On Friday, January 29, 2021 6:30:33 AM PST Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 at 20:12, Lists <lists at benjamindsmith.com> wrote: > > My Dell Precision M3800 running Fedora works great but is really starting > > to > > show its age, and I'm thinking about getting a new Mac M1-based laptop as > > it > > would really be useful for Video production. > > > > But I really need to have a IA64 CentOS 7/8 VMs running locally for > > development as I'm often on the road and flaky Internet makes it a > > necessity to > > keep productivity up. I've been unable to officially confirm that VMWare/ > > Parallels/VirtualBox intend to support IA64 based OS's and it *needs* to > > be an > > exact (VM) copy of production so I can trial environments and builds prior > > to > > roll out. > > 1. The Apple M1 uses a variant of the aarch64 (ARM 64 bit) CPU, and the > hardware architecture is different from aarch64 server class hardware in > multiple ways. > 2. Currently the work to get Linux to run on the M1 works great in > emulation and somewhat with a lot of work in native mode. > 3. IA64 is the Itanium server which Intel stopped making a while ago and > Red Hat quit supporting in 2017. > 4. x86_64 (or amd64 ) is the native processor name for the Intel/AMD 64 bit > architecture. It is what your older system runs. > 5. The only way to run x86_64 on an M1 is via 'double' emulation. First you > would have to run a virtual machine on the M1 and that virtual machine > would have to emulate the x86_64. It would be extremely slow, inefficient > and probably could not emulate all the hardware needed. > > If you are needing to update your hardware, you need to keep Linux running > native on the system, and that system needs to be x86_64, you will either > need to get an earlier generation Mac or a current system from Dell, HP, > ASUS, etc. You are correct that I don't mean Itanium, but really x86_64 binary compatibility. I had the impression that MacOS' Rosetta II might do what I need but it seems that it's a sort of precompiler for x86 OSX apps and thus would be entirely infeasible for my needs. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 488 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20210203/c1f38e70/attachment-0004.sig>