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Presumably they use it internally. IIRC there are drivers for VirtIO devices in modern MacOS, implying they use KVM/QEMU for something.

• smoldesu 4y ago
  It's also used when you load into the recovery partition, IIRC. It may be redundant nowadays, but it's a nice redundancy to have for sure.
  • ace2358 4y ago
    Makes sense to have that working if there are gpu hardware issues… which did happen for many years
• Eleison23 4y ago
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