These new Macs also won't talk to our Apple Server to do network user authentication when Filevault is turned on. We have Parallels on a couple of Macs, but it's soooo bloated that you can't get decent performance while it's running so I don't see it as a viable option.

So I can't boot into an ARM based Linux Distro either. Also they got rid of bootcamp and you can't boot from a USB stick either. I thought 'Rosetta' was supposed provide x86 emulation to bridge the gap between x86 apps and Apple Silicon but apparently not. If your use case for Mac hardware is to run arbitrary 圆4 code at high speed in VMs, you should not buy an M1 Mac because that capability does not currently exist.So tired of being 'upgraded' out of a functioning machine.Īpple won't provide OS upgrades for our older x86 iMacs (which still run great) and the replacement iMacs won't run several key applications for development like VirtualBox and Vagrant. None of this is negativity or cynicism towards M1 Macs - it's just the reality of how switching architectures affects virtualization. VirtualBox has no plans to port to ARM and will not work in Rosetta.

Rosetta 2 is designed exclusively for user-mode programs and cannot cooperate with virtualization software to run arbitrary OSes in VMs.

The things OP asked about fundamentally cannot work. The long-term solution is probably going to be running ARM Windows or Linux in a VM and leaning on Rosetta-style compatibility/translation in the client OS to run 圆4 programs.Įdit: Since this is attracting downvotes, maybe it needs some clarification. The answer to all three of your questions is 'If you are worried about this, absolutely do not buy an M1 Mac.' Rosetta 2 cannot magically turn VirtualBox from a virtualization management system into a high-performance 圆4 emulator.

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