Whonix on Mac M1 (ARM) - User Support (still unsupported at time of writing)

[Patrick]

@kviz

Would wait for VirtualBox running on ARM.

@Patrick

VirtualBox

Oracle hasn’t announced any such plans. That doesn’t seem likely at this time at all. That could be years, if ever.

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=98742

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/20192

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Potential build speed up coming to mind for developer builds:

Whonix build script now optionally supports installing packages from Whonix remote repository rather than building packages locally

By adding --remote-derivative-packages true Whonix images will be build with packages from Whonix developers repository. No packages will be build locally. This option is optional. This option is opt-in. This option is useful for me during development, during creation of developers-only test images. It saves a ton of time having to rebuild all packages again and rebuilding these packages over and over again for each build. This option might be useful for other developers who work on aspect…

…but probably miss out on platform specific packages:
Existing Ports of and Porting Whonix to other Architectures