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How’s macOS virtualization performance these days? Had to pony up for a Parallels Desktop license as QEMU was 2-3x slower and just wasn’t up to snuff for daily

How’s macOS virtualization performance these days? Had to pony up for a Parallels Desktop license as QEMU was 2-3x slower and just wasn’t up to snuff for daily driving on my dev machine.

cpach 4y ago
From my toying around with it it seems quite good. But I haven’t done any stress-testing/benchmarking. NB: Important to use the HVF accelerator! Otherwise it will surely be slow. See https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/HVF https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/HVF
- anderspitman 4y ago
  I'd be very interested to hear experiences from people working with QEMU+HVF. I only have Linux/Windows devices to test on.
  - cpach 4y ago
    Feel free to shoot me an email.
- rubyist5eva 4y ago
  Any idea if this is enabled by default (or how to check/enable it manually) on UTM.app? I have the "Use Hypervisor" option enabled on the VM but it's dreadfully slow even with just a headless linux server.
  - cpach 4y ago
    Strange. I would guess that it’s enabled by default. You might want to submit a new discussion on their GitHub project: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/discussions https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/discussions The devs are very active there.
    - anderspitman 4y ago
      If you end up opening an issue please link it here. I'm interested in following this.