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I have an Apple M1 processor (ARM64). Is there any way to spin a x86_64 machine? By default Multipass 1.8.0 is launching ARM64 Ubuntu instances.

Alessandro Dionisi
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    See the Multipass M1 Release Candidate announcement: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/announcing-the-first-release-candidate-for-apple-m1-support/24445 . It's in testing, so you are agreeing to report bugs and rough edges! – user535733 Nov 01 '21 at 11:59
  • This issue is also being tracked [here on GitHub](https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/886). – brian-ammon May 24 '22 at 10:57

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Currently, you cannot.

The discussion @user535733 links to has (Nov '21):

We’re looking into cross-architecture runs for the future, but it’s not going to happen very soon. You could try and build qemu upstream, though - you need qemu-x86_64-static.

The QEMU use at the moment (Apr 2022) is about being able to run ARM binaries on x86_64 hardware, not the other way round.

akauppi
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lima https://github.com/lima-vm/lima is the only project that I know that allows you to run x86_64 on M1

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