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Discussion on: A Developers perspective on the M1 MacBook Pro after 5 months of usage

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There is one giant elephant in the room that I see being a big problem for developers and Mac's with the M1/Pro/Max. VirtualBox does not have a version that works with the ARM chips yet. If you use Vagrant and VirtualBox all the time, then this is a significant issue.

I'm in the process of trying to get VMware or Parallels working with some of the projects I work on, but it has not been easy and I have yet to find a solution. Unfortunately to even test VMware or Parallels I think you need the paid version, which is costly when you are not even sure if it will be a good solution.

I'd love to hear others thoughts about this, and or what you are doing to get around this road block. I've been trying to get a work Laravel site using Homestead working, but so far haven't had any luck.