![]() ![]() ![]() Sadly, it requires you to jailbreak your iOS device so I declined that opportunity but running this on macOS Big Sur sounded like good fun. And then I discovered an open source virtual machine app I hadn’t heard of called UTM which runs on M1 and even on iOS. I did a bit of poking around looking into what virtual machine software runs on the M1s and discovered that VirtualBox from Oracle and the commercial software VMware Fusion do not, but Parallels Desktop does. When I asked him about this limitation of the M1 he said he didn’t see it as an issue (not sure why) but that he hadn’t yet looked into whether the open source virtual machine software VirtualBox would run on the M1, at least to run a Linux distribution (or distro as the cool kids say.) He has touted the Mac as the best platform because he can run macOS, Linux, and Windows all on one piece of hardware. Knightwise’s mantra is “making technology work for you” and the center of that is being a slider who can use the best tool for the job, rather than being fanatically attached to one company’s technology (like some people we know). I was actually surprised that in Knightwise’s recording about how much value he’s getting from his M1 MacBook Air, he never mentioned that as a downside. The canonical discussion thread on the VirtualBox forums that covers this in more detail is here.I talked on the show a while back about how the one downside to an M1 Mac is that you can’t run Windows, or at least not without a lot of faffing about. ![]() There will never be any way to run a VirtualBox image that ran on an Intel Mac on an Apple Silicon Mac. So, not only will VirtualBox not work on Apple Silicon, it will never work on Apple Silicon. ![]() they don't use any of the standards built up in the PC ecosystem over the last 40 years. None of these take the same form on the Apple Silicon platform - i.e. These include system memory, various bus controllers (PCI, USB), hard disk controllers, sound cards, graphics, BIOS/UEFI, etc. So, it means not only that VirtualBox only runs on x86 CPUs, but also that it requires all the other elements of the x86 platform. However, it appears from various discussions I've seen on this topic that many users don't really understand what this really means. As per David Leitko's answer, VirtualBox is an x86 (more specifically, AMD64/x86_64) virtualization hypervisor. ![]()
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