Comment by mxey

6 months ago

> If Rosetta2 goes away, Parallels support for x64 VMs likely goes away too.

Rosetta 2 never supported emulating a full VM, only individual applications.

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torstenvl  6 months ago

You're right. It looks like the new full VM emulation in 20.2 doesn't use Rosetta.

https://www.parallels.com/blogs/parallels-desktop-20-2-0/

Nevertheless, running x64 software including Docker containers on aarch64 VMs does use Rosetta. There's still a significant valid use case that has nothing to do with neglected software.

Edited my post above. Thanks for the correction.

  • mrpippy  6 months ago

    The OP only applies to Rosetta for running x64 Mac apps, not running x64 Linux software in aarch64 Linux VMs.