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Re:Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different? by AkshitGarg on Friday December 29, 2023 @08:18AM (#38804553)
IIRC that runs a x86_64 userland (using Rosetta) on a arm64 kernel.
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Re:Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different? by kamilner on Friday December 29, 2023 @08:33AM (#38804685)
Interesting. uname -a reports x86_64, and lscpu also reports x86_64, although perhaps that's just the kernel being patched to lie about the architecture.
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Re:Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different? by saagarjha on Saturday December 30, 2023 @01:04PM (#38817200)
Not the kernel, but yes: the runtime lies about its architecture.
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