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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by WrtCdEvrydy on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:31PM (#23643173)
VMWare did have a hypervisor for Raspberry Pi.
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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by my123 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:42PM (#23643316)
Yes, VMWare ESXi runs on Arm just fine. :-)
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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by jki275 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:26PM (#23647812)
Can you run an x86 guest under it?
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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by lode on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:10AM (#23650393)
No. Virtualization (dividing a host into different logical hosts but executing unmodified CPU instructions, like VMware, VirtualBox, ...) and emulation (translating instructions, like Rosetta) are two different beasts.
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Re:ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization by jki275 on Friday June 26, 2020 @10:08AM (#23652117)
That's pretty much what I assumed from what I know of VMWare. It's going to be a big issue for future Macs, there are entire segments of developers who may have to abandon Macs if we can't run VMs of x86 operating systems.
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