Automations Studio support for configuration Paralles+Windows 10/11 running on MacBook

Any info about support of AS running on windows 10/11 for ARM architecture?

Hello,

I’ve been working on an Automation Studio project for years, using MacBook Pro that uses M1Max. B&R doesn’t officially support VM environments, but below have been tested in my development environment for years.

  1. Create remote install package
    → ok
  2. Connect between AS and PLC
    → ok but manually (DO NOT CLICK BROWSE see below)
  3. Interaction with Scene Viewer
    → ok
  4. Interaction with ABB Robot studio
    → ok…but, not sure (The exhibition demo using ABB robots and ACOPOStrak worked well.)
  5. SuperTrak
    → TrakMaster not work on Windows for ARM (Last check at Nov 2023. I’m not SuperTrak engineer…)
  6. ACOPOStrak
    → ok
  7. ACOPOS 6D
    → ok but, PMI tool not work
  8. mappVision
    → ok (Last check at Feb 2024)

As shown in the image below, clicking Browse in Online-Settings causes an error. Some PVI-SNMP-related drivers seem to depend strongly on x86. It would be great if PVI-based libraries are update to unified binaries

Best Regards,

As far as I know there are currently no plans to support ARM architecture CPUs

I’ve been developing on an M2 Macbook using parallels since mid 2023 without any issues. As @seunghwa said, the only thing that doesn’t really work is the browsing in the online settings view.

Windows 11 arm can run most 32-bit applications without issue, when you get to 64bit applications you usually need to make sure that it was compiled for ARM64 specifically before installing.