Normally, the x.1 update fixes many of the bugs from the first release. But in Tahoe, a crop of fresh bugs have been included. Here are some of them, and how they have arisen.
virtualisation
VMs running 26.1 can’t access iCloud and related services, with no workaround. Finder Services below an item’s thumbnail don’t work.
If your virtualiser allows you to run 2 macOS VMs at the same time, and to give them different MAC addresses, it’s easy to migrate from one to the other as explained here.
macOS VMs can have iCloud, iCloud Drive, Messages, FaceTime, FileVault and many shared folders, but still can’t sign into Apple service like the App Store. But you can resize their VMs.
This new disk image format is claimed to be “efficient and general-purpose”. But is it? Is it as fast as sparse bundles or read-write (UDRW) disk images are?
Some time in the next week or two, Apple is expected to release its first public beta of […]
How to install a macOS 26 Tahoe virtual machine in macOS 15 Sequoia, with links to the software you’ll need.
How apps and processes set their priority, and on Apple silicon that determines which type of core they can be run on. What you can do to alter that.
In a VM hosted on an M4, upgrading 14.7.5 to 15.4.1 took an 8.7 GB download and worked. From 15.1 to 15.4.1 took over 15 GB and failed with a kernel panic.
Is it possible to update a VM running macOS Sequoia to version 15.4? Three attempts, three failures. And why are all those file creation dates wrong?
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