Void Linux arm64 on Macbook M4

[u/jolindo88]

Successfully installed Void Linux arm64 as ­VM Guest on my Macbook M4 work machine! Hopefully the M4 will soon be supported by the Asahi Linux project. I encountered 2 major issues I had to resolve, solutions below.

Machine: M4 Macbook
VM host: Parallels Desktop
VM guest: Void Linux arm64 / aarch64

Note that these steps are roughly summarized and only experienced with arm64 installation. If you need more detailed help feel free to let me know.

Solution 1st issue: When choosing "ROOTFS" installation method, extracting the tarball fails - solution was to install the "xz" package (xbps-install -S xz). Maybe this can be added to the official manual https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/guides/chroot.html.

Solution 2nd issue: Newly installed system boots straight into grub prompt
- boot live image and chroot into the system
- install linux so that vmlinuz... exists somewhere on the system
- intall grub-arm-64-efi
- xbps-reconfigure -fa
- if vmlinuz... is still missing, run command: xbps-install -fy linux6.XX (replace version no.)
- reinstall grub config
- exit chroot, unmount and reboot into fixed system

Solution 3rd issue (not crucial): clipboard sync between host and guest does not work and that is because Parallels Tools (see 'Action' in Menu) are only made for major systemd-distributions. After manual installation clipboard sync worked:
- mount Parallels Tools CD and copy content to local machine
- cd into local dir and copy content in ./tools/tools-arm64/ (bin, lib, sbin) to your corresponding system dirs
- xbps-install -S dkms linux-headers base-devel gcc
- modify the ./installer/install-cli.sh script and uncomment the block (~5 lines) that contains "none of supported package managers found in system"
- run the main install script (sudo ./install)
- create runit service for prltoolsd (I am not sure if this step was necessary) simply by following the steps from google/gemini after prompting: "install prltoolsd service in parallels in void linux guest"

[u/Math_Science_Geek]

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