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It's a bizarre assumption that this is about "neglected software." A lot of software is for x64 only. If Rosetta2 goes away, Parallels support for x64 binarie
by torstenvl 1y ago
It's a bizarre assumption that this is about "neglected software."
A lot of software is for x64 only.
If Rosetta2 goes away, Parallels support for x64 binaries in VMs likely goes away too. Parallels is not neglected software. The x64 software you'd want to run on Parallels are not neglected software.
This is a short-sighted move. It's also completely unprecedented; Apple has dropped support for previous architectures and runtimes before, but never when the architecture or runtime was the de facto standard.
https://docs.parallels.com/parallels-desktop-developers-guide/software-development-specific-functions-of-parallels-desktop/using-rosetta-to-run-x86-64-linux-software-on-apple-silicon-macs https://docs.parallels.com/parallels-desktop-developers-guid...
- galad87 1y agoParalles x86_64 emulation doesn't depend on Rosetta.
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- mxey 1y ago> If Rosetta2 goes away, Parallels support for x64 VMs likely goes away too. Rosetta 2 never supported emulating a full VM, only individual applications.
- torstenvl 1y agoYou're right. It looks like the new full VM emulation in 20.2 doesn't use Rosetta. https://www.parallels.com/blogs/parallels-desktop-20-2-0/ https://www.parallels.com/blogs/parallels-desktop-20-2-0/ Nevertheless, running x64 software including Docker containers on aarch64 VMs does use Rosetta. There's still a significant valid use case that has nothing to do with neglected software. Edited my post above. Thanks for the correction.
- mrpippy 1y agoThe OP only applies to Rosetta for running x64 Mac apps, not running x64 Linux software in aarch64 Linux VMs.