Hi All, How to install Oracle virtual box on Mac M1? I was getting below message . . .

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#1

Vinuthan Raju:
Hi All,
How to install Oracle virtual box on Mac M1?
I was getting below message when i try to do it.
Googled to see if there is a way but the videos are not convincing

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#2

Aleksandr:
Hi, for modern Mac VirtualBox is not compatible.
For Mac I recommend you to use another program to run virtual machines.

#3

Aleksandr:
https://customerconnect.vmware.com/evalcenter?p=fusion-player-personal is free for home use, non-commercial use.

#4

Aleksandr:
hmm, actually in the compatibility list https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2005196?lang=en_US

Note: Macs running on non-x86 processors/Apple Silicon Processors are not supported (Example: Apple Macs with M1 Chips)

#5

Aleksandr:
I think this is probably the price you have to pay for buying a PC running a mobile chipset in a time where we have not yet updated our software to run on ARM.

#6

Al West:
For M1 there are two options I know. Both paid:
https://oofhours.com/2022/02/26/m1-mac-virtualization-parallels-desktop-vs-vmware-fusion/

#7

Shwetha:
https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/11885#issuecomment-1066085710

#8

Its Dragonfly7:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=105481

#9

Vinuthan Raju:
thank you all for your response :slightly_smiling_face:
looks like M1 does not have the VM supported there are few like UTM will give it a go and share my experience. Have a good one

#10

Al West:
Basically you can virtualise ARM on ARM, or Intel on Intel - but not a mix of the both.

#11

Aleksandr:
x86_64 not intel, it seems AMD is making better CPUs than intel these days.

#12

Aleksandr:
But I think for DevOps you should be able to do fine with this PC. Somebody I know uses Docker/containers to run kubernetes on the Mac and it works decently. Maybe not minikube, but at least other solutions that support ARM. These solutions that are supposed to run “on the Edge” often supports ARM.

#13

Al West:
This is in context to Apple and AMD don’t make chips for Macs.

#14

Aleksandr:
Mac isn’t the whole world, the architecture is nonetheless called x86_64 or AMD64. And to be more precise ARM64.

#15

Aleksandr:
I guess if I may, you would have been correct with saying Intel 64

#16

Aleksandr:
Not that it matters much, I get it, in the Mac world there is the old Intel-based Mac only, and then there is their new Apple Silicon Macs