Qemu for ARM hosts

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PeterHolbrook
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Qemu for ARM hosts

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I've looked for information, but couldn't get a clear picture on how good Qemu might be in virtualizing or emulating non-ARM guest operating systems on Apple Silicon ARM. If VMware and Parallels do not enter the fray of Intel emulation under ARM, our only choice for running things like OS X Tiger, OS X Snow Leopard, macOS Mojave or Windows 10 for Intel might be installing those Intel operating systems on a Qemu virtual machine for ARM. Can anyone comment how feasible that will be in the next few months? Would Qemu for macOS on ARM work (as far as UI and normal user operations go) roughly the same as Qemu for macOS on Intel? In addition, users of Mac OS 9.2.2 and earlier releases might need to virtualize PowerPC on ARM. Would Qemu for macOS ARM also work that way?
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Re: Qemu for ARM hosts

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See this topic about running qemu on iOS.
https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewt ... 34&t=10702

I assume the operation on Arm macs will be the same as on Intel macs.

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