Silicon-Info VS UTM

It's a free, open-source utility that someone has generously released to the public. I find it useful. I often install and run lots of different apps and open-source things, and sometimes it's convenient to be able to just look at an icon in the menu bar to confirm whether something is running under Rosetta or not. Other people find it useful too. Just because you don't have a use for it, doesn't mean nobody else in the world does either.

> Curious to see what, if anything, is running under translation

There's a useful app called Silicon Info on Github (https://github.com/billycastelli/Silicon-Info) and also on the Mac App Store.

It adds a menu bar icon that switches according to the currently-focused app's architecture.

{ pkgs ? import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/b58ada326aa612ea1e2fb9a53d550999e94f1985.tar.gz") {} }: pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation rec { pname = "silicon-info"; version = "1.0.3"; src = pkgs.fetchurl { url = "https://github.com/billycastelli/Silicon-Info/releases/download/1.0.3/Silicon.Info.app.zip"; sha256 = "raa6RmXiqilz4vrvWfMSzIKuaJUFI2xMLUErw64Y0Pk="; }; installPhase = '' mkdir -p $out/Applications mv "Silicon Info.app" $out/Applications ''; meta = with pkgs.lib; { description = "Silicon Info is a tiny menu bar application allows the user to quickly view the architecture of the currently running application."; license = licenses.mit; homepage = "https://github.com/billycastelli/Silicon-Info"; platforms = platforms.darwin; }; }

Of course, it is free and open source (check out the code on Github!).

If you already own an Apple Silicon Mac and want to know which apps are running natively as opposed to via Rosetta 2 translation, you can download Silicon Info and see a report of the apps

I'm not sure OP is the developer, but moreso someone trying to just share.. mac app news. I feel the picture and description is self explanatory if you have one, but the full github release is here: https://github.com/billycastelli/Silicon-Info

If you have TrollStore then install the HV version of UTM to try for yourself: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/releases/latest/download/UTM.HV.ipa

Researching a little showed that this is basically what can be expected running x86 emulation and the systems will just be wonky and slow, although it was running flawlessly, just slow.

There seem to be ways to use Rosetta2 inside a VM [0] to then translate binaries but I found no official support or documentation (using UTM+QEMU that was), this would be such a cool feature, at least there are discussions about it [1,2]

- [0] https://mybyways.com/blog/using-rosetta-in-a-utm-linux-vm-wi...

- [1] https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/discussions/4939

- [2] https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/5460

UTM is open source too though: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM#license

UTM makes it easy to set up and manage macOS and Windows virtual machines. This can be especially useful for developers such as Tauri contributors who need to test their applications across multiple platforms, or for those looking to experiment with different operating systems without affecting their primary system.

If you don't need high performance and want to use the OS only occasionally, check UTM.app, at https://mac.getutm.app/ (or https://github.com/utmapp/UTM ). Free, open source.