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How To set up Vivado on MacOS

rscasny
rscasny over 3 years ago

I had someone contact me about the need to set up Vivado on a Mac. I don't get this question very often. I don't think it's directly supported.

If you have set it up on a Mac, I'd be interested in getting your comments/experiences to pass onto him.

Thanks.

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  • Metaforest
    Metaforest over 3 years ago +2
    Set up a VMWare Fusion VM running Ubuntu 16 or 18. This will only work well if the host Mac has 4 or more cores, more than 16 GB of RAM and more than 100GB storage available to the VM. If the Mac cannot…
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    bradfordmiller over 3 years ago in reply to dimiterk +1
    It also needs to be on an Intel Mac; I'm not aware of M1 Macs that can (easily) run Intel VMs.
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    bradfordmiller over 3 years ago in reply to Metaforest +1
    An M1 VMWare Fusion *does* run on an M1, but it will only run OS's compiled for ARM. And I'm not aware of a version of Linux that has Rosetta capabilities to run x86 under ARM (yet), but as you say even…
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  • dimiterk
    dimiterk over 3 years ago

    Vmware with Ubuntu copy would be the way to go on a Mac.

    Vivado supports only a handful of Linux distributions only (mostly RHEL, Ubuntu)

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    bradfordmiller over 3 years ago in reply to dimiterk

    It also needs to be on an Intel Mac; I'm not aware of M1 Macs that can (easily) run Intel VMs.

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    Metaforest over 3 years ago in reply to bradfordmiller

    VMWare Fusion might run on an M1(Apple says most x64 software will run on the M1), but performance in the context of trying to run a Linux OS and a massive bloatware like Vivado is probably a deal breaker.

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  • Metaforest
    Metaforest over 3 years ago in reply to bradfordmiller

    VMWare Fusion might run on an M1(Apple says most x64 software will run on the M1), but performance in the context of trying to run a Linux OS and a massive bloatware like Vivado is probably a deal breaker.

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    bradfordmiller over 3 years ago in reply to Metaforest

    An M1 VMWare Fusion *does* run on an M1, but it will only run OS's compiled for ARM. And I'm not aware of a version of Linux that has Rosetta capabilities to run x86 under ARM (yet), but as you say even if it did... I'm running Parallels and a 20.4 version of Ubuntu (ARM) but no current path to run x86 on that. 

    Ref: communities.vmware.com/.../2868125

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