It would be extremely slow, inefficient and probably could not emulate all the hardware needed. First you would have to run a virtual machine on the M1 and that virtual machine would have to emulate the x86_64. The only way to run x86_64 on an M1 is via ‘double’ emulation. x86_64 (or amd64 ) is the native processor name for the Intel/AMD 64 bit architecture. IA64 is the Itanium server which Intel stopped making a while ago and Red Hat quit supporting in 2017.Ĥ. Currently the work to get Linux to run on the M1 works great in emulation and somewhat with a lot of work in native mode.ģ. The Apple M1 uses a variant of the aarch64 (ARM 64 bit) CPU, and the hardware architecture is different from aarch64 server class hardware in multiple ways.Ģ. So, the answer I would give: NO, one can not have guest system of different architecture as it is with decent speed.ġ. And later VMware went same way, and became really fast virtualization solution too.īottom line: guest and host systems should have the same architecture for guest system to be able to talk directly to CPU for decently fast virtualization. One can not know that about proprietary software, but give better guess than mine, please. Then parallels desktop emerged and was (without mentioning it) using what Cygwin did. That (emulating generic CPU) was what VMware was doing originally. Otherwise, one has to emulate different architecture CPU, which will make virtualization an order of magnitude slower. This all implies the system of the same architecture on guest system as is of the host system. The first I know of is Cygnus solutions who did it in their cygwin (company was bought by RedHat, and cygwin still exists and still is open source project). Virtualization solution became fast the moment “on the fly” conversion of guest system calls to host system calls was invented.

Parallels/VirtualBox intend to support IA64 based OS’s and it *needs* to be an exact (VM) copy of production so I can trial environments and builds prior to roll out.Ĭalling around, I actually got ahold of a sales staff at Parallels who assured me (in broken India-accent English) that “of course all OS will supported when the trial complete” but given that I wasn’t sure that he really understood my question I remain uncertain.Īnybody here have any more information than I do? > I’ve been unable to officially confirm that VMWare/ My Dell Precision M3800 running Fedora works great but is really starting to show its age, and I’m thinking about getting a new Mac M1-based laptop as it would really be useful for Video production.īut I really need to have a IA64 CentOS 7/8 VMs running locally for development as I’m often on the road and flaky Internet makes it a necessity to keep productivity up.

Qemu apple m1