I thought one could run arm Linux in a vm? If my physical Pentium 4 box can run a game. Can I expect the same game to run inside a vm on top of an i9?
You can run ARM Linux in a VM, but here you run into the issue that box86 requires support for 32-bit ARM (it emulates 32-bit x86 on 32-bit ARM only) while Apple's CPUs are almost certain to only support 64-bit ARM.