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Windows 11 ARM64 on M1 Mac, not in a VM

Windows 11 ARM64 running on M1 Mac hardware without VM

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NWOAS boots Windows 11 ARM64 on an Apple Silicon Mac's own hardware, not inside a VM. Built on m1n1 and Project Mu UEFI (via the AppleWOA forks), it currently runs Windows from an M1 Mac mini's internal SSD alongside macOS Tahoe: all 8 CPU cores active, 15 GB RAM visible, native ARM64 execution scoring 1888 in Cinebench 2026 multi-core. Still research-grade: a second Mac orchestrates boot, and native GPU, networking, standalone boot, and power management are in progress. Fully open source.

PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 16 views

Niche: hardware device drivers and utility software · 178 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -5% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Windows
  • Open Source
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub
  • OpenAI Day

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Could you build this?

No Booting an unadapted OS bare-metal on Apple Silicon requires reverse-engineering proprietary hardware controllers, authoring custom UEFI firmware, and developing kernel-level drivers.

What it would actually take: Building this requires low-level systems engineering in C and ARM64 assembly. The architecture relies on an execution chain of custom bootloaders (m1n1 to Project Mu/EDK II UEFI) containing reverse-engineered ACPI tables for Apple Silicon hardware, coupled with custom Windows ARM64 kernel drivers for Apple's proprietary Apple Interrupt Controller (AIC), NVMe storage, and power management.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 409 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #311 of 410 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 306 days after the earliest competitor.

  • MacVM · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • WindowsiOS · github · 2026-11-08 · 119 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • 1VM · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • UniXNU · github · 2026-10-19 · 851 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • Hackintosh-XPS13Plus-IrisXe-Tahoe · github · 2026-10-21 · 135 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • VirtualIntelMacOnAppleSilicon · github · 2026-10-19 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Container · ph · 2026-10-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • bo2-mac · github · 2026-11-03 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.48

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