We're going to run Windows 11 IoT (ARM) on Mac M1 (ARM) using the native binary translation, thanks to up-to-date version of qemu which has native hardware support.
Install qemu and required tools (coreutils - we need truncate/gtruncate, dd/gdd CLI tools, samba - to share files between host and guest VM).
$ brew install qemu coreutils samba
As of macOS 12 (Monterey), Apple's Virtualization framework has nice support for macOS guest virtual machines, but with severe limitations: For example you can't install a macOS guest on Intel Macs, install guests with newer versions of macOS than the host, copy and paste between the host and the guest, or install third party kernel extensions in the guest. As usual for Apple, the functionality they do support is nicely implemented, but they've left out so much that the result is only marginally useful -- at least compared to
this gist is part of this series
thunderbolt and thunderbolt-net kernel modules (this must be done all nodes - yes i know it can sometimes work withoutm but the thuderbolt-net one has interesting behaviou' so do as i say - add both ;-)
nano /etc/modules add modules at bottom of file, one on each linex then y then enter
aka what i did to get from nothing to done.
note: these are designed to be primarily a re-install guide for myself (writing things down helps me memorize the knowledge), as such don't take any of this on blind faith - some areas are well tested and the docs are very robust, some items, less so). YMMV
tart create —linux archlinux
tart run --disk ./install-arm64-minimal-20221218T221711Z.iso archlinux
Guide updated to use the official installation .iso from Microsoft, which finally became available in Dec. 2024! For the VHDX disk image based guide check an earlier version of this gist.
When following this guide on a host not capable of aarch64 virtualization, replace -cpu host -accel kvm with -cpu neoverse-n1 (faster to emulate then -cpu max).
qemu-img create -f qcow2 win11.qcow2 80G
| # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.4 | |
| FROM gusto/ruby:2.7.6-ubuntu20.04 as build | |
| ARG GIT_TAG=0.5.10458.20220926130158-4007ec60a | |
| SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-o", "pipefail", "-c"] | |
| RUN <<END_OF_RUN | |
| set -ex | |
| apt-get update | |
| apt-get install -y software-properties-common |
Minimalist installation of OpenBSD on the Apple M2 using QEMU
| import { | |
| MatchersV3, | |
| PactV3, | |
| PactV3Options, | |
| V3Request, | |
| V3Response, | |
| GraphQLVariables | |
| } from '@pact-foundation/pact'; | |
| import { gql } from '@apollo/client/core'; | |
| import { ASTNode, print } from 'graphql'; |