You still need VM to run Linux ELF on macOS, but you don't need to use full-blown emulation like QEMU if the Linux ELF is for AARCH64, unlike when you try to ru

You still need VM to run Linux ELF on macOS, but you don't need to use full-blown emulation like QEMU if the Linux ELF is for AARCH64, unlike when you try to run x86 ELF. It's much faster this way.