In reply to a post by Pheasant:

I’ll have a little play over the crimbo break and see what sort of figures GeekBench shoots out from W11 for ARM under Parallels and UTM on an M1 Max and native on a Volterra.

I'd be surprised if the M1 Max isn't significantly faster

VMware now has a product for this (Fusion 13) which may avoid the Parallels 'subscription' tax. There is even Fusion Player for free. (kinda destroys Virtualbox). Still only ARM instruction set operating systems.

Indeed.

I saw someone doing a test with a standard M1, running an ARM Linux VM, that was running the x86 copy of Geekbench (translated through Rosetta 2), that scored higher than native ARM W11 Geekbench on the Volterra. Though sadly I can't remember where I saw it.

I didn’t realise ARM Linux could use Rosetta, I thought it was limited to macOS. It was reported the M1 architecture includes hardware support for the x86/64 to ARM conversion, and everyone is waiting to see if Qualcomm’s processors will include any such optimisations with their acquisition of Nuvia.

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/qual...

Edited by jchamier (Fri 23-Dec-22 19:55:24)

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

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

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

Nice "gift" from Apple to the Linux community.

Speaking of 'gifts' and contributions to open source, have you read Terry Lambert's post on Quora about how they made Mac OS X pass Unix certification? It's an entertaining read...

https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to...

Merry Christmas to All 🎄🎄🎄

Very cool!

Yeah, right. He’s very polarising, a tad full of himself, but nonetheless entertaining to read. I liked this paragraph especially the bit about Linux…

“If I were asked to do the same thing for Linux, it likely would take five years, and two dozen people.

Linux is pretty balkanize, has a lot of kingdom building, and you have to pee on everything to make it smell like Linux.

I could do the same in FreeBSD in about a year and a half, with a dozen co-conspirators to run the changes through.”

🤣🤣

It is a shame the X Serve was discontinued but the cloud is the future I’m told.

🤣

It was only added in the latest version of macOS.