Run NixThePlanet on a Nix Darwin with Apple Silicon

[disbolog]

Ditto title, is there any ETA to support an aarch64-darwin host? Thanks in advance.

[MatthewCroughan]

Not going to happen any time soon, unless you can point me to a hypervisor that can run XNU kernel for aarch64, with full support.

The current state of the art is BlackBerry's QEMU fork

• https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2021/05/strong-arming-with-macos-adventures-in-cross-platform-emulation
• https://github.com/cylance/macos-arm64-emulation
• https://github.com/alephsecurity/xnu-qemu-arm64
• https://ku.nz/blog/appleonintel.html

This also allows you to run iOS.

My current understanding is that graphics work for iOS, but not for macOS-arm64, and I'm not sure if you can even get past the installer for macOS-arm64.

[chrislf]

Does https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart provide a method to do this?

[MatthewCroughan]

@chrislf Sadly not

macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon

This means that you can run a macOs VM on Apple Silicon, not on Linux.

[chrislf]

@MatthewCroughan ah, that is unfortunate. Thanks for the response!