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VMWare Fusion on M2 with ubuntu

Aleserra — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 08:58:48 GMT

I'm currently running the latest release of Ubuntu with VMWare Fusion on M2 MacBook Pro. I'm having issues trying to download a molecular physics software called "VMD": the issue is that, downloading the Linux version, the program expects an AMD64 architecture while my system runs on ARM64. I had no issues downloading other programs such as VIM or GEDIT, I would really appreciate some help, thank you!

Re: VMWare Fusion on M2 with ubuntu

Technogeezer — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:45:17 GMT

AMD64 code is 64-bit Intel - that will not run under Ubuntu for ARM64 vim and gedit run because they have been recompiled by Ubuntu to run on ARM64.

options:

See if the author has a version that is compiled for ARM64, or provides source code that could potentially be rebuilt on ARM64.
someone posted a link to an open open-source x64 to ARM translator for Linux (similar to Rosetta on macOS) that may allow your program to run. Might be something to investigate.
When running on a hypervisor application that supports Apple’s high level virtualization framework (like UTM) Apple has a way to use Rosetta in ARM64 Linux operating systems. That will not work for fusion because it uses a different set of Apple’s frameworks that does not support Rosetta.

Re: VMWare Fusion on M2 with ubuntu

Technogeezer — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 14:00:29 GMT

By “VMD”, do you mean the VMD program that is provided by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign? If so, they have an alpha version 1.6.4 that runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs.

Re: VMWare Fusion on M2 with ubuntu

Aleserra — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 21:26:57 GMT

I'm aware of that thank you, I need to use a Linux machine because some other programs don't have a Apple Silicon version.

Thank you for the other reply, I'll look more into the x64 to ARM translator

Re: VMWare Fusion on M2 with ubuntu

palter — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 00:23:07 GMT

It's Box64.