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Re: Native virtualization for macOS

#11

Post by izik_e2 »

rvanmil wrote: post #10
aroman wrote: post #2

Awesome! Was hoping something like this would come along — has anyone used this and can speak to their experience with it? In particular, what about graphics performance?

I bought the Veertu 2016 Business edition in april this year, with the intention of replacing VMWare Fusion, but it didn't work out for me. At the time the performance was great and it worked properly for the most part. Though some critical features were missing, such as copy/pasting files from and to the VM. Graphics performance was nowhere near VMWare performance the last time I used it. Reading their blog, "Listen…

The product is all but canceled, it is in active development - adding features users asks for.

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

#13

Post by mrmondo »

I've tried this as I was really excited after hearing about fusions discontinuation and how incredibly poorly performing virtualbox IO and network is.

I found it to be even slower than virtualbox which I have no idea how this is possible. Tested on a late 2015 5k iMac top specced and a late 2015 MacBook top specced both running OSX 10.11 at the time.

I will re-test the latest version with MacOS 10.12.

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

#14

Post by rvanmil »

izik_e2 wrote: post #11
rvanmil wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bought the Veertu 2016 Business edition in april this year, with the intention of replacing VMWare Fusion, but it didn't work out for me. At the time the performance was great and it worked properly for the most part. Though some critical features were missing, such as copy/pasting files from and to the VM. Graphics performance was nowhere near VMWare performance the last time I used it. Reading their blog, "Listen…

The product is all but canceled, it is in active development - adding features users asks for.

I'll gladly stand corrected... but where do I find the product then?

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

#15

Post by izik_e2 »

rvanmil wrote: post #14
izik_e2 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The product is all but canceled, it is in active development - adding features users asks for.

I'll gladly stand corrected... but where do I find the product then?

www.veertu.com click on the download button in the top right

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

#16

Post by rvanmil »

izik_e2 wrote: post #15
rvanmil wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll gladly stand corrected... but where do I find the product then?

www.veertu.com click on the download button in the top right

That's the free version, not the business edition which I paid for in the app store.

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

#17

Post by izik_e2 »

rvanmil wrote: post #14
izik_e2 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The product is all but canceled, it is in active development - adding features users asks for.

I'll gladly stand corrected... but where do I find the product then?

For some reason I can't answer your latest question in the bottom thread, but that is the full version, including everything.

It is actively developed and it is now distribute in different channel to support bridge networking and usb.

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

#18

Post by csydas »

m_eiman wrote: post #12
raihansaputra wrote: post #9

I know gaming is not the main pull of this, but would this be better than parallels and fusion for gaming?

I don't think they have accelerated 3D graphics, so probably not. Unless you play 2D games, of course :)

yeah, they don't look to have support for the graphics drivers like parallels does, but for some older games that just need a lightweight Windows VM to run on, it'd be fine. If it gets more active development, I'm sure it can grow, but the idea seems to be using macOS's native hypervisor function instead.

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

#19

Post by mrweasel »

mrmondo wrote: post #13

I've tried this as I was really excited after hearing about fusions discontinuation and how incredibly poorly performing virtualbox IO and network is. I found it to be even slower than virtualbox which I have no idea how this is possible. Tested on a late 2015 5k iMac top specced and a late 2015 MacBook top specced both running OSX 10.11 at the time. I will re-test the latest version with MacOS 10.12.

VMware Fusion isn't discontinued. I might be wrong, but wasn't the last update in September? And you can still buy it from VMware.

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

#20

Post by davidcollantes »

mrmondo wrote: post #13

I've tried this as I was really excited after hearing about fusions discontinuation and how incredibly poorly performing virtualbox IO and network is. I found it to be even slower than virtualbox which I have no idea how this is possible. Tested on a late 2015 5k iMac top specced and a late 2015 MacBook top specced both running OSX 10.11 at the time. I will re-test the latest version with MacOS 10.12.

It is the same under macOS 10.12.1. I tried it (can't beat free!), and within a few days I was back on Fusion.
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