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by denfromufa 1458 days ago
Does Rosetta still work in the virtualized MacOS when using Apple’s virtualization framework?
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Yes: Just now I checked TextEdit's "Open with Rosetta" box in Get Info, launched it, and saw it come up as an Intel process in Activity Monitor.

This was in a Ventura beta 2 VM run with Apple's virtualization sample project: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...

One limitation I have observed is that this VM can't host another VM itself.
Reportedly M2 supports nested virtualization though.
But why would you ever want to?
Docker desktop for macOS requires a linux vm on the macOS host, so nested virtualization is required if you want to use docker desktop inside the macOS guest.

Other Tools like multipass kind and minikube on the guest will not work

It’s helpful when spinning up labs, or testing infrastructure deployments
Works in Linux VMs too. (on Ventura)