Create macOS or Linux virtual machines (opens in new tab)

Changed now. (Submitted title was "Run full Linux distributions on Apple Silicon")

Same, but I re-read the text:

Learn how you can use the Virtualization framework to quickly create virtual machines on your Mac. We'll show you how to create a virtual Mac and quickly test changes to your app in an isolated environment. 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.

(emphasis mine) the way that bit reads suggests installing on bare metal too.

Well, Asahi Linux is a thing

Opposite reaction here.

I'm still reasonably excited by the new title of this post.

Virtualization support is one of the things I've still been missing on the M1.

Or it is just going to be a video demonstrating this:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...

It's annoyingly ambiguous. The "on Apple silicon" and "full Linux" strongly suggest it's bare metal. (Why say it that way if it's not?)

But the title is "Create macOS or Linux virtual machines", which strongly suggests it's not bare metal.

But sometimes people write titles that only hit the biggest highlights, and the title may not mention everything that's in the video, so it's not impossible that it's Mac VMs, Linux VMs, and Linux bare metal.

UTM doesn't leave that much to be desired does it? I mean something first-party would be nice, but it's not like we're in a terrible state as it is...

Somebody has to write a longer and in-depth essay on the basics for us non-system programmer to know what is going on and what is expected. Wsl1 and wsl2 is under stable, like mvs is. Guess Microsoft and IBM are in the same family tree in this aspects.

Apple always confuse me. What is this, anyone please.

there is https://asahilinux.org/ for that...

> But there's no way apple would publish instruction on replacing macOS with Linux

They support "replacing" macOS with Windows 10. I haven't personally tested it, but I hear Windows 10 ARM even runs on the M1.

Parallels currently supports it, but for whatever reason it's Windows 11 only.

I tried Windows 10 and Windows 11 on a Mac M1 with UTM and Windows 11 with Parallels.

I found that Windows 11 ran much better than Windows 10 (it gets stuck) on UTM and I found that Parallels ran much better than UTM.

So, I’d say yes.

Literally "dangit!" and also dang

Changed now. (Submitted title was "Run full Linux distributions on Apple Silicon")

Getting access to Rosetta for VMs could be a big win as I don’t think it was available previously so you were stuck with much slower QEMU based x86_64 emulation.