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Re: Native Virtualization For macOS

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Post by LeoPanthera » Sat, Jul 30, 2016, 3:33 PM UTC

izik_e2 wrote: post #37

LeoPanthera wrote: post #8

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Yes, that's what I was referring to. It seems to be hardware specific. On some Macs it's fine, on others (particularly newer ones, it seems) its unusable.

It is interesting, are you using the latest version from the App Store?

Yes.

Re: Native Virtualization For macOS

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Post by ensignavenger » Sat, Jul 30, 2016, 7:52 PM UTC

DanielDent wrote: post #21

ensignavenger wrote: post #18

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A dispute with you credit card if you paid by card ought to do the trick. If that doesn't work, Small Claims Court works well in most US states- it may be a pain, but if more consumers would use it in ridiculous cases like this, companies would improve.

While I agree a credit card might theoretically offer recourse, in practice I think what would happen is I would end up locked out of my iTunes account and I would discover that all my past "purchases" would be better described as "donations".

I understand your pain! Sounds like someone might be looking into your refund, I hope it works out!

Re: Native Virtualization For macOS

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Post by smartbit » Sun, Jul 31, 2016, 4:08 PM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #2

Last time I tried Veertu it was crazy buggy. I emailed them a bunch of bug reports which, to their credit, they did acknowledge. It will be interesting to see if they're fixed. Edit: No, they're not. The Ubuntu image, on my iMac, just flickers its window horribly and is unusable. Edit 2: There are some improvements. The Debian image now boots! It boots into the installer, which is interesting. Doing a full GUI instal…

Have you tried "Retina HDPI support" in Advanced VM settings?

Re: Native Virtualization For macOS

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Post by acathrow » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 4:02 PM UTC

izik_e2 wrote: post #39

r3w wrote: post #38

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How do you get the source to the LGPL components?

As part of the process of open sourcing the core hypervisor we are updating the site with the lgpl library sources.

It's about time, Veertu has been using a lot of LGPL code without attribution or any visible attempts to comply with LGPL license requirements for the many components used. Hopefully you guys did a true clean room implementation of the GPL components of QEMU.

Re: Native Virtualization For macOS

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Post by bonzini » Wed, Aug 03, 2016, 9:01 AM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #14

NEDM64 wrote: post #12

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Doesn't use the native and fast hypervisor.

The native hypervisor doesn't support connecting USB devices to the VM, though.

That makes no sense. The native hypervisor only takes care of emulating the CPU. Everything else, including USB emulation and redirection, is done in userspace.

Re: Native Virtualization For macOS

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Post by seabrookmx » Sat, Aug 13, 2016, 4:22 AM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #40

coldtea wrote: post #20

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Web (and other) developers usually don't connect USB devices to the VM anyway, through.

I'm not sure why the downvotes. Do web developers using VMs for development connect USB devices to them? Does the majority even run something like vagrant linux image with a GUI and mouse?

I don't think the downvotes were warranted. That said, I will be devils advocate here. I tend to develop on multiple machines, some of them windows.. so I like having a consistent experience. Jetbrains tools on a Linux desktop (in a VM on each host) offer that. I then keep my working git repos on a USB stick and mount them into the VM.

There's ways to work around that though.. such as host the USB over SMB and then mount the share inside of the VM.. or use a cloud service of some kind.. but it's a bit more clunky.

USB passthrough seems like a basic feature of a hypervisor IMO.