Native agent on Apple Silicon

[atlauren]

Hi all,

Since we don’t know HCL’s plans for an Apple Silicon-native agent on macOS, I’ve submitted this idea. Please upvote if you’d like it to happen.

https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/BFP-I-152

[adinia]

Support added in 10.0.3 released yesterday

BigFix Agent now runs on Apple MacOS 11 with M1 chip!

Apple has recently introduced a set of devices based on a new chip, called M1. This is also commonly referred to as Silicon, or ARM64, from the underlying architecture. This is a big move, because for many years MacOS ran only on Intel x86-64 family processors, and Apple will progressively replace Intel chips on all new devices. With BigFix agent version 10.0.3, BigFix has added native support for MacOS 11 running on this new chip, without the need of activating an emulation layer. The instal…