I have downloaded "MacOS / Intel hosts" version of virtual box but when trying to install, it says "The installer has detected an unsupported architecture. VirtualBox only runs on the amd64 architecture"
Can someone help and guide on this ??
I have tried customer service and they know nothing about it
Mac mini, macOS 14.0
An Intel version of anything will not work on M1 / M2 Macs.
As for your Mac Mini please refer to M1/M2 Mac 7.0 Beta Status
Pull quote:
"The M1/M2 Mac ARM 7.0 Beta Technical Preview is a work in progress that will take some time to complete."
and when you installed the virtualbox arm then you will only be able to install iso of operating systems made for arm cpus as virtual machines are not emulators so intel x86 windows images or linxu images will not work.
If you are looking for a virtual machine program, you might want to take a look at:
Note that on a M2 Mac mini, these can only run ARM-based operating systems: e.g., Windows 11 for ARM. If you install Windows 11, you will have to pay Microsoft for it separately. You may encounter some emulation/translation overhead, and some limitations, when running off-the-shelf Windows software built for use on Intel chips.
Microsoft Support – Options for using Windows 11 with Mac® computers with Apple® M1® and M2™ chips
Trying to install virtual box on Mac Mini M2 Chip
