[Docker Desktop for Mac] - Support for running x86-64 binaries with Rosetta 2

[christophermclellan]

Tell us about your request
Support Rosetta 2 for running x86-64 Linux binaries on Apple Silicon

Which service(s) is this request for?
Docker Desktop for Mac

Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?
Ensure that users can run their Intel-based workloads on Apple Silicon, using Rosetta 2

Are you currently working around the issue?
Docker Desktop users can currently use QEMU for this

[thisisthekap]

@christophermclellan With this feature, we should be able to use Microsoft SQL server for Linux on M1. This would be awesome!

[darrinholst]

we should be able to use Microsoft SQL server for Linux on M1

If this is true you're going to make many long-suffering mssql users very happy. Very much looking forward to this.

Due to the presumed qemu "issue" there is actually no workaround for running that image on arm64. (yes, I know about colima. no, it's not a viable workaround)

[thisisthekap]

@christophermclellan Are you able to provide some more detail on the plans for implementing this feature?

[arsereg]

@christophermclellan This would allow us to use Java Temurin images. Currently, they have been investing lots of time figuring out how to build images for m1, and it doesn't seem this will be solved anytime soon.

Multiple other services would work amazingly, like Payara or MSSQL

[boboldehampsink]

Another use case for running Intel on Rosetta 2 over a native amd64 image is because of dev/prod parity with the server for example - see heroku/base-images#194

[thisisthekap]

@christophermclellan Are you able to provide a timeline describing when this feature is going to be implemented?

[diogonborges]

Any development here? Ball-park timeline for this?

[konstantinos-kafkas-cko]

Please add support for Apple M1 silicon.