diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8a3d4cb1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+name: Loading
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+    tags: '*'
+
+# needed for julia-actions/cache to delete old caches
+permissions:
+  actions: write
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    name: Julia ${{ matrix.version }} - ${{ matrix.os }} - ${{ matrix.arch }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        version:
+          - '1'    # latest stable 1.x release
+        os:
+          - 'ubuntu-latest'
+          - 'macOS-13'
+          - 'windows-latest'
+        arch:
+          - x64
+        include:
+          - os: macOS-latest
+            version: '1'
+            arch: aarch64
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v2
+        with:
+          version: ${{ matrix.version }}
+          arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
+
+      - uses: julia-actions/cache@v2
+      - uses: julia-actions/julia-buildpkg@v1
+
+      - name: Run tests
+        uses: julia-actions/julia-runtest@v1
diff --git a/lib/mps/ndarray.jl b/lib/mps/ndarray.jl
index 4384ff1e5..2c52bab95 100644
--- a/lib/mps/ndarray.jl
+++ b/lib/mps/ndarray.jl
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ export MPSNDArray
 
 @objcwrapper immutable=false MPSNDArray <: NSObject
 
-@static if Metal.macos_version() >= v"15"
+@static if Metal.is_macos(v"15")
     @objcproperties MPSNDArray begin
         @autoproperty dataType::MPSDataType
         @autoproperty dataTypeSize::Csize_t
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ function MPSNDArray(device::MTLDevice, scalar)
     return obj
 end
 
-@static if Metal.macos_version() >= v"15"
+@static if Metal.is_macos(v"15")
     function MPSNDArray(buffer::MTLBuffer, offset::UInt, descriptor::MPSNDArrayDescriptor)
         arrayaddr = @objc [MPSNDArray alloc]::id{MPSNDArray}
         obj = MPSNDArray(arrayaddr)
diff --git a/lib/mtl/device.jl b/lib/mtl/device.jl
index fccbebc1e..db7feecd2 100644
--- a/lib/mtl/device.jl
+++ b/lib/mtl/device.jl
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@
 
 export MTLDevice, MTLCreateSystemDefaultDevice, devices
 
+@static if Metal.is_macos(v"14")
+    @objcwrapper MTLArchitecture <: NSObject
+
+    @objcproperties MTLArchitecture begin
+        @autoproperty architecture::id{NSString}
+    end
+end
+
 @objcwrapper MTLDevice <: NSObject
 
 @objcproperties MTLDevice begin
diff --git a/src/state.jl b/src/state.jl
index 2208f739e..3a0512e52 100644
--- a/src/state.jl
+++ b/src/state.jl
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ function device()
     get!(task_local_storage(), :MTLDevice) do
         dev = MTLDevice(1)
         if !supports_family(dev, MTL.MTLGPUFamilyApple7)
-            @warn """Metal.jl is only supported on Apple Silicon, you may run into issues.
+            @warn """Metal.jl is only supported on non-virtualized Apple Silicon, you may run into issues.
                      See https://github.com/JuliaGPU/Metal.jl/issues/22 for more details.""" maxlog=1
         end
         if !supports_family(dev, MTL.MTLGPUFamilyMetal3)
diff --git a/src/version.jl b/src/version.jl
index 0d2c4ffec..87b778c34 100644
--- a/src/version.jl
+++ b/src/version.jl
@@ -56,6 +56,23 @@ Returns the host macOS version.
 See also [`Metal.darwin_version`](@ref).
 """ macos_version
 
+"""
+    Metal.is_macos([ver::VersionNumber]) -> Bool
+
+Returns whether the OS is macOS with version `ver` or newer.
+
+See also [`Metal.macos_version`](@ref).
+"""
+function is_macos(ver=nothing)
+    if !Sys.isapple()
+        false
+    elseif ver === nothing
+        true
+    else
+        macos_version() >= ver
+    end
+end
+
 
 ## support queries
 
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 187b5b9b8..f93c638c2 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -1,7 +1,33 @@
 using Distributed
 using Dates
-import REPL
+using Metal
 using Printf: @sprintf
+import REPL
+using Test
+
+# Quit without erroring if Metal loaded without issues on unsupported platforms
+if !Sys.isapple()
+    @warn """Metal.jl succesfully loaded on non-macOS system.
+             This system is unsupported but should still load.
+             Skipping tests."""
+    Sys.exit()
+else # if Sys.isapple()
+    archchecker = occursin(read(`xcrun metal-arch --name`, String))
+    if archchecker("Paravirtual") # Virtualized graphics (probably Github Actions runners)
+        @warn """Metal.jl succesfully loaded on macOS system with unsupported Paravirtual graphics.
+                 This system is unsupported but should still load.
+                 Skipping tests."""
+        Sys.exit()
+    elseif !archchecker("applegpu") # Every other unsupported system (Intel or AMD graphics)
+        @warn """Metal.jl succesfully loaded on macOS system with unsupported graphics.
+                 This system is unsupported but should still load.
+                 Skipping tests."""
+        Sys.exit()
+    end
+end
+
+# If we ever error here, fix above
+Metal.functional() || error("Metal.jl is not functional on this system. This is unexpected; please file an issue.")
 
 # parse some command-line arguments
 function extract_flag!(args, flag, default=nothing)
diff --git a/test/setup.jl b/test/setup.jl
index 4694234c9..4d56bcf20 100644
--- a/test/setup.jl
+++ b/test/setup.jl
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 using Distributed, Test, Metal, Adapt, ObjectiveC, ObjectiveC.Foundation
 
-Metal.functional() || error("Metal.jl is not functional on this system")
-
 # GPUArrays has a testsuite that isn't part of the main package.
 # Include it directly.
 import GPUArrays