[CentOS] Intel/64 CentOS VM running on a Mac M1?

Sat Jan 30 14:01:03 UTC 2021
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 29.01.21 um 18:22 schrieb Jack Morgan:
> 
> On 1/28/21 5:11 PM, Lists 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.
> Sorry to be pedantic but IA64 refers to Itanium architecture[0] in the 
> Linux kernel. You might be referring to x86_64/amd64.
> 
> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64
> 


BTW; IA64 is orphaned/obsolete now:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=228345bf98cd78f91d007478a51f9a471489e44a

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Leon