Thanks. Your answer is mentioning UTM and Parallels, which would mean we're emulating x86 commands, correct?
Like some of the other answers here mention, if there's an arm build for Ubuntu, this would get things closer to running natively on Apple Silicon I think?
I am indeed trying to ensure Vagrant will work, since that's the technology we've typically used on our team, and we have some tooling setup to take advantage of it.
Vagrant is nice because it automatically shares a folder with the regular desktop, and we have all of our setup ready to go. But I imagine I could get Parallels or UTM to do the same thing... although I wonder how much extra CPU cycles and battery drain I'll have. But as long as I can get it to work, I'd be generally happy.
> Your answer is mentioning UTM and Parallels, which would mean we're emulating x86 commands, correct? ... if there's an arm build for Ubuntu
There is indeed an ARM build for Ubuntu (and has been for over a decade!), and this is what you would most likely want to run in a VM on an Apple Silicon machine. You can also run the x86 version emulated, but this will of course be much slower. As of the latest macOS releases, it's even possible to use Apple's "rosetta" translation software to run translated x86 binaries within an ARM linux VM, and this is likely the best thing to try first if you are using software that doesn't have ARM versions.
Like some of the other answers here mention, if there's an arm build for Ubuntu, this would get things closer to running natively on Apple Silicon I think?
I am indeed trying to ensure Vagrant will work, since that's the technology we've typically used on our team, and we have some tooling setup to take advantage of it.
Vagrant is nice because it automatically shares a folder with the regular desktop, and we have all of our setup ready to go. But I imagine I could get Parallels or UTM to do the same thing... although I wonder how much extra CPU cycles and battery drain I'll have. But as long as I can get it to work, I'd be generally happy.