How secure and private can you make a macOS VM on Apple silicon? Follow these steps to create your own private Mac within macOS.
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If you are beta-testing macOS 15 Sequoia in a lightweight virtual machine on an Apple silicon Mac, beware […]
It has taken 2 years for virtualisation on Apple silicon to support Apple ID with iCloud and its features. But it still doesn’t let you run almost all App Store apps.
How to create and configure a Sequoia beta to run in a virtual machine on an Apple silicon Mac, either in Sequoia or Sonoma, and a surprise in its features.
What you need, what the risks are, and how to ensure you don’t have problems if things go wrong. Includes coverage of VMs and more.
All about Mac firmware, from PowerPC Open Firmware to Apple silicon’s LLB and iBoot, and what the rules are for updating firmware.
This weekend we’re in the Lake District. Wouldn’t it have been simpler if, rather than preparing a notebook, all I needed was a VM with all my apps pre-installed and ready to go?
Sequoia’s macOS VMs and Apple ID, USB storage and other devices, number of concurrent VMs, nested virtualisation, and how to run Sequoia beta in a VM on Sonoma.
It’s over 10 years since Apple stopped providing documentation such as programming guides. Some of the consequences on concurrency, virtualisation, AI and SwiftUI are considered here.
T1 and T2 chips in Intel Macs, integral in M-series chips, used in Sequoia’s virtual machines at last, and an essential feature in Private Cloud Compute.
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