I have an Apple M1 processor (ARM64). Is there any way to spin a x86_64 machine? By default Multipass 1.8.0 is launching ARM64 Ubuntu instances.
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lima https://github.com/lima-vm/lima is the only project that I know that allows you to run x86_64 on M1
Currently, you cannot.
The discussion @user535733
links to has (Nov '21):
We’re looking into cross-architecture runs for the future, but it’s not going to happen very soon. You could try and build qemu upstream, though - you need
qemu-x86_64-static
.
The QEMU use at the moment (Apr 2022) is about being able to run ARM binaries on x86_64 hardware, not the other way round.