Juan Alvarez nebiros

Lima (Linux virtual machines, on macOS) installation guide for M1 Mac.

Sep. 27th 2021 UPDATED

Now we can install patched version of QEMU via Homebrew (thank you everyone for the info!). Here is the updated instruction with it:

Used M1 Mac mini 2020 with macOS Big Sur Version 11.6.

1. Install QEMU & Lima

WSL2 with GUI using Xvnc

Note

If you want to use pure WSLg, you can try the new WSLg (XWayland) tutorial or the WSLg (Wayland) tutorial.

In this tutorial, we will setup GUI in WSL2, and access it using VNC. No additional software outside WSL (like VcXsrv) is required, except, of course, a VNC Viewer (RealVNC, TightVNC, TigerVNC, UVNC, etc, all of them might work flawlessly).

The key component we need to install is the desktop metapackage you want (GNOME, KDE, Xfce, Budgie, etc) and tigervnc-standalone-server.

For this setup, I will use Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04 and 24.04 are working), and install GNOME Desktop. Since the key components aren't bound to Ubuntu or GNOME, you can use your favorite distro and GUI. Check the [Sample

Enable profiling

Default http server

import (
    _ "net/http/pprof"
    "net/http"
)

Update!

This gist is out of date and I can no longer help much, as I got rid of my Mac.

Please visit T2 Linux website for more and better information:

https://t2linux.org/

Acknowledgements

This gist is just a compilation of the hard work that others have put in. I'm not a software developer, so if there are any mistakes or better ways of doing things, I'd appreciate any suggestions. Here's a list of the real heroes who made this possible:

Disable Device Enrollment Program (DEP) notification on macOS Ventura.md

Ventura docs for M2 Macs in this comment: https://gist.github.com/henrik242/65d26a7deca30bdb9828e183809690bd?permalink_comment_id=4555340#gistcomment-4555340

Old Monterey docs in this old revision: https://gist.github.com/henrik242/65d26a7deca30bdb9828e183809690bd/32c410e3a1de73539c76fa13ea5486569c4e0c5d

Solution for Sonoma: https://gist.github.com/sghiassy/a3927405cf4ffe81242f4ecb01c382ac

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	# for enable script, 'Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope CurrentUser' in Powershell,
	# for delete exist rules and ports use 'delete' as parameter, for show ports use 'list' as parameter.
	# written by Daehyuk Ahn, Aug-1-2020

	# Display all portproxy information
	If ($Args[0] -eq "list") {

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