I so, so want to be able to spin up linux VMs on iOS devices.
The most recent hardware actually do support ARM hypervisor extensions so you can actually run raw linux on iOS hosts :)
Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac
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Re: Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac
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Maybe I'm missing something, what are the actual commands for running a Linux x64 binary on macOS ARM?
You don't run the Linux x64 binary on macOS ARM. You run the Linux x64 binary on Linux ARM inside a VM on macOS ARM.
It seems overly complicated. Is there any benefit over using Docker?
Re: Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac
#113Are there any good, free desktop hypervisor apps for ARM macOS at this point? I always used VirtualBox on Intel but they don't support ARM guests on ARM hosts so I've been stuck using qemu, which is not so great performance-wise. I know I can use the APIs linked here but I would rather not build my own hypervisor client if at all possible haha
Re: Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac
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It takes some work, but you can pass in an XQuartz display to a Docker container and have it render to that.
Link?
The closest thing I’ve seen to a comprehensive write-up is this: https://medium.com/@mreichelt/how-to-show-x11-windows-within... (medium, unfortunately)
We’ve been using it experimentally to run an ephemeral instance of Firefox that we can programmatically inject DNS and CA certs into, for localhost HTTPS development. It’s not documented yet, but the config is here: https://github.com/drifting-in-space/plane/pull/201
Re: Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac
#115Re: Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac
#116It seems there is some confusion of what this page is about or why it might be relevant. This is not about an end-user product to run desktop virtualisation, but it is a page for developers in the Apple ecosystem to programmatically make use of OS-native virtualisation to create virtual machines with graphics output. The value in this is not as much that "it is possible" because there are plenty of implementations of…
> VirtualBox doesn't work on ARM by the way, they only release for x86(_64). Because VirtualBox is not a CPU emulator, unlike QEMU, MAME/MESS, and other emulators. Virtualization software such as Fusion and Parallels run VMs of operating systems that match the architecture of the host OS. Intel VMs like those in VirtualBox will not run on Apple Silicon, and Apple Silicon VMs won't run on Intel. The CPU instruction se…
Just want to point out that QEMU can use your CPU's hardware virtualization extensions for VMs of the same architecture as your host, it's not exclusively an emulator.
Re: Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac
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GNU Coreutils - https://ports.macports.org/port/coreutils/ - partly helps with this on macOS, but yes, custom distros are much better solutions.
GNU coreutils are essential on macOS, and Apple should just include it by default. \o/
Um… GNU’s license is incompatible with Apple; that’s why Bash 3.2 is the current version for macOS.
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Has anyone seen a guide to installing OpenBSD on M1 Mac using UTM?
No, but given that UTM is a graphical wrapper around QEMU would this be a worthy substitute? https://codeofconnor.com/running-an-arm64-openbsd-virtual-ma...
Thanks. I’ll give it a go.
Re: Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac
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The only problem seems to be that it won't allow you to run an earlier OS X that can still run 32-bit programs.
Another problem is that it's not programmatic (e.g., like Vagrant), so it's tiresome to spin up/down a bunch of VMs.
There are several tools to create VMs from the CLI or scripts like QEMU, docker machine, and podman machine.
Re: Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac
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You don't run the Linux x64 binary on macOS ARM. You run the Linux x64 binary on Linux ARM inside a VM on macOS ARM.
It seems overly complicated. Is there any benefit over using Docker?
I'm not sure what you think Docker on a Mac does. Docker is a Linux-specific piece of software, and the only way to use it within macOS is to run a Linux virtual machine, with Docker running inside the Linux VM.
If the containers you want to run with Docker are x86 software, that Linux VM either needs to be an x86 Linux distro running in qemu emulation of a full x86 machine, or an ARM Linux distro using the new (not yet released in stable macOS) Rosetta for Linux translation.