Oolite running in a VM on a M4 Mac?

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Oolite running in a VM on a M4 Mac?

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Has anybody managed to get the Linux port of Oolite running on a VM hosted on a M4 Mac mini? I'm beginning to think that it's not possible due to the ARM architecture but would be happy to be proved wrong.

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Re: Oolite running in a VM on a M4 Mac?

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AndyEW wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:53 pm
I'm not sure if this is the right forum and will be happy for moderators to move the post to the right one.

Has anybody managed to get the Linux port of Oolite running on a VM hosted on a M4 Mac mini? I'm beginning to think that it's not possible due to the ARM architecture but would be happy to be proved wrong.

Andy
No, sorry.

I had a stab (with Hiran's help) at running Oolite on Ubuntu on my 2020 MacBook Air (Intel). Eventually reverted to running the AppleMac version on my old AppleMac. Running AppleMac Oolite on a slightly newer Mac with an M1 chip was pretty unsatisfying.

Did you get anywhere with it? If you still have problems, try bugging Hiran.
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