# ROS GUI on MacBook Air (M1 chip)

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**Created:** [September 4, 2022, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-gui-on-macbook-air-m1-chip/27205 "2022-09-04T14:47:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-gui-on-macbook-air-m1-chip/27205/6 "2022-09-09T15:53:05Z")

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hi Surafel,

I also own a mac with m1 and installing ROS and and dependencies from source is a nightmare. I tried in the past some virtual machines like VirtualBox and their performance was terrible.  
I heard about parallels, a virtual machine for Mac and I got surprised on how well ros2 Is working under Ubuntu. I was sceptical about running GUIs and visualizations, but Gazebo and RVIZ are surprisingly working perfectly for me. Give it a try!

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