"Developing Windows apps on a non-Windows PC" Does not Address ARM64 Macs

[NickGerleman]

This page is targeted towards Mac users. They are all going to ARM64, for which the documented solution will not work.

https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows-samples/blob/main/docs/win10-vm.md

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[chrisglein]

@NickGerleman That page basically just tells you to run it in a VM. Is that not going to work with the move to ARM64? If not... what is the solution? What are people doing? Running an Azure VM in a browser should still work, right?

[NickGerleman]

All but one of the listed options are x86 only. Parallels supports ARM64, but Windows doesn't officially allow consumers to license Windows for ARM64. The page also references downloading a Windows 10 dev environment, which doesn't support ARM64.

Basically none of the local VM section applies to modern Macs, which was kind of the purpose of the doc to begin with.

[asklar]

@NickGerleman Our team doesn't have expertise with macs, do you have some solutions/proposals? Feel free to send a PR to the docs!