Well, technically I taught kvm-xfstests how to use qemu to use MacOS's Hypervisor Virtualization Framework (hvf) --- hvf is MacOS / Apple Silicon's analogue to kvm on x86_64 --- to boot an arm64 Linux kernel, and I'm using the arm64 test appliance that had been created to run on Google Compute Engine's arm platforms to run xfstests on a Macbook Air M2. The arm64 kernel was built using the "install-kconfig ; kbuild" commands which are shipped with xfstests-bld[1], and the same kernel can be used for arn64 GCE VM's in the cloud. For now the kernel was built in a Parallels VM running Debian Testing, although there are some hacks[2] to allow you to build a Linux kernel using Apple's XCode compilers without needing to boot up a Parallels VM. I haven't had time to play with that yet, though. [1] https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld [2] https://github.com/GayPizzaSpecifications/mac-linux-kdk A quick demo video of this all working can be found here[3], and all of the changes have been checked in and are available at [1]. [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF_bcOCf_5Y - Ted P.S. Note: the current version of gcc-13 shipping with Debian testing as of this writing will core dump while building one of the kernel files (with host=aarch64 and target=aarch64) from v6.7-rc5. This appears to be a compiler bug in gcc; Clang works just fine building the arm64 test kernel which I used for this demo. P.P.S. Yes, "kvm-xfstests" is more and more of a misnomer these days; the script can also be called as "qemu-xfstests", but I find "kvm-xfstests" easier to type. :-) P.P.P.S. No, I haven't tried using Asahi Linux on my Macbook Air M2 15" yet --- it's on my todo list to play with --- but it should work just fine there. There may be some minor changes needed to the scripts in kvm-xfstests so that it works on a Fedora userspace, since I do all of my development using Debian. It should mostly work, as I did fixed up issues so that kvm-xfstests would work on Fedora/x86_64 a few months ago. Some things may have bit rotted though, and I only got the ability to run the test appliance working on Fedora; building an updated Test Appliance doesn't yet work, since it would require getting debootstrap to work on Fedora. Patches welcome...
