Arm guest machine on x64 host machine

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DevTurtle
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Arm guest machine on x64 host machine

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Is it possible to run an arm based is in a VM on a 64 bit host is?
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Re: Arm guest machine on x64 host machine

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No. In VirtualBox, the vm uses the processor which is in the physical PC. It does not emulate a processor.

QEMU is a possibility. It is an emulator.
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Re: Arm guest machine on x64 host machine

Post by mpack »

Possible yeah, but then you run into practicalities: a simulator is going to be tens of thousands of times slower than hardware. So for real work the answer is: no it is not possible to run ARM code on a Intel processor (or vice versa).
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