Hello, The Apple M1 is an ARM-based chip, which is a completely different architecture from x86_64/amd64 (Intel 64) and IA64 (Itanium). Run "uname -m" on one of your production servers to confirm which architecture that you are targeting. You can use qemu to emulate VMs for different architectures, but it will be slower than normal VM's where the guest and the host run the same architecture. I would be surprised if Parallels and other non-qemu VM platforms supported running a x86_64 guest on an Apple M1 chip. Even so, there might be some hiccups. I would recommend looking at regular PC (non-Apple) laptops to ensure the best compatibility for your use case. If your servers are truly Itanium, then I don't know what to recommend. Sincerely, Jason --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jason Edgecombe | Linux Administrator UNC Charlotte | Office of OneIT 9201 University City Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223-0001 Phone: 704-687-1943 jwedgeco at uncc.edu | http://engr.uncc.edu | Facebook --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are not the intended recipient of this transmission or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or other use of any of the information in this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify me immediately by reply e-mail or by telephone at 704-687-1943. Thank you. On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 8:12 PM 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. > > Calling around, I actually got ahold of a sales staff at Parallels who > assured > me (in broken India-accent English) that "of course all OS will supported > when > the trial complete" but given that I wasn't sure that he really understood > my > question I remain uncertain. > > Anybody here have any more information than I do? [Caution: Email from > External Sender. Do not click or open links or attachments unless you know > this sender.] > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >