Why do you think there is no virtualisation? Apple showed Linux running in a VM ...

zeristor · on Nov 10, 2020

I missed that, I assumed virtualisation was dependent on Intel VT.

Then again I would have expected them to have discussed it as much as the video editing.

I am guessing that they’d need a M2 type chipset for accessing more RAM for that. Or maybe they’ve got a new way to do virtualisation since that is such a key thing these days.

Edit: thanks for pointing that out though, that’s why I mentioned it

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23922846

And the mentioned Virtio here:

http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio

How well this fits in with current virtualisation would be interesting to find out; I guess this will be for a later version of Big Sur, with a new beefier M2 chip.

deadbunny · on Nov 11, 2020

Are they virtualizing x86 though? Having Docker running arm64 on laptops and Docker x86 on servers completely nullifies the main usecase of Docker imo.

als0 · on Nov 11, 2020

But you can run Docker on arm64 servers!