https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Fusion-22H2-Tech-Preview/Unable-to-install-CentOS-7-on-VMWare-fusion-for-Macbook-M1/td-p/2908072
I am unable to install centos 7 on VMWare Fusion on my Macbook Air M1.
On
the installation screen I am hitting `enter` on 'Install Centos 7` but
nothing is happening and the screen is circling on the same page
Circling on this screen
CentOS isn't tested or supported.
We make no claims about this OS in the testing guide.
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Michael Roy - PM/PMM: Fusion & Workstation
CentOS 7 or 8 will not boot on the Tech Preview because their
kernels are built with a 64KB page size that Apple Silicon hardware does
not support. RHEL 7 and 8 suffer from the same issue.
RHEL
9 changed the page size on ARM architectures to 4KB. CentOS 9 Stream
made the same change. They both will boot ( well they did before the
recent round of kernel releases that cause pretty much all Linux distros
to not boot on the TP - that’s another story altogether)
ah, so that why nothing works on fusion.
**bleep**.... Well, guess its time to look at other solutions for hypervisor.
If you can be patient, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the
next Fusion Tech Preview release (coming soon???) will make the kernel
boot problems we're now seeing go away. Before these cropped up, the
Tech Preview was working quite well for RHEL related releases such as
Fedora, CentOS 9 Stream, and RHEL 9. (as well as other distros).
You
might want to check out the free UTM (which is a more user friendly
front end to QEMU) to run the latest ARM Linux releases ( not
CentOS/RHEL 7 or 8 )rather than paying for Parallels. UTM can run ARM
Linux distros in virtualized mode, so it doesn't pay the penalty of
trying to emulate a CPU. They've already fixed the issue that keeps
newer Linux kernels from booting. It doesn't have all the features of
Fusion, but It might tide you over until an updated Tech Preview. is
released.
That won't fix the page size issue for older OS's though, right? So CentOS 7 is unlike to work with any hypervisor?
@dlhotka is
correct. CentOS 7 or 8, RHEL 7 or 8, and Rocky Linux 8 won't run on M1
hardware under anyone's hypervisor. Period. That's a function of Apple
Silicon hardware that it doesn't support a 64KB page size, and
virtualization isn't going to be able to work around that.
I think the M1 is going to be one of those major technical
breaks that forces a lot of upgrading. At some point we have to pay off
the tech debt 🙂
True.
The M1's performance and performance/watt of power
is certainly challenging the perception that "real computers have Intel
Inside or AMD..." . And that ARM is only good for phones and tablets.
This is so deja vu - I have been in the business long enough to see 2 paradigm shifts:
- Mainframe to minicomputer - "Real computing gets done on IBM mainframes"
- UNIX
vendors of SPARC, POWER, HP-PA, MIPS, etc. considered Intel x86 chips
as the "little brothers of computing" and that "real computing isn't
done on Intel - that's for desktops"..
Its weird, i talked to parrallels support and some in RHEL they all say that it doesnt support mac m1 architecture.
both centos stream 9 and rhel 9 😕
By “it”, are you referring to CentOS 7/8? I can understand that
both Parallels and Red Hat would say “not supported on M1” because of
the page size issue. And because of the Apple “special sauce” no Linux
release other than Asahi Linux will boot natively on M1s.
The
Fusion Tech Preview seems to implement the aarch64 “System Ready” spec
that does allow Linux to run in VMs. Both CentOS 9 Stream and RHEL 9 run
nicely on what the TP provides (I’ve run both). Given both RHEL 9 and
CentOS Stream 9 are downstream releases from Fedora 34, and Fedora 34 is
one of the releases that VMware seems to be testing the TP on, its not
surprising that they work.
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