[Cialug] Mac/Arm

[Dave Hala]

I was thinking about that too. It looks like there is an Arm  version of
RHEL 8 in the works, but I'm wondering what kind of can of worms that will
be. I'm wondering will the entire LAMP stack and all the weird little apps
I use still run on ARM?   Then we are back to breaking the old thing of
"Dev Environment Should Match the Production environment" rule.

I guess the answer would be to switch production to ARM... but Honestly, I
would rather tolerate windows than do that.



On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 12:32 PM Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote:

> As of right now, my understanding of the situation is that, while there
> are virtualization options for the ARM based processors, their guests still
> need to be ARM. As in, they don’t yet translate ARM world into x32/x64
> world, at least not yet.
>
> At some point, I have no doubt that Vbox may support this,  but the
> performance hit is bound to be hard to stomach.
>
> While I’m excited about the some of the efficiency improvements of Apple
> moving to their own silicon, I’m a bit worried about how it will all play
> out for use cases like yours, which mirror the dev environments myself and
> my colleagues use.
>
> As our resident guinea pig, I will likely order one of the new ARM
> machines when they first become available so I can start figuring out
> what’s broken and how to fix it, before we start ordering them for other
> employees.
>
> - ea
>
>
> > On Jul 11, 2020, at 09:37, Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
> >
> > We were going to transition to the Mac for workstations. We do our
> > development on Linux (Redhat) VM's using VirtualBox.
> >
> > Looks like it's no go.   Is there an open source virtualization tool I
> can
> > run on an an arm based mac and accomplish the same thing?
> >
> > :) Dave
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