[vbox-dev] Rosetta Support

[Hugo Huijser]

Thanks Alexey,

Since we'd be running a VM on an ARM OS, we'd only be interested in
translating our user space applications (which are mostly Inte
applications), not kernel space code.
Right now, we cannot use Rosetta within any VM unless we build the VM using
the Apple Virtualization Framework.
I believe that's what UTM solved in their latest version and was hoping
VirtualBox would do something similar.



On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 1:21 PM Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> wrote:

> supporting Rosetta will be very hard (or maybe impossible), because it
> works with user-space applications only. It cannot virtualize
> drivers/kernel-space code/VMs.
> Also Apple may drop Rosetta support like they did for PowerPC Rosetta
> 3 years after Intel Macs were announced.
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 8:34 PM Hugo Huijser via vbox-dev
> <vbox-dev at virtualbox.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have been using VirtualBox for quite some time, and are in the
> process of moving our Mac users to Macs with Apple silicon processors.
> > VirtualBox 7.0 is now supporting these new processors.
> >
> > My question is if there are plans to also support Rosetta in the future
> (similar to how UTM is supporting virtualization and Rosetta:
> https://docs.getutm.app/advanced/rosetta/)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Hugo Huijser
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>
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> -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
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