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Vagrant box with preCICE and examples preinstalled
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arm64 Compatibility #49

Open ckarampa opened 1 year ago

ckarampa commented 1 year ago

Tried installing the VM for a hands-on session on a MacBook with Apple M1 Pro processor.

Vagrant can be installed via brew and works fine.

VirtualBox is not compatible with arm architecture chips, and from what I saw it cannot work with Rosetta. ( https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=98742 ). I guess there is not much you can do in terms of fixing it, but maybe there is an alternative for arm systems.

MakisH commented 1 year ago

Thanks for reporting! What other hypervisors would work on M1? We already have made some progress for libvirt, maybe we can also add another one.

ckarampa commented 1 year ago

To be honest I have no experience with VMs, so I cannot recommend anything. Do you suggest that I could somehow make it work with libvirt?

MakisH commented 1 year ago

I see that libvirt-m1 is on homebrew, so in principle this can work.

@fsimonis added the libvirt support here with https://github.com/precice/vm/pull/25.

This will take an hour or two of building (maybe shorter on M1), but it would be very helpful if you could give us some feedback if this works. As stated in the README, please clone this repository and run: vagrant up --provider=libvirt.

If this works, we can already invest more time in polishing and packaging this.

ckarampa commented 1 year ago

Funilly enough, I just checked the VirtualBox webpage again and now they are offering a Developer preview for macOS / Arm64 (M1/M2) hosts ( which wasn't there yesterday ) so I'll give this a try!

MakisH commented 1 year ago

@ckarampa did you manage to solve this? If yes, how? Any feedback on this would be very helpful. :smile:

ckarampa commented 1 year ago

Hey! I tried to use the developer preview of VirtualBox I mentioned, but couldn't make it work. This was all during a hands-on session, so I preferred to work with another participant on their PC instead of trying to make it work on my system and missing the whole thing. I have not tried it since though, I am sorry.

MakisH commented 1 year ago

Related: https://github.com/Simulation-Software-Engineering/Lecture-Material/issues/145