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    Running Vivado on ARM64 Mac using Rosetta 2

macOS Ventura supports running x86-64 binaries on Linux VMs. However, even with Rosetta installing Vivado is not a simple one-click process. This guide covers some workarounds and tricks to get Vivado up and running on ARM64 Mac.

Make sure you're running macOS Ventura or higher.
Install UTM and create a Debian VM with Rosetta according to their guide.

Other distributions should also work, but commands will be different.


Install x86-64 version of java and libtinfo. Vivado depends on them.

$ sudo apt install default-jdk:amd64 libtinfo5:amd64

Download a copy of self-extracting web installer from Xilinx website.
Run the installer with --confirm flag.

$ /path/to/vivado/installer --confirm

The installer will print something like About to extract 40 KB in /tmp/selfgzXXXX ... Proceed ?. Check the path /tmp/selfgzXXXX, and proceed.
After extracting, the installer will ask about running ./xsetup. Before pressing y, open /tmp/selfgzXXXX/xsetup in your editor and delete architecture checking code which looks like this:

# ERROR out if this installation is running on 32 bit OS 
# and does not support 32 bit installation 
if [ "$(uname -m)" != "x86_64" ]; then
    ...
fi

Save the file and press y in the installer. Continue with installation as usual.
Patch the loader. Open /path/to/xilinx/Vivado/2022.2/bin/loader in your editor, where /path/to/xilinx is the path to Xilinx software suite installation. Remove architecture checking code as you did on step 6.