Why do you think there is no virtualisation? Apple showed Linux running in a VM during WWDC already.

I missed that, I assumed virtualisation was dependent on Intel VT.

Then again I would have expected them to have discussed it as much as the video editing.

I am guessing that they’d need a M2 type chipset for accessing more RAM for that. Or maybe they’ve got a new way to do virtualisation since that is such a key thing these days.

Edit: thanks for pointing that out though, that’s why I mentioned it

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23922846

And the mentioned Virtio here:

http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio

How well this fits in with current virtualisation would be interesting to find out; I guess this will be for a later version of Big Sur, with a new beefier M2 chip.

Are they virtualizing x86 though? Having Docker running arm64 on laptops and Docker x86 on servers completely nullifies the main usecase of Docker imo.

But you can run Docker on arm64 servers!