Installation issue in Macbook Pro M1 MacOS BigSur about singularity HOT 4 CLOSED

@tri-adam @dtrudg Thank you for your responses. I will try those suggestions. But yeah, I hope there would be developments for this. :)

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@JoyceVelos - the vagrant boxes are currently only created for VirtualBox on x86_64 architectures (Intel based Macs).

VirtualBox does not support M1 macs, as it focuses on Intel/AMD virtual machines, while M1 Macs use a different ARM processor: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=100875

As far as I am aware, the only consumer targeted VM software supporting M1 at present is Parallels. You may be able to manually install a Linux VM in Parallels, and then install Singularity inside of that, but this is not something we have tried.

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@JoyceVelos I feel your pain! As an M1 Macbook Air owner, virtualization is one of the niggles.

Most Vagrant setups use VirtualBox, and to date it doesn't look like there is a path forward there (yet). There's some extra context in hashicorp/vagrant#12105.

We'll have to wait and see what the best path forward is here in the tech we rely on. Until there's a combination of Vagrant and hypervisor support for M1 Macs, I'd echo @dtrudg 's suggestion of taking a look at Parallels or UTM.

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For anyone trying and stumbling upon this thread: I tried using parallels, but the problem is that you cannot install go in the VM, which, however, is a prerequisite for Singularity. So, sadly, it's also a dead end.

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