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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by woadwarrior01 on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:37AM (#22254489)
Interestingly, the only other kext (besides the one for Karabiner) I see on my machine is for LittleSnitch, which is also from Objective-See.

Also, I was expecting to see a kext from VMWare, because I use VMWare Fusion, but there wasn't one.

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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by November-Echo on Thursday February 06, 2020 @05:19AM (#22254912)
Little Snitch is made by Objective Development Software GmbH [1] and not objective-see [2].

[1] https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html [2] https://objective-see.com/products/kextviewr.html

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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by mintplant on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:34AM (#22254740)
Little Snitch is actually from Objective Development. Objective-See does make a firewall application called Lulu, however.
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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by sascha_sl on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:56AM (#22254577)
Huh, I have:

com.vmware.kext.vmnet

com.vmware.kext.vmx86

com.vmware.kext.vmioplug.18.7.0

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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by woadwarrior01 on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:53AM (#22264004)
You're right. I've got the same. It looks like the VMWare kexts don't get loaded until you launch VMWare Fusion and they're unloaded when it exits.
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