[thoughtsimple]

Won’t work anyway. You can’t virtualize an Intel macOS on an Apple silicon VM. Unless you were just looking to transfer your data files. If so you can share a directory that is the external TM disk. (Not sure if you can do that with Parallels but the article author’s Viable works fine.)

[JeffSnazz]

Not even QEMU can manage it? I imagine it's slow of course, but I'm a little surprised that there's simply no solution. Is this a driver issue or something?

[pm215]

Generally if you say "virtualization" people will assume you mean "use the hardware support to run a VM on the host CPU". For that you must have the same host and guest CPU architecture. Anything else is "emulation", which is perfectly doable regardless of host OS and architecture but often slower than you might like. (QEMU's emulation is not particularly fast, certainly.)

[nrabulinski]

It’s possible and I’ve done it, it’s just unusably slow. If you want to use it solely for terminal usage then it’s bearable.

[userbinator]

QEMU can emulate it.

[j45]

There has to be a less than pleasant way to hackintosh a vm of the Macbook VM.

A non vm alternative in the meantime is buying and keeping a used iMac to use target disc mode to boot a backup off the hard drive. But who wants to do that.