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> Yes we can use VMs for this, but Mac laptops aren’t generally beefy machines The newest ones with M1/M1 Pro are actually pretty beefy, and even the Macbook A
by crooked-v 5y ago
> Yes we can use VMs for this, but Mac laptops aren’t generally beefy machines
The newest ones with M1/M1 Pro are actually pretty beefy, and even the Macbook Air has benchmarks that beat literally everything else in the Apple lineup except the iMac Pros and the new-model Mac Pros.
This doesn't help much with current equipment, but it should make future planning easier.
- smoldesu 5y agoWhat they really need is something powerful and open along the lines of QEMU/KVM. HyperKit is dead-last when it comes the virtualization race, and it's one of the technologies I'm rooting for Apple to scrap altogether. MacOS needs either a thinner hypervisor or a lower-level virtualization solution, either of which I see as equally unlikely from Apple.
- ubercow13 5y agoQEMU runs on macos already?
- smoldesu 5y agoThat's news to me!
- fastball 5y agoPretty happy with Parallels performance on my M1 Mac tbh.
- pram 5y agoThey added a framework specifically for Linux in Big Sur. Also QEMU runs on MacOS lol https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization