Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs

Re:Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs by nick_ on Saturday February 12, 2022 @06:57PM (#30317630)

I tried macOS in Parallels and it was _awful_. Significantly worse than Windows 11 ARM and Ubuntu ARM. It seemed like it had zero acceleration. Very poor experience. I just used the wizard to install it so I didn't do anything weird.

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Re:Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs by sjoruk on Saturday February 12, 2022 @08:02PM (#30318034)

Are you using Big Sur or newer for the host and guest? If so you should have hardware accelerated graphics which made a huge difference over Catalina.

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Re:Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs by thevagrant on Saturday February 12, 2022 @07:34PM (#30317844)

I haven't run anything heavy and used it to isolate some work stuff.

I thought Parallels would be using the MacOS virtualization framework? If not, it will be interesting to compare how other systems perform.

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Re:Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs by sjoruk on Saturday February 12, 2022 @07:56PM (#30317991)

I use Parallels often. You can choose to use either their own hypervisor or Apple’s. I haven’t compared them though, Apple’s is working fine for me.

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Re:Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs by saagarjha on Saturday February 12, 2022 @08:13PM (#30318107)

From what I hear, Parallels has out approximately zero effort into their Virtualization implementation, to the point where a toy I whipped up over the weekend has better usability than it does.

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Re:Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs by ForOldHack on Saturday February 12, 2022 @07:41PM (#30317903)

I tried too, and the word was "abysmal."

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