Which to use to virtualise Monterey on an Apple silicon Mac: Parallels Desktop, UTM or VirtualBuddy? A survey of their strengths and problems.
Monterey
During this transition period, with both MRT and XProtect Remediator active on Macs running Catalina and later, what runs when?
macOS Monterey is the first version with support for lightweight virtualisation on Apple silicon. Here are its greatest limitations, which make it look more like a dress rehearsal.
All about memory: different types, Unified Memory, Mach zones and the kernel, and how to manage system memory problems.
I was sat in front of my desktop ‘controller’, and the pointer and keyboard were stuck on a Mac which had just shut down. What to do next?
Apple has just pushed an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing […]
How many macOS guests can lightweight virtualisation run at a time, and can it nest them, running a macOS guest in a macOS VM?
You preview a major Rich Text document, which QuickLook shows as completely empty. Has something terrible happened, or is it just a four year-old bug?
This new version of Viable uses HiDPI in Displays to create a crisp scalable virtual display as good as you’ll get from a Retina display. Here’s how.
Although Monterey supports lightweight virtualisation of macOS guests, it has some significant limitations, and doesn’t support GUI Linux. Full details are here.
The Eclectic Light Company 