Ask HN: What's the nicest desktop virtualisation software for macOS?

Posted by tony_goobret on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:47PM
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I run a lot of Linux software (e.g. emacs) on macOS by ssh-ing into a Linux virtual machine. I share a folder with the virtual machine to make everything more seamless.

I'm currently using Parallels to achieve this and it works pretty well. Does anyone have a preference for some other virtualisation software (e.g. VMWare Fusion) over this? I am using a macOS laptop so battery life is something I should consider too.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the nicest desktop virtualisation software... by throwaway888abc on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @06:02PM (#23252474)

Have look at xhyve https://github.com/machyve/xhyve Was pretty performant for me compared to other tools.

*Not on Mac anymore, switched to Linux few years back.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the nicest desktop virtualisation software... by tony_goobret on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @06:15PM (#23252610)

Cool, thank you!! I've not heard of this before and it looks pretty interesting (also because it doesn't require kernel extensions)

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