

Since we are running an ARM version of Linux everything should run smoothly and without any transition. Develop and test using over 50,000 software packages and runtimes including Go, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python and Ruby and deploy at scale using our complete scale-out management suite including MAAS and Juju. If the topic of virtualization interests you, check out some more of our posts on the subject. Parallels is a good example of a virtualization solution. Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS includes support for the very latest ARM-based server systems powered by certified 64-bit processors. There are many other options available for virtualization, including the free UTM app which allows you to easily run Windows 11 on an Apple Silicon Mac for example, but there’s also paid solutions including VMWare and Parallels. Go to to find the appropriate download, listed as “Developer preview for macOS / Arm64 (M1/M2) hosts”.As usual, VirtualBox is completely free to download and to use. While technically in beta, anyone can get access to the developer preview beta ARM build of VirtualBox through the VirtualBox website. It does this by virtualizing hardware (that you can adjust to allocate RAM, storage capacity, etc), so the operating system itself doesn’t know that it’s not running on actual hardware.

VirtualBox is virtualization software that allows you to run other operating systems in containers on your Mac directly from the application, for example you can run Linux or Windows directly within VirtualBox, and without having to use dual-booting or anything else.
