On: Running Intel Binaries in Linux VMs with Rosetta

[Sporktacular]

So this lets me run windows steam games on apple silicon, with a low performance penalty?

x86/Win game -> Steam for Windows(?) -> Linux VM Guest OS -> MacOS 13 VM Host OS -> Mac HW

[olliej → Sporktacular]

How would this help windows specifically, or are you thinking steam+wine? In which case presumably steam+wine on Mac would have lower perf overhead.

If your thinking involves a windows VM under linux you’re SOOL, as that has the same problem as an win/x86 vm on Mac: it’s a full system emulation - eg qemu, etc

Rosetta can translate user mode code, because every can either be translated to native code /or/ is a system call, and apparently Rosetta knows how to translate linux syscalls.

[nikanj → Sporktacular]

For some values of "low" anyway.

[Sporktacular → nikanj]

I guess what I don't get is the:

Steam for Windows -> Linux VM Guest OS

You can double click the Steam for Windows installer, in a Linux GUI and it installs right now? Using WINE? What magic is this?