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Native virtualization for macOS

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Re: Native virtualization for macOS

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Post by izik_e »

riobard wrote: post #49

This is very nice! HiDPI mode works perfectly for Windows 10 guest (unlike VirtualBox, which has weird graphic issues). Unfortunately macOS Hypervisor.Framework does not support USB devices ( https://veertu.com/knowledgebase/usb-support/ ), which makes Veertu useless to me, as the only reason I use Windows VM is to attach stupid USB tokens for certain banking use cases.

We now support usb, try it. Note that we have a bug that make it work only with mass stirage device, but we will release fix soon.

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

#53

Post by dragonshed »

Well, I'm excited by the potential of having something better than Virtualbox available for free.

I tried converting a linux vm I frequently use via vagrant just now, and it seems to work well except for network bridging: You can't bridge over wifi. Kindof a deal-breaker.

The relevant page[1] explains it thus: "Due to features of wireless protocol, level 2 bridges don’t work over Wi-Fi, and so you can’t use wireless interface of your Mac to route bridge traffic to external network – only among VMs and host."

[1] https://veertu.com/knowledgebase/vagrant-setup-instructions/

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

#54

Post by oneplane »

dragonshed wrote: post #53

Well, I'm excited by the potential of having something better than Virtualbox available for free. I tried converting a linux vm I frequently use via vagrant just now, and it seems to work well except for network bridging: You can't bridge over wifi. Kindof a deal-breaker. The relevant page[1] explains it thus: "Due to features of wireless protocol, level 2 bridges don’t work over Wi-Fi, and so you can’t use wireless…

Makes sense, 802.11 isn't Ethernet.

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

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Post by klum »

nailer wrote: post #24
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.

Totally different results here. I use a Surface Book now but on my Mac (2013 MBA) Veertu destroyed VMware and VirtualBox for interactive latency. Ie, VirtualBox and VMware were slow to the point I'd consider them unusable (I'm latency sensitive, eg, I consider Eclipse to the be same and other people think it's fine). Veertu made me actually test in Edge again. Did you still have VMware or VirtualBox drivers installed…

I'm latency sensitive as well, and just wondering: have you found any virtualization solution on Windows which provides usable performance for Linux guests?

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

#56

Post by falcolas »

How is support for this going to be funded? Will there be a commercial license which will pop up later? Paid features? It would be great to have some information.

I'm always leery of adopting a technology which will be fundamental to my work environment when I don't know how long it will be supported, or if I will have to change my use of it due to licensing issues.

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

#57

Post by gaius »

falcolas wrote: post #56

How is support for this going to be funded? Will there be a commercial license which will pop up later? Paid features? It would be great to have some information. I'm always leery of adopting a technology which will be fundamental to my work environment when I don't know how long it will be supported, or if I will have to change my use of it due to licensing issues.

The version that can run only images from their library is free-as-in-beer. The version that you can create your own VMs with, is paid.

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

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Post by izik_e2 »

gaius wrote: post #57
falcolas wrote: post #56

How is support for this going to be funded? Will there be a commercial license which will pop up later? Paid features? It would be great to have some information. I'm always leery of adopting a technology which will be fundamental to my work environment when I don't know how long it will be supported, or if I will have to change my use of it due to licensing issues.

The version that can run only images from their library is free-as-in-beer. The version that you can create your own VMs with, is paid.

This version support everything that was in the paid version, so you get it all for free.

Re: Native virtualization for macOS

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Post by george4n »

oneplane wrote: post #54
dragonshed wrote: post #53

Well, I'm excited by the potential of having something better than Virtualbox available for free. I tried converting a linux vm I frequently use via vagrant just now, and it seems to work well except for network bridging: You can't bridge over wifi. Kindof a deal-breaker. The relevant page[1] explains it thus: "Due to features of wireless protocol, level 2 bridges don’t work over Wi-Fi, and so you can’t use wireless…

Makes sense, 802.11 isn't Ethernet.

So how is VirtualBox able to bridge over Wi-Fi?
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