How many macOS guests can lightweight virtualisation run at a time, and can it nest them, running a macOS guest in a macOS VM?
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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.
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Although Monterey supports lightweight virtualisation of macOS guests, it has some significant limitations, and doesn’t support GUI Linux. Full details are here.
Is virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs Type 1 or 2? How does it handle sensitive instructions, exceptions, CPU cores, and manage memory?
Snaps a VM window to its display resolution, offers a fourth display size option, and more errors should be handled without the app crashing itself.
Code run in a guest macOS may perform differently to that run on the host, and will reduce energy efficiency and battery endurance/
Why would Apple invest several years of hardware and software engineering just to see what 3rd party developers might do with it?
With configurable CPU core count, memory size and display resolution, it can even run at least two VMs at once.
How lightweight virtualisation of macOS on Apple silicon Macs lays out its VM bundle, how its builds that in installation, and details of the VM log.
