![]() ![]() When I try to do (in my opinion) very similar with aarch64 version, I get the aforementioned QEMU monitor instead (apparently there is no default machine so I use virt): qemu-system-aarch64 -boot d -cdrom ~/Downloads/alpine-standard-3.15.0-aarch64.iso -m 2048 -machine virt The following works without any problem, it boots from the ISO and eventually I get to login and have the shell available as I would expect (note that it's x86_64): qemu-system-x86_64 -boot d -cdrom ~/Downloads/alpine-standard-3.15.0-x86_64.iso -m 2048 rw-r-r- 1 tim wheel 2.0M 7 Oct 22:26 iPod_1.1.5.I'm trying to run alpine linux using qemu-system-aarch64 on a mac M1/apple silicon, however, instead of booting from the provided ISO, I always get QEMU monitor. Want the 1st generation iPod firmware from around 2001? You can still download it from Apple (it’s 2MB and contains only 2 files: a manifest and the firmware binary): $ curl -sLO ipsw file is just a zip file, however, and so they can contain whatever the hardware/firmware platform is expecting. ipsw files using Apple Configurator, in the same way one restores an iOS device. When Apple Silicon devices first appeared, it seemed uncanny (and also not terribly surprising) that such a device would be restored by putting them into DFU mode and restoring. This new system seems to abstract nearly all of this away… A brief detour on IPSWs It was a constant moving target, changing subtly with seemingly ever OS release since OS X Lion. While Apple has been making it easier in recent years to retrieve macOS installers, commercial VM solutions always required you to supply your own installers, which they would then (always via a lengthy Bash script) quietly mount in the background, converting its various pieces into a new disk image layout that was suitable for installation. Once you’ve created a VM, what’s interesting is that it will immediately show download progress:Īutomatic IPSW discovery courtesy of VZMacOSRestoreImage.fetchLatestSupportedWithCompletionHandler The Parallels UI presents a straightforward path to getting a Mac VM created when running on an M1. Any of this experimentation requires running macOS Monterey betas as the host OS. The other repos I listed above are also easy enough to get started with, just that the setup steps vary slightly and also require you to build the projects from source (which still requires Xcode 13 betas, since only these include the macOS 12 platform SDK). ![]() This KB article from Parallels also covers macOS Monterey guest support on Apple Silicon in more detail. ![]() Parallels offers a 14-day trial of the Parallels Desktop product. So, I just started using Parallels to experiment with what was possible at this early stage (and to just take the easiest path to seeing this for my own eyes). I’m aware of only one commercial offering that uses these new APIs, and that is Parallels Desktop 17. Where can we see some of these new Virtualization framework features already implemented? There are several open-source experiments you’ll find on GitHub: Virtualizing on Apple Siliconīecause Apple Silicon hardware has such great performance at a low thermal cost, and Apple hardware is the only legal platform on which (as a user) to run macOS, and macOS is the only officially-supported platform for building and releasing apps for Apple hardware platforms, I’m very interested in being able to continue to virtualize macOS as we transition away from Intel-based Apple hardware. What’s interesting here is that (I think) it’s the first time we see native Apple APIs for macOS guest virtual machines. VZVirtioSoundDeviceOutputStreamConfiguration VZVirtioSoundDeviceInputStreamConfiguration VZUSBScreenCoordinatePointingDeviceConfiguration In particular, notice the VZMac* APIs: VZAudioDeviceConfiguration Here’s the new APIs below (at time of writing, where Monterey’s latest version is beta 10). ![]() When Apple released the first macOS 12 Monterey betas in June 2021, some interesting new APIs were added to the Virtualization framework developer docs. Check out the follow-up article from June 2022 here. Note: Since this article was originally published, there have been exciting new developments. ![]()
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