topic Re: Gaia iso for ARM chip in Firewall and Security Management

Gaia iso for ARM chip

amgamundani — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 01:30:34 GMT

Is there anyone who managed to run a Virtual Machine on the Apple M1 Max Chip, where they have been successful with installing the Gaia OS from the iso ? I trying to setup the CCSA lab environment and stuck as to whether there could be any Gaia iso compatible with the M1 Max chip.

Re: Gaia iso for ARM chip

PhoneBoy — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 03:46:15 GMT

Gaia runs on X86 hardware, not ARM.
That means your emulator would also have to emulate X86 on top of ARM.
Whether that works is a separate question.

Re: Gaia iso for ARM chip

G_W_Albrecht — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 08:57:36 GMT

Should work with the UTM app from Apple Store that uses QEMU - currently, VMWare Fusion Tech is only in state Preview...

Re: Gaia iso for ARM chip

write2mubin — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:40:13 GMT

No I have already check using UTM software but it dosen't work. I was testing on M3 chip

Re: Gaia iso for ARM chip

G_W_Albrecht — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:54:01 GMT

Why reply to a post from 05-12-2021 ?

Re: Gaia iso for ARM chip

write2mubin — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:57:14 GMT

Sorry I was looking for an article as I was evaluating this on M3 but I missed to check the date for this post.

Anyway the latest update is that till now there is no more ARM support

Re: Gaia iso for ARM chip

G_W_Albrecht — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:40:41 GMT

This is not true - see:

sk170777: Support of Windows on ARM processor for Remote Access Clients

sk176663: Harmony Endpoint Client for Windows on ARM processor platform support

But:

https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/GAIA-R80-40-Install-on-Paralells-MAC-M1-ARM/m-p/140644#M24917

Re: Gaia iso for ARM chip

write2mubin — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:03:16 GMT

I am not talking about running checkpoint client on M3 processor

Re: Gaia iso for ARM chip

G_W_Albrecht — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:35:53 GMT

Nobody will want to run a CP GAiA GW / SMS on a unit with Apple Macintosh M3 processor - this is just much to expensive ! See https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/GAIA-R80-40-Install-on-Paralells-MAC-M1-ARM/m-p/140706/highlight/true#M24929

Re: Gaia iso for ARM chip

PhoneBoy — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:02:52 GMT

To run this on an ARM-based system, you'd have to have an emulator capable of emulating x86 hardware.
Parallels does not do that.

Re: Gaia iso for ARM chip

Bob_Zimmerman — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:40:17 GMT

Note that I would personally like to see the management software built for aarch64. I just don't think it's going to happen.

I ended up getting a small amd64 VM host to run my management VMs for API development. Super Micro A2SDi-8C-HLN4F (Intel Atom C3758; 8c8t, 25W TDP), 128 GB of RAM, a 500 GB NVMe SSD, four 1 TB SATA SSDs, and Akasa Euler M case (fanless). It's a slightly boosted Antsle one D+ (2x default RAM, 2x default SATA SSDs). Mine is running Windows Server 2019 Datacenter with Storage Spaces and Hyper-V. I use the R81.20 CloudGuard image plus some scripts and a few OpenBSD VMs to build a rotating SmartCenter and a separate rotating MDS, both with eval licenses.