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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker by johnklos on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:06PM (#25119873)
Answer your own question: Can Docker on ARM run x86? Can Docker on x86 run ARM?

If not, then why expect Apple ARM to run x86?

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker by afandian on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:12PM (#25119909)
Apple ARM can run x86 under Rosetta 2. The question is whether that can happen under Docker.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker by olliej on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:23PM (#25119967)
It runs user space x86 under arm, and those are all well formed programs that the os understands. Rosetta is a translator - to run a vm in a different architecture requires an emulator.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker by DarmokJalad1701 on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:00PM (#25120141)
> Can Docker on x86 run ARM

Yes. There are ways to set up Docker to seamlessly run arm containers on x86 using CPU emulation.

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