>Does anybody have experience running VFP on Parallels or VMWare Fusion on a Macbook with new M2 chip?
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>There's a huge wait for HP's latest replacement for my current one that is developing lines down the screen, and the M2 chip reportedly is quick +++ and can definitely run Windows in a VM. I have no problem running Windows on a MAC VM instead of a Windows PC... if it works and isn't dreadfully slow.

One client has one staff member with an M1 MacBook Air. She normally runs just MS Office 365 but Outlook would not initially work against an on-prem Exchange server. A temporary solution was to run Parallels and a Windows VM. Office within that ran fine, it was in fact quite snappy. There was no need to run VFP, I don't know if or how well that would work.

Some comments in no particular order:

- Apparently Parallels supports the M2 chip: https://kb.parallels.com/en/129009
- For Parallels, the Windows VM is Windows 11 on ARM: https://kb.parallels.com/125375 . That should run Win32 apps: https://kb.parallels.com/en/128458 (at the bottom)
- You may need to purchase or otherwise activate Win11 in the VM (maybe not if MS is still giving away the dev/tech "preview" version)
- I believe the Office apps on the Win11 VM were Office for Windows on ARM, that may be why those apps seemed snappy in the VM. I have no idea how much of a performance hit happens with x86 apps which would need to run on an emulation layer

If you're used to working with VMs on other platforms, Parallels is very different. It seems to focus on user-friendliness. For example, by default when you install it your Mac desktop gets copies of all the Windows VM desktop items. If you click on an item which belongs to the Windows VM it automatically launches the VM (if not already running) and switches to it so you can use that item in Windows. Basically, for better or worse the VM is tightly integrated with the Mac desktop.

The user ran into a couple of instances where the VM hung. It was not obvious how to do a hard reset/restart which fixed the issue.

Be prepared for *frequent* updates to both Parallels and Win11 on ARM, and apply them to avoid or fix weird bugs.

I have zero exposure to VMWare Fusion but I did find this article: https://www.howtogeek.com/849776/vmware-fusion-13-can-run-windows-on-your-m1-m2-mac/