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Well, yes, that was the main thing, it was free to use, and it was easier to "convince" it to virtualize macOS on non-Apple hardware. Also I liked the fact that

Well, yes, that was the main thing, it was free to use, and it was easier to "convince" it to virtualize macOS on non-Apple hardware. Also I liked the fact that it was easy to run headless VMs (VBoxHeadless), and the "VBoxManage" command-line tool was pretty capable. Plus, the dual monitor functionality worked on my setup pretty well (Linux host and Windows guest). But anyway, today I have everything I need through KVM and virt-manager when I want to run Linux or Windows guests, on macOS I use UTM for home/manual use. On macOS VirtualBox was a no-go because VirtualBox is an x86 virtualizer, so they don't have plans to support arm64 anyway.

stephenr 3y ago
> On macOS VirtualBox was a no-go because VirtualBox is an x86 virtualizer, so they don't have plans to support arm64 anyway So apparently their long term goal[1] is to support Arm-on-Arm VMs, but they didn't even intend[2] to ship the x86-on-Arm version yet really, so don't hold your breath for Arm-on-Arm. 1: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=523070#p523070 https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=523070#p523070 2: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=537634#p537634 https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=537634#p537634