Vscode-remote-release: Support for connecting to Apple Silicon/M1/ARM64 remote

[smokris]

When I use Visual Studio Code 1.51.1 running on macOS 11.0.1 x86_64 and attempt to connect using remote-ssh 0.56.0 to a macOS 11.0.1 arm64 system, the VS Code Server fails to start on the remote system:

[13:47:19.278] > /Users/…/.vscode-server/bin/e5a624b788d92b8d34d1392e4c4d9789406efe8f/server.sh: line 12: /Users/…/.vscode-server/bin/e5a624b788d92b8d34d1392e4c4d9789406efe8f/node: Bad CPU type in executable

That binary is x86_64 only, whereas (in order for it to work natively / without needing the Rosetta translation layer) it should be arm64 or "Universal" (x86_64 + arm64).

$ file .vscode-server/bin/e5a624b788d92b8d34d1392e4c4d9789406efe8f/node
.vscode-server/bin/e5a624b788d92b8d34d1392e4c4d9789406efe8f/node: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

[roblourens]

@joaomoreno are we building the server for this yet? I don't see the mac arm build on our builds page

[joaomoreno]

@deepak1556 Is the right person to ping.

[gorilla-1]

I have the same issue with my WSL at VS Code
e5a624b788d92b8d34d1392e4c4d9789406efe8f: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching

[deepak1556]

Yeah I had left this out for the exploration release, definitely something to add. Thanks for opening the issue!

[deepak1556]

Since we download prebuilt node binaries for the remote, and there is no arm64 version available yet. This feature cannot move forward until then.

[richiksc]

Is this feature required to move forward with microsoft/vscode#106770, and does it prevent the exploration build from being promoted to Insiders? Just curious.

[deepak1556]

Not it doesn't. Once we have vscode stable 1.52, the next insiders following it will contain mac arm builds too.

[johnwiseheart]

Definitely excited about this, since I believe its the final thing left to get my corporate set-up working on a new M1 mac.

For context, we spin up docker containers on our local machines and attach to them - so on M1 mac's, the docker containers are running ARM Alpine, and seeing the error Alpine Linux is not supported on the hardware architecture 'aarch64' of the container. when attaching to them using vscode remote - containers.

[rickardp]

What is the status on the ARM64/Alpine support?

The current workaround for me is to pin every Docker image reference to the SHA256 of the X64 version. I believe there is no setting to force the x64 arch by default, at least I couldn't find one, so this starts to get a little messy.