Hello,
I would like to ask, is there any option how to emulate Big Sur (eventually older versions) on MacBook with M1 and Monterey OS?
Thank you.
Emulate Big Sur on M1 Monterey
Hi there,
You might have better luck asking this question over in Apple Support Communities run by Apple Support.
Emulating x86-64 system hardware and processor on an Apple silicon Arm AArch64 system hardware and processor, sufficient to boot an operating system?
From Apple? Absolutely not going to happen. Rosetta 2 does user-mode x86-64 emulation, uses calls macOS itself to run the macOS code, and is not full hardware emulation.
From QEMU or such, maybe, possibly, probably. This with the older operating system booted as a guest, with both virtualization and emulation active. Won't be speedy.
More generally, it's time to update or to replace or to retire your remaining x86-64-only apps, or to lock down your hardware and software plans and accrue the spare parts necessary to remain on an older version and older hardware for the foreseeable future for whatever now-older apps are in use here.