Running a macOS VM on Apple silicon has many advantages: it lets you run older macOS on newer models, is more secure, and convenient, except it can’t work with App Store apps.
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If you use macOS VMs on an Apple silicon Mac, folders shared with the host may vanish in 14.2 and later. Here’s why, which are affected, and how to work around the problem.
If you run macOS virtual machines (VMs) on Apple silicon Macs using lightweight virtualisation, you may wish to […]
Comparison with M1 variants, energy use with comparison between M3 Pro and Max, virtualisation, Game Mode, vector processing and matrix co-processing – all in summary.
Examines two special core allocation modes: for the virtual cores in a macOS VM, and in Sonoma’s new Game Mode.
These fix a bug when restoring a VM window that has been minimised to the Dock.
Apple claims that its macOS VMs can run Metal and deliver “great graphics performance”. How could you assess that, and are they really that good?
Code run in a lightweight Virtual Machine can’t take advantage of the Efficiency cores of the host Apple silicon Mac. How then does Sonoma handle its threads?
Once the virtualisation app has configured a VM to be run, it starts it, and stands back as the macOS Virtual Machine Service does all the hard work.
How to run apps on the host, access iCloud Drive, and get faster file write performance in a macOS VM. And why Spotlight is limited, and the Force Quit dialog a bit odd.
