[tallytarik]

As others have pointed out, Virtualbox doesn't work on ARM (M1).

A few months ago I switched to a new setup on my M1 Max: running a Ubuntu VM in UTM (https://mac.getutm.app/), and installing Docker there.

I use Mutagen (https://mutagen.io/) for syncing files between macOS and the VM, which works really well.

There is a 10x-20x speed improvement running a large PHP (Drupal) project through the VM than Docker for Mac.

[lmarcos]

One can use Vagrant and VMware (instead of Virtualbox) on ARM M1. VMware fusion is free and Hashicorp has released the VMware vagrant plugin for free as well.

[blondin]

oh wow, i had no idea!

do you know by any chance if vmware fusion has support for pxe boot?

[cdubzzz]

Any additional guidance or resources you can point to for setup with UTM and Mutagen? Lando on macOS with Docker Desktop is driving me insane...

[tallytarik]

It was pretty straightforward, following UTM's setup guide for Ubuntu, Docker's setup guide, and Mutagen's:

- https://mac.getutm.app/gallery/ubuntu-20-04 - https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/ - https://mutagen.io/documentation/introduction/installation

I create my Mutagen sync with a command like:

   mutagen sync create --name=mysite ~/Sites/mysite ubuntu@192.168.64.2:~/mysite --ignore=node_modules,vendor --ignore-vcs --default-owner-alpha=tallytarik --default-group-alpha=staff

As well as the `--default-owner-` switches, I had some file permission issues on the Docker side. I ended up using `setfacl` to enforce really permissive permissions on `~/mysite` on the VM side, otherwise some Docker containers would complain. It turns out Docker for Mac fakes some file permissions, which is why it wasn't a problem before.

Other than that, it mostly just worked! Feel free to get in touch if you have more specific questions.