, and runs at a reasonable speed?