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    From Alan B@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 27 16:40:53 2022
    Anyone upgrading to Ventura on a ‘Silicon’ Mac can take advantage of Howard Oakley’s free lightweight VM tool to create ARM64 Linux VMs. It uses Apple’s built-in hypervisor software. I’ve created a Ubuntu 22.04 server VM and added a KDE Plasma desktop environment. I’ve noticed a few oddities so far, e.g. Some key mapping problems, magnifying glass needed when starting installation. HO is aware of these and other issues.

    <https://eclecticlight.co/2022/08/11/lightweight-virtualisation-of-gui-linux-on-ventura/>

    A bit of competition for Parallels, QEMU and UTM. VMware and (allegedly) VirtualBox are also developing M* compatible apps. There’re are probably other apps under development. Note that UTM includes a copy of and uses
    QEMU. HO has also developed an app called Viable to create macOS Monterey
    and Ventura VMs.

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    Cheers, Alan

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to Alan B on Fri Dec 9 17:39:17 2022
    On 2022-10-27, Alan B <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Anyone upgrading to Ventura on a ‘Silicon’ Mac can take advantage of Howard
    Oakley’s free lightweight VM tool to create ARM64 Linux VMs. It uses Apple’s built-in hypervisor software. I’ve created a Ubuntu 22.04 server VM
    and added a KDE Plasma desktop environment. I’ve noticed a few oddities so far, e.g. Some key mapping problems, magnifying glass needed when starting installation. HO is aware of these and other issues.

    <https://eclecticlight.co/2022/08/11/lightweight-virtualisation-of-gui-linux-on-ventura/>

    A bit of competition for Parallels, QEMU and UTM. VMware and (allegedly) VirtualBox are also developing M* compatible apps. There’re are probably other apps under development. Note that UTM includes a copy of and uses
    QEMU. HO has also developed an app called Viable to create macOS Monterey
    and Ventura VMs.

    b3 released. Now supports shared folders and limited Rosetta 2 support.
    I've got shared folders working but yet to try Rosetta on my Ubuntu 22.10
    VM.

    <https://eclecticlight.co/2022/12/09/liviable-now-shares-folders-in-linux-vms-and-should-support-rosetta-2/>

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    Cheers, Alan

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to Alan B on Sat Dec 10 07:38:17 2022
    Alan B <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On 2022-10-27, Alan B <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Anyone upgrading to Ventura on a ‘Silicon’ Mac can take advantage of Howard
    Oakley’s free lightweight VM tool to create ARM64 Linux VMs. It uses
    Apple’s built-in hypervisor software. I’ve created a Ubuntu 22.04 server VM
    and added a KDE Plasma desktop environment. I’ve noticed a few oddities so >> far, e.g. Some key mapping problems, magnifying glass needed when starting >> installation. HO is aware of these and other issues.

    <https://eclecticlight.co/2022/08/11/lightweight-virtualisation-of-gui-linux-on-ventura/>

    A bit of competition for Parallels, QEMU and UTM. VMware and (allegedly)
    VirtualBox are also developing M* compatible apps. There’re are probably >> other apps under development. Note that UTM includes a copy of and uses
    QEMU. HO has also developed an app called Viable to create macOS Monterey
    and Ventura VMs.

    b3 released. Now supports shared folders and limited Rosetta 2 support.
    I've got shared folders working but yet to try Rosetta on my Ubuntu 22.10
    VM.

    <https://eclecticlight.co/2022/12/09/liviable-now-shares-folders-in-linux-vms-and-should-support-rosetta-2/>

    Rather than issuing a set of commands on startup, it is of course possible
    to enable shared folders by putting an additional entry in /etc/fstab as
    you would with say a VMware VM. I’ve passed my findings to Howard Oakley.

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    Cheers, Alan

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