General

This is an overview of my self created ARM64 (AARCH64) images/boxes that are fully compatible to Vagrant and Apple Silicon chips which makes the live for DevOps easier when running in newer Apple Mac hardware. In the past, many DevOps used Vagrant together with VirtualBox (VBox) in their default setups to quickly spawn new VMs. However, when switching from AMD64 (Intel architecture) to Apple Silicon (M1/M2) there was a lack of unsupported tools which broke many workflows. Now, you can use it with VMware Fusion and Vagrant to keep your workflow. Further information on the free VMware Fusion for Mac can be found here.

Images

Currently, the following images/boxes for arm64 (aarch64) are present:

• Alpine 3.18.4 (Standard)
• Alpine Desktop XFCE 3.18.4
• Arch Linux 2023.10.07
• CentOS 9 Stream
• Debian 11.8 Bullseye
• Debian 12.1 Bookworm
• Debian 12.1 Bookworm with Semaphore WebUI server (Ansible+MariaDB)
• Fedora 38 (server)
• Fedora 39 (server)
• FreeBSD 13.2
• FreeBSD 14 Beta 4
• FreeBSD 14 Beta 5
• FreeBSD 14 RC1
• FreeBSD 14 RC2
• FreeBSD 14 RC3
• FreeBSD 14 RC4
• FreeBSD 15 Current 20231102 (non final; dev)
• Garden Linux 934.10 (vmware-gardener-vagrant_dev)
• Gentoo 20231008-OpenRC (Kernel: 6.1.53-gentoo-r1-gyptazy)
• Kali Linux 2023.3
• NixOS 23.05
• OpenSuse Tumbleweed
• Oracle Linux Server 7.9
• Oracle Linux Server 8.8
• Oracle Linux Server 9.2
• Pop!_OS 22.04 (Gnome GUI)
• Rocky Linux 9.2
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish
• Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop LTS Jammy Jellyfish
• Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster
• Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop Lunar Lobster
• Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur
• Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop Mantic Minotaur
• VMware Photon OS 5.0 GA (minimal)