- Running lscpu in a Arch Linux ARM installation (Option 2 in Asahi installer from march 2022) doesn't state any virtualisation (see snippet 1 below)
- Trying to install QEMU with sudo pacman -S qemu-system-aarch64 throws an unresolvable dependency in "edk2-armvirt" (see snippet 2 below)
Architecture: aarch64
CPU op-mode(s): 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 8
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7
Vendor ID: Apple
Model name: Icestorm
Model: 1
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 4
Socket(s): 1
Stepping: 0x1
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 65%
CPU max MHz: 2064.0000
CPU min MHz: 600.0000
BogoMIPS: 48.00
Flags: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid
asimdrdm jscvt fcma lrcpc dcpop sha3 asimd dp sha512 asimdfhm dit
uscat ilrcpc flagm ssbs sb paca pacg dcpodp flagm2 frint
Model name: Firestorm
Model: 1
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 4
Socket(s): 1
Stepping: 0x1
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 19%
CPU max MHz: 3204.0000
CPU min MHz: 600.0000
BogoMIPS: 48.00
Flags: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid
asimdrdm jscvt fcma lrcpc dcpop sha3 asimd dp sha512 asimdfhm dit
uscat ilrcpc flagm ssbs sb paca pacg dcpodp flagm2 frint
Vulnerabilities:
Itlb multihit: Not affected
L1tf: Not affected
Mds: Not affected
Meltdown: Not affected
Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Spectre v1: Mitigation; __user pointer sanitization
Spectre v2: Not affected
Srbds: Not affected
Tsx async abort: Not affected
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$ sudo pacman -S qemu-system-aarch64
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "edk2-armvirt", a dependency of "qemu-system-aarch64"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
qemu-system-aarch64
:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N]
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