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How to optimize vmware 13 for gaming on apple silicon? [closed]
Is there a way? I set the graphic memory to 8 GB and 6 core processors with 10 GB rams and it still run at less than 30fps on window 11 arm 64 with 3d acceleration on. If not any recommendation for ...
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Black Screen Issue Running Windows 10 VM on MacBook Air M2 using VirtualBox
I recently acquired a MacBook Air M2 and installed VirtualBox to run a Windows 10 virtual machine.
However, upon launching the VM, I encounter a persistent black screen. Despite the VM running, I'm ...
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Why does Virtual Box freeze on "Starting Windows" screen on macOS Catalina 10.15.7?
I have macOS Catalina 10.15 and I installed VirtualBox v7.0 to run Windows 7 x64 (and windows10 x64). When I boots it hangs at "Starting Windows" screen. Screenshot below.
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Share directory from Mac with qemu / UTM virtual machine
I'm looking for end-to-end instructions how to share a Mac directory with a virtual machine that's being run with qemu or UTM. I cannot find a p9 filesystem implementation on the Mac side, so that ...
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How to run windows server on macOS with apple silicon?
I'm trying to run Windows Server on macOS with Apple Silicon.
Parallels can't install any x86 versions(windows server don't have arm versions out in the wild, only for OEM) I tried installing it on ...
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VirtualBox Linux Guest Mac Host runs really slow
I have performance issues in VirtualBox, the quest operating system runs really slow and laggy.
The configuration:
Host: MBP 2019, 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9, 16 GB RAM, MacOS Sonoma 14.2
Guest: ...
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How to run a Mac OS VM on an Intel Mac?
I'm a developer and some of my users experience issues on older Mac OS versions.
I would like to test my app on an older version of Mac OS using my Intel Mac.
I think the only solution is using a ...
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How to pass command key usage to QEMU Guest? (As in using Command-Q corresponds to the guest seeing Meta-Q, not quitting QEMU.)
I'm trying to use a Linux VM on MacOS with QEMU but I'm having a problem: I need to change the config to set up hyprland all the way but hyprland looks for shortcuts involving the super (meta/command/...
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dnsmasq DHCP server on Mac OS - not working
I'm trying to set up a DHCP server using dnsmasq on Mac OS (Ventura) so that it can serve IP addresses to virtual machines that I am running.
I have included this line into my /opt/homebrew/etc/...
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Does rsync behave differently if it detects that a mount point is from a network instead of a local/external drive?
Note: I don't think I did a good job of explaining what I was looking for. The problem I'm running into is NOT which files rsync is selecting to mirror. The problem is that rsync is taking WAY ...
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Can not install Ubuntu Server v23.04 guest on macOS host machine in virtual box
I tried to set up Ubuntu Server v.23.04 guest machine for SSH remote access in my virtual environment using Virtual Box v. 7.0 hosted on macOS Monterey 12.6.5 . To my surprise I receive some errors.
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How to make a VirtualBox VM that shares harddrive with host safely?
I just want to make a Virtual Machine to run Minecraft without GPU hardware acceleration.
Is there a way to make a Virtual Machine that shares the same filesystem as my MacBook currently has? Even ...
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Can't use macOS Ventura VM with more than one CPU
I recently created a macOS VM (Ventura 13) with VirtualBox (Version 7.0.6 r155176 (Qt5.15.2)). I first launched it with one CPU, and it booted. The downside was that the VM was very slow and ...
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how to downgrade the vmware file
I am running the vmware version suitable for macOS high sierra.
But the file created to run the linux is in the higher version of the vmware software and this is not getting compatible.
How should I ...
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Stuck on UEFI interactive shell of a VirtualBox VM running on Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra 64-Bit
I need to use a VM for a project with Xcode. I tried using VirtualBox VM with the stated OS model, but keep getting this error and am unsure how to proceed. I've never attempted this before and have ...
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