Whonix on Mac M1 (ARM) - Development Discussion

[Patrick]

The good news:

Whonix for arm64 / Raspberry Pi (RPi)

VM --arch arm64 builds might now be functional. It might now even be possible to cross-build arm64 images while the build machine is running Intel / amd64. I am writing “might” because I only superficially tested that is booting using QEMU and I am not using any ARM64 hardware myself. Since there is no dedicated ARM64 maintainer, this might break in the future. This is because the amount of architectures, platforms I can support is limited by being only 1 person. While I added a (Kicksecure)…

The bad news:

This is mostly only interesting for Kicksecure, not Qubes because Whonix for ARM64, which includes Mac M1, M2 is still unsupported at time of writing.

The situation might improve:

• A) if there’s either a maintainer for Whonix UTM or
• B) if VirtualBox gets released for ARM64, because then I might be able to cross-build Whonix ARM64 VirtualBox builds.