Randolph West shares some notes:
We Apple product folks have been through a journey with the Microsoft data platform and Arm64 support, haven’t we? When the M1-based Apple silicon laptops were released, we couldn’t run Windows x64 in a virtual machine at all. Then Parallels managed to get a build of Windows 11 Arm64 going, but that meant we couldn’t run SQL Server … reliably, anyway. Some versions could install sometimes, but it was unpredictable.
It looks like neither product runs perfectly, but they both work better than I expected.