https://eclecticlight.co/2022/12/28/macos-virtualisation-refactored-and-sandboxed-in-viable-updates/ Skip to content [eclecticlight] The Eclectic Light Company Macs, painting, and more Main navigation Menu * Downloads * M1 & M2 Macs * Mac Problems * Mac articles * Art * Macs * Painting hoakley December 28, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates macOS virtualisation refactored and sandboxed in Viable updates Christmas Day was ideal for the refactoring I wanted to do in my free macOS lightweight virtualisation app Viable. As a result, I have a new version, still a beta-release but hopefully edging ever closer to full release quality. I also have a sandboxed and locked-down version dubbed ViableS. Refactoring should make it easier for Viable to handle errors more gracefully, and enables the app to close its VM window when a guest macOS has shut down. I've been working on further improvements to its handling of bundles and UTIs, have augmented the information given in the main window about VMs, and added a checkbox to control shared folders. If you don't need your VM to be run in a sandbox, but want to isolate it from the host file system, this should be ideal. Several of you asked for a sandboxed version of Viable, so you can keep your VMs completely isolated from the host. ViableS uses the same code as Viable, but is sandboxed, has shared folder code removed, and removes code supporting the clipboard too (even though that currently doesn't appear functional). It retains NAT-based networking and Viable's other Virtio and macOS devices. Viable and ViableS VMs are identical, enabling you to build your VM with the convenience of shared folders to move apps and tools into it, then shut it down, and start it up in ViableS for you to undertake your research in isolation from the host. In case you think that the two apps can be used together to run more than two macOS VMs at the same time, I'm afraid that macOS remains one step ahead of you, and enforces Apple's licence limit across virtualising apps. viable1072 Viable beta 7 (1.0.7) is now available from here: viable1b7 from Downloads above, and from its Product Page. The locked-down ViableS beta 7 (1.0.7) is now available from here: viables1b7 from Downloads above, and from its Product Page. Please let me know if there are any further features you want added, or other changes, and of any problems you encounter, so that I can continue progressing these to their first full release. Share this: * Twitter * Facebook * Reddit * Pinterest * Email * Print * Like this: Like Loading... Related Posted in Macs, Technology, Updates and tagged macOS 12, macOS 13, Monterey, research, sandbox, security, update, Ventura, Viable, virtualisation. Bookmark the permalink. 11Comments Add yours 1. 1 [e95ca5c0adb9] Maurizio on December 28, 2022 at 7:32 am Reply Thanks for the sandboxed version ! LikeLiked by 1 person + 2 [6986a746f627] hoakley on December 28, 2022 at 1:37 pm Reply It's my pleasure. I've been using it a lot recently, as you'll hear next week. Howard. LikeLike 2. 3 [6a0fc11ee3da] Alan B on December 28, 2022 at 10:18 am Reply Much appreciated updates. Hope you found time for some Christmas pud! LikeLiked by 1 person + 4 [6986a746f627] hoakley on December 28, 2022 at 1:39 pm Reply Thank you. No pud yet, but plenty of good eating. Howard. LikeLike 3. 5 [a19995dabd65] hstriepe on December 28, 2022 at 6:54 pm Reply I tried to install over an existing bundle no longer recognized and it failed to delete it despite my order to do so in the Install... dialog. It downloaded the IPSW. Where does it store that until used? LikeLiked by 1 person + 6 [6986a746f627] hoakley on December 28, 2022 at 6:58 pm Reply Please don't try installing over an existing bundle: that's a use I hadn't even considered anyone would try! When it makes the bundle, it neatly stores the IPSW inside it. It doesn't use it once the bundle has been installed, so you can remove it and store it elsewhere, or simply trash it. Howard. LikeLike o 7 [7423c5348fb7] hstriepe on December 28, 2022 at 7:56 pm Reply I gathered. Where does it store the IPSW temporarily downloaded? It must still be there, since it could not put it in the bundle. LikeLiked by 1 person # 8 [6986a746f627] hoakley on December 28, 2022 at 8:12 pm The completion handler for the download tries to copy the IPSW into the bundle. If it fails to do so, then the download is automatically deleted, I'm afraid. There's no way around that. Howard. LikeLike # 9 [6986a746f627] hoakley on December 28, 2022 at 8:16 pm Thinking about this: the only two options for dealing with this would be to completely replace the existing bundle (i.e. to delete the whole bundle before creating a new one), or simply to refuse as an error. Which would you prefer?! Howard. LikeLike # 10 [7423c5348fb7] hstriepe on December 28, 2022 at 10:01 pm Would it be normal behavior for the save dialog to delete (perhaps) after a Confirmation dialog. LikeLiked by 1 person # 11 [6986a746f627] hoakley on December 28, 2022 at 10:09 pm Yes, I think that's a given. However, knowing what's in that bundle I'd be inclined just to refuse to trash it. I put shared folder contents inside, and there's the IPSW if the user hasn't moved it. That's why it never occurred to me that anyone would try overwriting the bundle - most of mine are more than 100 GB of VM, IPSW and shared files. I keep them on a dedicated OWC Envoy Pro FX 4 TB SSD. I've been living a lot in VMs! Howard. 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