BIGIP-VE on MacBook Pro M1

[canuck]

Is anyone running BIGIP-VE Lab Edition on a MacBook Pro M1?

I am currently running my lab on an older Intel processor MacBook Pro with VMware Fusion but they don't support x86 guests with the M1.

any ideas?

[buulam]

I tried this out on my M1 and VMware Fusion. With only ARM options for the OS when creating the VM, BIG-IP VE is just not going to boot unfortunately.

[buulam · Accepted solution]

Additional info: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/about-the-rosetta-translation-environment

What Can’t Be Translated?

Rosetta can translate most Intel-based apps, including apps that contain just-in-time (JIT) compilers. However, Rosetta doesn’t translate the following executables:

• Kernel extensions

• Virtual Machine apps that virtualize x86_64 computer platforms

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