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January 9, 2022

Building Homestead in 2022

There are two parts to the Homestead product: a base box named Laravel Settler and a run time Laravel Homestead. From the Settler repo, we’re able to build base boxes Homestead, Homestead-ARM, and Homestead-MariaDB. You need Packer and a Virtualization provider. You can likely build Homestead base boxes for Virtualbox, Parallels, and sometimes Hyper-V and VMware. You'll want to clone...

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October 30, 2021

Homestead Officially Supports Apple Silicon M1

October 19th, 2021 I received an email notification about a new $2,100 one time sponsorship through GitHub Sponsors program. Someone took me up on my offer to build Homestead on Apple Silicon. I'm happy to announce that Laravel Homestead now supports Apple Silicon by using the homestead-arm base box with the parallels provider. This would have been impossible without...

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November 26, 2020

Homestead on Apple Silicon

I've been asked a few times about supporting Laravel Homestead on Apple Silicon, specifically the new M1 ARM architecture. As I mentioned in the Github issue I'm not currently planning on supporting Apple Silicon because I have no intention of buying an M1 laptop anytime soon. Between the cost of a new machine with enough RAM and storage space to facilitate vagrant box building, and...

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