Let's take Qt online installer and Qt Creator as an example.
At the time of this writing:
- macOS 13.0 Beta (22A5266r)
- Xcode 14.0 beta (14A5228q)
Download RunningGUILinuxInAVirtualMachineOnAMac.zip
diff --git a/GUILinuxVirtualMachineSampleApp/AppDelegate.swift b/GUILinuxVirtualMachineSampleApp/AppDelegate.swift
index 332eb5d..7135702 100644
--- a/GUILinuxVirtualMachineSampleApp/AppDelegate.swift
+++ b/GUILinuxVirtualMachineSampleApp/AppDelegate.swift
@@ -177,6 +177,14 @@ class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate, VZVirtualMachineDelegate {
return consoleDevice
}
+ private func createRosettaShareDeviceConfiguration() -> VZVirtioFileSystemDeviceConfiguration {
+ let rosettaDirectoryShare = try! VZLinuxRosettaDirectoryShare()
+ let directorySharingDevice = VZVirtioFileSystemDeviceConfiguration(tag: "RosettaShare")
+ directorySharingDevice.share = rosettaDirectoryShare
+
+ return directorySharingDevice
+ }
+
// MARK: Create the virtual machine configuration and instantiate the virtual machine.
func createVirtualMachine() {
@@ -219,6 +227,7 @@ class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate, VZVirtualMachineDelegate {
virtualMachineConfiguration.keyboards = [VZUSBKeyboardConfiguration()]
virtualMachineConfiguration.pointingDevices = [VZUSBScreenCoordinatePointingDeviceConfiguration()]
virtualMachineConfiguration.consoleDevices = [createSpiceAgentConsoleDeviceConfiguration()]
+ virtualMachineConfiguration.directorySharingDevices = [createRosettaShareDeviceConfiguration()]
try! virtualMachineConfiguration.validate()
virtualMachine = VZVirtualMachine(configuration: virtualMachineConfiguration)
Build and run the sample.
Upon running, the application will prompt for an ISO image, here ubuntu-22.04-live-server-arm64.iso is used.
Follow the installation procedure, and note that VM disk image will be placed under ~/GUI Linux VM.bundle/Disk.img.
sudo apt install binfmt-support
mkdir /tmp/mountpoint
sudo mount -t virtiofs RosettaShare /tmp/mountpoint
sudo /usr/sbin/update-binfmts --install rosetta /tmp/mountpoint/rosetta \
--magic "\x7fELF\x02\x01\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x3e\x00" \
--mask "\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfe\xfe\x00\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfe\xff\xff\xff" \
--credentials yes --preserve no --fix-binary yes
Note the RosettaShare tag is defined in VZVirtioFileSystemDeviceConfiguration, YMMV.
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following section:
deb [arch=amd64] http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main universe
deb [arch=amd64] http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main universe
Then
sudo dpkg --add-architecture amd64
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libgl1:amd64 libegl1:amd64 libglib2.0-0:amd64 libwayland-cursor0:amd64
sudo apt install gdm3 ubuntu-desktop-minimal x11-xserver-utils xorg
sudo service gdm start
And that's it! :-)
With xquartz and socat installed on the macOS host, the old trick of running Linux GUI application directly on the macOS desktop still works. Please see the reference link for more info about this.
On the host:
HOSTIP=$(ifconfig en0 | grep inet | awk '$1=="inet" {print $2}')
DISPLAY=:0.0 /opt/X11/bin/xhost + $HOSTIP
socat TCP-LISTEN:6000,reuseaddr,fork UNIX-CLIENT:\"$DISPLAY\"
And launch application from the guest:
DISPLAY=$HOSTIP:0 ~/Qt/Tools/QtCreator/bin/qtcreator &
