Run AMD64 container on ARM64

[Martan404]

According to the documentation it is possible to run ARM64 containers on AMD64. Is the same true for running AMD64 containers on ARM64?

I have installed Arch Linux ARM on my Raspberry Pi 3 and I can not get it to work. Since I couldn't find the qemu-user-static
and binfmt-support packages I instead installed qemu-base, qemu-user and qemu-user-binfmt along with the distrobox and podman packages.

Running distrobox create -i docker.io/library/archlinux:latest -n archbox throws me an error saying Error: choosing an image from manifest list docker://archlinux:latest: no image found in manifest list for architecture arm64, variant "v8", OS linux

Running distrobox create -i quay.io/toolbx-images/archlinux-toolbox:latest -n archbox throws me an error saying

Creating 'archbox' using image quay.io/toolbx-images/archlinux-toolbox:latest   WARNING: image platform (linux/amd64) does not match the expected platform (linux/arm64)
 [ OK ]
Distrobox 'archbox' successfully created.
To enter, run:

distrobox enter archbox

[martin@arch-pi3 ~]$ distrobox enter archbox                                          
Container archbox is not running.
Starting container archbox
run this command to follow along:

 podman logs -f archbox

 Error: could not start entrypoint.
{"msg":"exec container process (missing dynamic library?) `/usr/bin/entrypoint`: No such file or directory","level":"error","time":"2023-11-20T17:37:23.796319Z"}

[Martan404]

I got it working on Raspbian by running sudo apt-get install -y qemu-user-static binfmt-support and then distrobox create -i quay.io/toolbx-images/archlinux-toolbox:latest -n archbox

So now my question is, can this be done on Arch? qemu-user-static is nowhere to be seen in the official repo and the AUR. I found a project called multiarch that provides qemu-user-static binaries but I no idea what to do with them. I tried downloading qemu-x86_64-static then renaming and moving it to /usr/bin/qemu-user-static with no success.

[Martan404]

I will just stick to Raspbian on my Pi since it's better documented and supported. Marked as solved