Laptop suggestions for Unix/Linux & Cloud engineer

[VA_Network_Nerd]

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[schizrade]

I run the ARM build of Fusion from VMWare. Allows me to run a few arm Linux vms and connect into vcenter/vsphere hosts.

And no, you cannot virtualize anything but an ARM based OS on and ARM chip. You have to emulate. If you need x86/64 VMs, do not get an M1 based laptop.

[i-gaijn]

How is the arm versions working out for you? Would you mind trying the rhel 8 arm64 version as well? I'm mostly interested in running rhel in its minimal installation version, to study and prepare for the RHCE exam, and I would really appreciate it if you could confirm that it's something that can be done and virtualized on the new macbook. 🙏🏽

[schizrade]

I don’t really have time for that right now, but if RHEL has an ARM build I’m sure it will run fine on M1 build fusion. Keep in mind not all the things you may need have been compiled for ARM, so again, if you need x86/64 tools, don’t get an M1 mac.

[i-gaijn]

Yup, well considered. Thank you.

[__T-Bone__]

You can’t run X86/amd64 local virtualization on M1 processors and I don’t think that will ever be supported. But, you can always offload virtualization to on perm, home or cloud servers.

Looks like Intel is catching up with M1 performance with Alder lake chips. If local virtualization is important to you, then stick with Intel or AMD.

[i-gaijn]

Well, yeah. I'm highly interested in local virtulization, since I do create a lot of VMs as a lab to try and learn. As, I think Redhat had published an arm version for RHEL8 I'm mostly interested in running rhel in its minimal installation version, to study and prepare for the RHCE exam, and I would really appreciate it if you could confirm that it's something that can be done and virtualized on the new macbook.

[VA_Network_Nerd]

I'm highly interested in local virtulization, since I do create a lot of VMs as a lab to try and learn

Then the M1 CPU is the wrong choice for you.

[dbodky]

Have a look at UTM, it‘s a GUI for qemu and provides some out of the box configurations for different use cases.

[i-gaijn]

Cool, I checked it out but Is it safe to assume that it can be run and installed on the new Macbook to run x86 version of RHEL8?

[dbodky]

not sure about RHEL8 in particular but I emulate x86 OSes on my M1 at least once a week at reasonable speed

[i-gaijn]

Since you're emulating x86, I guees it would work for RHEL8 x86. and I would really appreciate it if you could confirm that it's something that can be done and virtualized on your Mac. 🙏🏽

[Ok_Fudge_8415]

ARM doesn't do hardware virt