Nowadays Apple MacBooks (and iPads) are based on the Apple M1 chip, which has an arm64 (a.k.a. It seems that since 2021 Apple is phasing out its Intel-based MacBooks (i.e. There will be no official support for M1 with 7.0, not even for ARM virtualization, let alone x86 emulation on ARM.

[The other free SAP system is called ABAP Trial and is delivered as a Docker image: We will look at the older one of these, called SAP NetWeaver Developer Edition, which is obtainable here: SAP offers two kinds of free SAP systems for use by the SAP Community. Treat the M1 build as a very very early technical preview please, the Beta label is completely misleading and will be changed (this comes from the automated build system and aligns with the rest of the builds). This should be possible to run on Apple M1 machines via Docker Desktop… but currently (March 2022) this image is in “disabled” state as it awaits patching for a security vulnerability, so I will wait until that patching has been done before testing this]. Now the SAP NetWeaver Dev Edition runs solely on amd64 architectures, and all the tutorials and blogs showing how to install it assume that the host machine and/or guest VM (Virtual Machine) has amd64 processor architecture. This blog might be the first tutorial which shows how to install and run SAP NetWeaver Dev Edition on arm64 architecture, using a technique called emulation.

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