Comment by joshlk

3 months ago

Can you use to launch an Intel VM on Apple Silicone and visa versa? I’m interested in doing this so I can compile C++ applications for different architectures on MacOS. Do you know of any other “easy” methods?

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bydo  3 months ago

I don't believe the built in virtualization framework supports emulation, but you can do this with QEMU. An easy way to get started is with UTM:

https://mac.getutm.app

  • knowitnone  3 months ago

    I tried UTM - didn't like it, inconsistent, shows a black screen and you don't know what's going on. Use qemu instead.

mrpippy  3 months ago

You can do this without virtualization/emulation, pass ‘-arch x86_64’ or ‘-arch arm64’ to clang. Or both, for a universal binary. And on Apple Silicon, you can test them both thanks to Rosetta.

latchkey  3 months ago

It should be possible. I did this in the early 90's... I had a windows vm running on a powerpc Mac, writing x86 assembly for college class.