Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by photon-torpedo 1327 days ago
This is nice, but unfortunately

> Rosetta doesn’t support the bootstrapping or installation of Intel Linux distributions on Mac computers with Apple silicon using the Virtualization framework.

So I guess it still won't be possible to run RHEL (or derivative) VMs on Apple Silicon. (Their aarch64 images don't work, something obscure with page size IIRC. Odd because Debian/Ubuntu's aarch64 work fine.)

Edit: Looks like RHEL9 has changed page size so it can run as a VM on Apple Silicon. Unfortunately my common use case for VMs is to prototype things for production, and that's all on RHEL7/8. :(
1 comments
vbezhenar 1327 days ago
You install ARM linux on VM, you copy some binaries into that ARM linux which magically allow you to run x86 binaries inside that ARM linux. Those binaries will be translated using rosetta algorithms to arm machine code and run inside that ARM linux.

Fast emulating x86 VM probably is too hard for Rosetta so they decided not to even bother with it. I agree that it would make things much easier if one could just run x86 Linux with proper speed.

link