No support for Macbook Pro M1

[rasmusbirkelund]

I have been provided with a Macbook Pro M1 (2020 model Macbook with Apple Silicon), and unfortunately I am not able to use ease.

Now, the issue here isn't exactly Intuitibits fault, as EASE requires VirtualBox. In fact, the reason EASE doesn't work on Apple Silicon, is due to VirtualBox isn't supported on Apple Silicon, and thus not able to run EASE.

I just wan't to open this Issue, in order to keep track on when there might be an availability for EASE to work on Apple Silicon, since I find the tool very much useful.

[gitzone83]

It seems to be solved, at least partially now, with the ARM build available: https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.1.2/VirtualBox-7.1.2-164945-macOSArm64.dmg. However, the SAE image is x64 and will not run nonetheless.

[adriangranados]

We're still not there yet. In addition to needing a new ARM EASE image (not as easy as it sounds because of WLAN driver support), Vagrant 2.4.1 (the latest) doesn't support VirtualBox 7.1.x.

[gitzone83]

There is a relatively simple workaround for the Vagrant issue (hashicorp/vagrant#13501), and I have been able to fire up ARM Debian image through it, so I believe the only outstanding issue would be the WLAN driver support for EASE image.