Corellium, an American ARM-based device virtualization startup, has launched one of its Linux distributions on the latest Apple Mac Mini. This is no mean feat, which is only the first step to conveniently installing Ubuntu and other system variants. Of course, the solution can also be used in other Apple computers with this system, i.e. in MacBook Air and MacBook Pro from the end of last year. All we need is a system image in rpi format and a USB data carrier. Although the experiment can be called a fully successful one, not everything works as it should at the start. Here are the details of the enterprise.

Linux on Apple computers with M1 chip. Ubuntu has been ported to the latest MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini models. We owe the achievement to Corellium from Florida.

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Some specialists working on Apple computers with macOS also need access to other platforms such as Windows or Linux distributions. You can run them through a so-called virtual machine, but sometimes you need to “set the system up completely”. This is not possible on new Apple computers with the M1 chip, and in fact it was not, because such a process was successfully carried out by the team from Corellium. Chris Wade, one of the company’s directors, boasted of an achievement that can be treated as a good start for further activities.

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The installation can be run from an Ubuntu image saved in rpi format on a USB drive. The system can easily cope with the full processor power, while software rendering is responsible for graphics support. Unfortunately, the specialists failed to force the GPU to accelerate, but this is only the first version of the solution. Perhaps in the near future it will be possible to solve this problem and eliminate the inconvenience. You can find the necessary files here.

Source: Chris Wade, Corellium