Ongoing related thread:<p><i>Running Intel Binaries in Linux VMs with Rosetta</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31644990" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31644990</a> - June 2022 (25 comments)
Before we get too excited by the title of the article which looks too good to offer what you may think it offers, in reality it is still virtualization with in macOS allowing Linux to be run as a guest and not a full installation.
"We'll also explore how you can install and run full Linux distributions on Apple silicon, and share how you can take advantage of Rosetta 2 to run x86-64 Linux binaries." That sounds like running Linux on bare metal...
For those wondering what's new, you can now attach a GUI now even if you use the Virtualization framework. Previously you'd have to use the lower-level Hypervisor framework and provide your own framebuffer device.
I'm still keeping my Intel Mac around to run Vagrant nicely with VirtualBox.<p>Will this let me spin up VMs with VirtualBox again on my M1? If so, oh my gosh sign me up right now.
I was expecting something more than full machine emulation I guess. But there's no way apple would publish instruction on replacing macOS with Linux.
This is extremely basic stuff that I would expect any half decent computer to be able to do. I'd be more surprised if it were impossible but I guess this is Apple we're talking about.