VirtualBuddy for Mac
Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon.
Free
In English
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VirtualBuddy overview
VirtualBuddy can virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon, with the goal of offering features that are useful to developers who need to test their apps on multiple versions of macOS, especially betas.
What’s new in version 1.5
- Adds support for virtual machine state restoration. State restoration requires the host to be running macOS 14 or later and a macOS guest. Once a state has been saved, I recommend always starting up from a saved state, otherwise you may encounter VM corruption (this is a limitation of Apple's Virtualization API).
- There's a new "Library" item in the "Window" menu to open the library window
- Editing the name of a new managed disk image now works as expected
- Linux guests now use cached mode for block storage devices, addressing a corruption issue that could occur when doing heavy I/O operations (by @jamestut in #332)
- Improved virtual machine screenshot performance and reliability
- Addresses a bug that prevented spaces from being inserted into the name of Virtual Machine when editing in the library window
- Addresses an issue where rapidly renaming the same virtual machine multiple times could cause the name displayed in the library to no longer match the name that's on the filesystem
- Fixed some memory leaks
VirtualBuddy for Mac
Free
In English
Version 1.5
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Jun 27 2024
Version: 1.5
I have had very good results with this product. The key is you should use Sonoma or later, even though product supports Monterey and Ventura. Apple has improved the hypervisor framework from macos 12 on, you will get best performance and functionality with Sonoma. execution speed of the guest is almost native. Use standard file sharing, rather than drag / drop, not huge deal. I've also had very good results with Viable. Both products are ONLY for virtualizing macOS guests, ARM only. No Windows.
