This is completely legit we are installing Mac OS X Server directly from a factory-sealed Apple DVD onto a virtual machine running only on genuine Apple hardware. Important thing to note: we are NOT showing off a “hackintosh,” using a modified version of the Mac OS X kernel. We will be demonstrating this achievement with our “Mac OS X Server in a Virtual Machine” Technology Preview, at our booth at the Macworld Expo, and with the group of screenshots below. Today, we are pleased to say that VMware is able to virtualize Mac OS X Leopard Server on Apple hardware using VMware’s proven Mac virtualization engine. This is something our users have asked us for and we were interested in seeing as well. Windows users who really want Microsoft’s flagship OS on an M1-powered Mac can use Parallels’ eponymous desktop hypervisor, and Microsoft’s free Windows 10 Arm Insider Preview release, to do the job.As you can imagine, the VMware Fusion team was pretty excited when Apple modified their licensing to allow Mac OS X Leopard Server to run in a virtual machine on Apple hardware. It appears that Apple has not created a direct replacement for Boot Camp, the tool that installs Windows alongside macOS on Intel-powered Macs. VMware reveals critical hypervisor bugs found at Chinese white hat hacking comp.But can it run Avid? The Reg hands shiny new M1 MacBook to video production pro, who beats it with Blender, Handbrake, and.VMware is 'a few months away' from M1 release of Fusion macOS desktop hypervisor.India’s massive COVID-19 wave slows VMware desktop hypervisor development.( is the 'chosen by fair dice roll' comic) /jx2PRNaJroĪnother new piece of documentation for macOS 12 details a class called VZMacOSBootLoader.

But sharp-eyed observers have spotted some changes that will make Macs, including those powered by Apple’s own Arm-compatible silicon, more adept at running guest operating systems.Įvidence of Apple’s additions can be found here, in a brief mention of virtualization stating that macOS 12 supports the Virtio specification and can therefore create standard interfaces for many device types - including network, socket, serial port, storage, entropy, and memory-balloon devices.ĭeveloper Zhuowei Zhang spotted some of the new features, and perhaps even an XKCD Easter Egg.Īlso, cute XKCD reference at the end of the macOS 12 amework AVPBooter file. Desktop virtualization is not the kind of thing that gets a mention in Apple’s big product announcements, and today's effort that revealed macOS 12 - code-named Monterey - was no exception.

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