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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-23 days agoThat’s very cool! But, my work needs to run proprietary x86 containers not ARM ones. We are sadly being “forced” (they rather still not turn to open source software) to move to Windows. It’s a shame.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish8•3 days agoI haven’t checked but it should be possible? macOS has had support for x64 binaries in Linux VMs for a few years now, using their Rosetta 2 translation layer.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•3 days agoI’ve been using colima for x64 emulation. This blog talks a little bit about it, but basically you start colima in either arm or x64 mode and then can run that type of image - https://blog.barakimam.me/running-vs-code-devcontainers-with-x8664-runtime-on-apple-silicon
That’s very cool! But, my work needs to run proprietary x86 containers not ARM ones. We are sadly being “forced” (they rather still not turn to open source software) to move to Windows. It’s a shame.
I haven’t checked but it should be possible?
macOS has had support for x64 binaries in Linux VMs for a few years now, using their Rosetta 2 translation layer.
I’ve been using colima for x64 emulation. This blog talks a little bit about it, but basically you start colima in either arm or x64 mode and then can run that type of image - https://blog.barakimam.me/running-vs-code-devcontainers-with-x8664-runtime-on-apple-silicon
the performance isn’t there yet, unfortunately.
Linux isn’t an option?