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Subject: Re: Cygwin AArch64 testing with Windows AArch64 on qemu?
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM Arthur Norman <acn1@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Thanka for the head up - can you provide us with a pointer to Microsoft
> work on Cygwin please?

Check the cygwin-patches mailing list, and the cygwin git log. Lots of
Aarch64 related patches.

> On a Raspberry Pi 5 "botspot-VM" https://github.com/Botspot/bvm installed
> a Win11 for me fairly happily and despite it not being the fastest machine
> it is closer to viable than I might have expected.
> And on an ARM Mac you have a choice between UTM and Vmwate Fusion (and
> possibly now virtualbox).  There are wrinkles installing in several of
> those cases so expect to need to do some web checking as you go.

Yeah, extra hardware might be hard to come by for "just try", and CI
might also have the same problem. That is why I ask for qemu.

Sebi
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Sebastian Feld - IT security consultant

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