macOS 11 Virtualization Framework to Run Linux in a VM

Notably, Apple still has not released an Apple silicon chip that can do virtualization. So as far as I can tell, this framework is currently not testable on their systems using the A12Z.

Looks like this is just the &quot;Virtualization Extensions&quot; (apple silicon support) for the hypervisor framework (which has been around since 10.10 and is used by xhyve, and I believe the macos docker port?): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;hypervisor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;hypervisor</a><p>Is that correct?

Ironically the &quot;Year of Desktop Linux&quot; seems to be running GNU&#x2F;Linux inside VMs on macOS, Windows and even ChromeOS.

The real question here is how documented&#x2F;open the boot loader is gonna be and if (how) it&#x27;ll be possible to just boot whatever ARM64 code instead of going down the hypervisor way.

Isn’t this just the HV FW that exists already? Would you really expect the API to change between x86 and Apple ARM chips?

I&#x27;m assuming Big Sur on ARM will be virtualizing ARM, not emulating Intel, meaning a VM will need to run an ARM Linux distro.<p>In the short term I expect that to be problematic. First party packages in the distro&#x27;s package manager will be fine, but I expect it might be hard to find some third-party software compiled for ARM Linux. And any Docker containers in the Linux VM will need to use multi-arch or ARM Docker images.

There might be nothing available on this page right now, but wow is this useful. I recently started doing some macOS dev and realized that this is a pretty big limitation when it comes to my normal CI workflows. I know there are some projects that dockerize macOS but they did not seem simple to work with.

I don’t understand the headline. I already run Ubuntu, which is Linux, under Virtual Box, on Mac.

Is it possible yet to virtualize an OSX install without breaking the EULA?

“No overview available.”

Linux is just an app that runs in macOS and windows.

&gt; No overview available.<p>Cool, why is this even posted?

So, you create a problem... and then you create a solution. Windows 10 with Terminal, winget, WSL2 with soon X Window beats macOS as a development platform.