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.
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Four new and improved features for Monterey and Ventura hosts, and two even better ones for Sonoma, including autosizing of the virtual display.
What’s the best option if you don’t have the luxury of running betas on a dedicated Mac? How to install and run them in a VM.
T2 and Apple silicon Macs always encrypt the Data volume in internal storage. So why bother with enabling FileVault? And can you do that on external bootable disks?
New version of ViableS runs in a sandbox, with no shared folders, and can now be isolated from networks. So how well does Ventura work without internet?
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.
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.
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?
Step-by-step guide to installing, configuring and using a Ventura 13.1 virtual machine on an Apple silicon Mac.
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.
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