Do you want your VM to fully support an ISO keyboard? To drag and drop files with the host? Copy and paste too? Here’s the solution, crazy though it might seem.
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Making it quicker and simpler to run a macOS VM: with Vimy all you need do is double-click its bundle, and the VM runs using its previous settings.
A new document type including individual VM settings, support for recovering IPSW files, 14 page Help book and full set of Tooltips.
With the public beta of macOS 14 Sonoma due for imminent release, you may be tempted to try it out. Here are tips to help you avoid disaster.
What if you’ve forgotten your Mac’s password, or the secondhand Mac you bought expects you to enter one, or its owner has died?
Lightweight VMs currently only support ANSI and not ISO keyboard layouts. For English, this makes little difference, but in other languages it’s a critical shortcoming.
So how can a VM of 119.6 GB fit in a 100 GB container? How sparse files can make VMs and disk images smaller on disk.
Although these VMs are fast and even support Rosetta 2, they do have significant disadvantages, as detailed here.
Four new and improved features for Monterey and Ventura hosts, and two even better ones for Sonoma, including autosizing of the virtual display.
There’s a great more to come in Sonoma: two major changes in virtualisation, iCloud, privacy, accessibility and more.
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