Slackware ARM VM's on Apple M1 Macs?

drmozes · 12-28-2023, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by leeeoooooo

I would love to be able to run Slackware on my new M1 MacBook Air, either in VMware or under Asahi's dual-boot system.

I plan to explore Apple M2 support through emulation once we've finished supporting the HoneyComb LX2 and transitioned to Linux 6.6. I'm unsure if the M1 support will differ, but we can investigate that later.

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From what I've been able to find out, Slackware on Aarch64 isn't quite ready for prime time yet.

Well, I've been running it since inception and it works for me ;-) Slackware AArch64 is set to have a 15.1 release concurrent with x86.

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Maybe I could make do with a Raspberry Pi or something, but however I do it, I really want to be on Aarch64.

Consider getting a RockPro64 - Slackware is built on them, and they offer impressive speed and stability. I advise against using Raspberry Pi due to the fragility of the Kernel support. I'm hoping the RPi 4 support has improved in Linux 6.6.

leeeoooooo · 12-29-2023, 10:32 AM

Thank you so much for the updated information and for everything you do for this project.

I'm concerned that some of the Linux ARM projects focus on the small form machines without taking Apple Silicon into account.
The Asahi Linux developers have talked about being hobbled by 4K buffers that were appropriate for the small single-board computers, but entirely inadequate when they were working on something like the M2Max.