I needed to partition an external hard disk drive with a NTFS partition. You should have access to the hard disk drive inside the virtual machine.
#WINDOWS VM ON MAC READ EXTERNAL DRIVES SERIAL#
currently logged user should have read and write access the serial port over USB.
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#WINDOWS VM ON MAC READ EXTERNAL DRIVES MAC OS#
After that, it should appear as active in the list of extension packages. Option 1: Install the drivers from youre Mac OS disk. VirtualBox will notify you that you are about to install an extension pack. Click the plus (+) button at the right, browse to the folder where you downloaded the extension, and open the extension package.
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I gave the VM the name Windows 10, added a note that this is Windows 10 on Apple Silicon, and added an optional operating system icon (see image below). Get them from the official downloads page. With UTM open on your M1 Mac, click the Create a New Virtual Machine button. In my case (OSX Catalina, Virtual Box 6.1 and Windows 10 virtualized), I managed to get it working by using the the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack.