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		moondev on March 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Box64 – Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator Targeted a... You are correct, no nested virt support on macOS or Asahi. The rumor is this could be coming eventually to Asahi on M2, and maybe a future macOS release - but until it actually does it's a pretty huge drawback of apple silicon that is rarely mentioned.

shoo_pl on March 12, 2023 [–]

"huge"?

Am I missing something? I know of this limitation but I dont understand why would anyone need this. What's the goal or running Windows on Mac to run WSL on it?

moondev on March 24, 2023 | [–]

Doing anything involving virtualization on Linux or Windows. This also applies to macOS vms, so you can't run Docker Desktop inside a macOS vm.

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