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Windows 11 (ARM64) VMs on macOS. On an Apple Silicon Mac, App Sandbox can
now create and run Windows 11 ARM guests -- previously a macOS host could only
run macOS guests. The Windows guest gets its own display window, keyboard and
mouse, sound, clipboard (including copying files to and from your Mac),
one-click SSH, and networking, and is built from a Windows 11 ARM64 ISO you
provide. It uses QEMU, EDK2 on Apple's Hypervisor Framework as the firmware and
virtaulization platform, and IVSHMEM to enable host <-> VM communication. -
Non-ASCII usernames and passwords now work when creating a VM through the
scriptable API. Characters outside plain ASCII (for example Chinese) arrive
from the API JSON-escaped; App Sandbox stored the escape sequences literally
instead of decoding them, so a VM created via the API with such a credential
would reject the login. They are now decoded correctly. (The desktop app was
unaffected.) -
The virtual display now recovers if it gets disabled in the guest. The
guest agent kept trying to restart the App Sandbox display driver -- which
can't re-enable a disabled device -- so the picture never came back; it is now
re-enabled and recovers. -
Various stability and bug fixes across the Windows and macOS components.
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Windows VMs on macOS are not GPU-accelerated.