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In principle, the Linux Rosetta binaries should remain usable well into the future. Even if Apple discontinues support for Rosetta in their VMs, there's very li
by duskwuff 2y ago
In principle, the Linux Rosetta binaries should remain usable well into the future. Even if Apple discontinues support for Rosetta in their VMs, there's very little (beyond a simple, easily removed runtime check) preventing them from being used standalone.
- saagarjha 2y agoThe kernel could drop support.
- vbezhenar 2y agoAFAIK Linux Rosetta does not work standalone but uses some channels to exchange x86 and arm binary code between Linux guest and macOS host. Actual translation happens in the macOS.
- duskwuff 2y agoYou'd think so, but no. With a patch to remove the runtime check, Rosetta works on Asahi Linux, with no macOS kernel present at all.