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really naive question: why not run Parallels since it now uses the native macOS hypervisor.framework, and then Linux / Haiku / FreeBSD / whatever? i thought o
by jjtheblunt 5y ago
really naive question:
why not run Parallels since it now uses the native macOS hypervisor.framework, and then Linux / Haiku / FreeBSD / whatever?
i thought of that as it somewhat outsources device driver digressions.
- horsawlarway 5y agoBecause then you still don't own the hardware - Apple does. Support can be pulled out from underneath you at any point and you're limited to the exposed hardware interfaces. Throw on top that (at least for me) I have zero desire to maintain a macOS machine.
- marcan_42 5y agoBecause virtual hardware will never work as well as real hardware. You're layering one OS on top of another; that's not free. No GPU acceleration, etc. (Plus, we actually support the M1's vGIC which Hypervisor.framework does not yet, so VMs running on Linux should perform better than VMs running on macOS! Yes, we beat Apple at supporting some parts of the M1 already.)