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VirtualBuddy Feature Checklist Tips and Tricks Taking Advantage of
APFS Screen Resolution Building

README.md

 VirtualBuddy

VirtualBuddy can virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon, with
the goal of offering features that are useful to developers who need
to test their apps on multiple versions of macOS, especially betas.

Requires macOS 12.3 and an Apple Silicon Mac

[?][?] WARNING: This project is experimental. Things might break or not
work as expected.

Download from GitHub Releases

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 Feature Checklist

  * [*] Ability to boot any version of macOS 12 or macOS 13,
    including betas
  * [*] Built-in installation wizard
      + [*] Select from a collection of restore images available on
        Apple's servers
      + [*] Install the latest stable version of macOS
      + [*] Local restore image IPSW file
      + [*] Custom restore image URL
  * [*] Boot into recovery mode (in order to disable SIP, for
    example)
  * [*] Networking and file sharing support
  * [*] Clipboard sharing (without the need to be running macOS
    Ventura) (experimental 1)
  * [ ] Edit NVRAM variables
  * [ ] Customize virtual machine hardware configuration

1 To enable clipboard sharing, build the VirtualBuddyGuest scheme,
then copy the VirtualBuddyGuest app to the virtual machine (through
file sharing, for example) and run it. This will keep the clipboard
in sync between the guest and host machines. The feature is
experimental, so it might be buggy and it's definitely not secure.

 Tips and Tricks

 Taking Advantage of APFS

Sometimes when trying things out in the OS installed in one of the
virtual machines, things might break, requiring a full install of the
guest operating system again, which is a pain.

Thanks to APFS cloning though, you can just duplicate a virtual
machine within your library folder (using Command + D in Finder), and
the copy will take almost no additional disk space. This way you can
have a "clean" copy of your VM, do whatever you want with a duplicate
of it, and then throw the copy away and re-duplicate the clean
version if things break.

 Screen Resolution

VirtualBuddy sets up its virtual machines to have the same screen
resolution as the host's main screen. This is great if you want to
use the VM in full screen and take advantage of the entire resolution
of your Mac's display.

The default mode the VM OS selects for the display uses the native
resolution that's available to it though, which can make things look
really small. In order to address this, go into System Preferences >
Displays within the guest operating system and choose a scaled
resolution.

 Building

Xcode 14 is recommended.

  * Edit Main.xcconfig and set the VB_BUNDLE_ID_PREFIX variable to
    something unique like com.yourname., then select a team under
    Signing & Capabilities.
      + You may optionally run with the "Sign to run locally" option
        to skip this step
  * Build the VirtualBuddy scheme

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