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A comment on The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc (2021).

Re:The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc (2021) by titzer on Monday May 23, 2022 @08:39AM (#31478228)
It's worth noting that emulating x86 linux on M1 macs with qemu still sucks pretty bad. This was an important use case for me that I basically gave up on and got an EC2 instance, in addition to buying a couple more spare x86 machines.
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Re:The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc (2021) by danaris on Monday May 23, 2022 @09:01AM (#31478439)
Since the article at least seems to be saying the opposite, can you give some specifics about just how it sucks?
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Re:The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc (2021) by e-max on Monday May 23, 2022 @09:58AM (#31479117)
But the article is not saying the opposite. It praises a virtualization. About an emulation it says "while I’m not going to call it “fast,” it’s not utterly unusable either."
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Re:The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc (2021) by titzer on Monday May 23, 2022 @10:25AM (#31479428)
Virtualization of arm linux seems to work fine. Virtualization of x86 linux is very slow.
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