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Box64 - Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64, RV64 and LoongArch Linux devices

15 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 3 stories, 12 comments · first 2021-07-15 · latest 2025-07-27

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  1. box64: https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64
    comment by ankurdhama · 2025-07-27 · in Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops
  2. …trick where it intercepts library calls and redirects them to native versions of the same library. http://github.com/ptitSeb/box64
    comment by ThatPlayer · 2025-07-27 · in Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops
  3. …support" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37197074 /? box64 is:pr RISC-V is:closed: https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/pulls?q=is%3Apr+risc-v+is%3...
    comment by westurner · 2025-05-02 · in Felix86: Run x86-64 programs on RISC-V Linux
  4. …enough about aarch64 to know what ARM64X and ARM64EC do, though. I can find [a Github comment]( https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/pull/858#issuecomment-16057... ) where one of the authors states that the goal is to implement ARM64EC, but I…
    comment by jeroenhd · 2024-12-30 · in MiceWine – run Windows applications and games on Android smartphones
  5. …example Steam cannot run on box64 alone because it's a hybrid with both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries: https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/?tab=readme-ov-file#notes-a... Wine has beta support for 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit-only wine,…
    comment by ThatPlayer · 2024-10-10 · in AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
  6. Author here, we have adopted this approach as a fast path to box64: https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/pull/1763 , thank you very much!
    comment by ksco · 2024-08-27 · in Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V
  7. …Wine, but that can only run Windows ARM programs, not x86. Instead box64 is running the x86_64 Wine https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/blob/main/docs/X64WINE.md
    comment by ThatPlayer · 2024-08-27 · in Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V
  8. …simulate the entrypoints through Rosetta and then execute native aarch64 code from there. On Linux https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64 does exactly that, for example. However, with the performance Apple has been able to squeeze out of…
    comment by jeroenhd · 2023-06-07 · in DirectX 12 Support on macOS
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    Box64 – Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator Targeted at ARM64 Linux Devices
    story by varbhat · 2023-03-11 · 42 comments
  10. You could have a look at box86 and box64: https://box86.org/ | https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64 I haven't tried them myself, but I've read consistent testimony that the performance (and compatibility) is great.
    comment by zamalek · 2023-03-03 · in ARM64 Linux Workstation
  11. https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64 can do it a little lighter than a full qemu VM
    comment by skrowl · 2023-01-24 · in Wine 8.0
  12. …as close to the real hardware as possible[, I accept] some approximation [for speed] Link to Box64: https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64 Benchmarks seem to reveal a performance of 85% the original.
    comment by mdp2021 · 2022-08-20 · in There is Life After the Death of x86 [ - The Box86 and Box64 projects]
  13. …them, but I failed to compile box64 this weekend so I stayed with qemu. [1] https://box86.org/ | https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/
    comment by jraph · 2022-04-25 · in Transparently running binaries from any architecture in Linux (2018)
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    Box64 lets you run x86_64 programs on non-x86_64 systems
    story by marcodiego · 2021-11-20 · 21 comments
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    Box64: Run x86_64 Code on ARM64 Architecture
    story by colbydray · 2021-07-15 · 0 comments