That’s particularly useful for those who need to run macOS at reduced security, perhaps to load third-party extensions or to disable SIP. However, I have further work to do to assess this fully, and consider how that can be improved.Īdditional support in clipboard sharing and full gestural use of Magic Trackpads should also be available now, as is the ability to start up a macOS VM in Recovery mode. One quirk that I’ve noticed is that the default ‘home folder’ for shares in Ventura appears to be the top level inside the VM bundle, which isn’t exactly convenient. Although I haven’t tested it yet in Linux, it should also be possible to mount a shared folder within a Linux VM running on a Ventura host.
However, there’s still no virtiofs support in Monterey guests, so for macOS VMs this only works when both host and guest are running Ventura. With the addition of support for the virtiofs file system in macOS 13.0, shared folders are now available, making the exchange of files far easier than using file sharing in Monterey. There are several distros that work well with that, including Rocky and Fedora. It requires Ventura, is currently still a beta-release, and doesn’t yet support the use of Rosetta 2 to translate x86 code within Linux, a valuable feature which turns out to be quite demanding to set up. If you’d like to try that out, my own free virtualiser Liviable is available from here.
You’re most likely to have success with one provided as an ISO image containing a bootable installer, as those can be installed directly by the macOS API.
Provided that you choose a suitable ARM (not Intel x86) distro, this works really well. The major addition for Ventura is the support of GUI Linux as a guest operating system. This article explains what has changed, and what hasn’t. Lightweight virtualisation of macOS and Linux was introduced on Apple silicon Macs in Monterey, although some of its most appealing features have only just become generally available with the release of Ventura.
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