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Caches, buffers and swap

They’re everywhere: whatever you do, something somewhere will cache it. Later that can cause puzzling problems, but makes our Macs faster as a result.

February 4, 2023 Macs, Technology

Lightweight VMs are sparse files, and how to keep them compact

Virtual Machines for lightweight virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs rely on sparse files. Here are tips to ensure they stay small and don’t explode to full size.

January 5, 2023 Macs, Technology

How much free space does Ventura need to update?

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It’s a fair and simple question: how much free space is needed to update Ventura from 13.0 to 13.1? Is it 2.53, 12.97, 13.22, 13.56 or 14 GB?

December 23, 2022 Macs, Technology

Building and using a macOS 13.1 VM on Apple silicon

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Step-by-step guide to installing, configuring and using a Ventura 13.1 virtual machine on an Apple silicon Mac.

December 15, 2022 Macs, Technology

Liviable now shares folders in Linux VMs, and should support Rosetta 2

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Now feature-complete with support for shared folders with the host Mac, and everything is in place for Rosetta 2 translation of x86_64 binaries within the VM.

December 9, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Viable now supports shared folders, iCloud and more in beta 5

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Now fully supports shared folders, on Ventura hosts running Ventura in a VM. This gives access to faster storage, and to iCloud Drive as well.

December 6, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: The mobile virtual Mac

Just 4 cores and 16 GB of memory were used for the virtual machine to run Xcode and build apps successfully, but only for local testing.

December 4, 2022 Macs, Technology

Tracking swap space: is it wearing out your SSD?

In extreme cases, excessive use of swap space on an internal SSD could lead to its premature death, and the end of life for that Mac. How could you assess that?

December 2, 2022 Macs, Technology

Disk performance of lightweight macOS VMs on Apple silicon

Writing to the Data volume in a VM is dismally slow. Is using shared storage any quicker? What happens when you copy a VM to an external SSD, or to another Mac?

December 1, 2022 Macs, Technology

Can you game core allocation on Apple silicon?

Some threads are set to run in the background, and get allocated to the E cores. Could you run them in a VM, and effectively promote them to run on P cores instead?

November 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

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