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Installed #macOS #Tahoe Beta 1 in #UTM VM and gave it the same boring look I always do:
- Solid "Stone" background
- Dark Mode
- Blue highlight color
- Wallpaper tinting in windows disabled
- Always show scroll bars
In Accessibility → Display:
- Reduce transparency
- Differentiate w/o color
- Show window title icons
- Show toolbar button shapes

No #LiquidGlass for me…

Window corners are a bit too round for my taste, but I kinda like that toolbar buttons areas have a distinct background color.

Another call for help to my #macos #utm bubble: Anyone here running emulated Windows guests in UTM on macOS Sequoia? I use them irregularly and have lost the ability to connect to the internet. I used to use bridged mode, and still get an IP address from my router, but can't ping, resolve or browse any website. What do I need to do to get the VM to have internet?

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@theDuesentrieb I asked for the highest-spec computer the company would buy me (which turned out to be an Apple MacBook M2). I then promptly installed a QEMU-based emulator and installed Debian Linux into the emulator. The emulated disk is fully encrypted. I allow the VM full use of all CPU cores and 100% of all memory and disk space.

If you do get a Apple computer, I highly recommend you buy UTM from the app store, it is by far the most cost-effective option, and works extremely well with Debian Aarch64. Once you install the qemu-guest-agent package onto Linux, the Linux screen resolution will automatically match the #MacBook, copy-paste works seamlessly between #Linux and #MacOS. Desktop environments like #Cinnamon, #Xfce, #Gnome, and #KDEPlasma all allow you to select #HiDPI scaling which allows Linux to take full advantage of the #Apple “retina” display (it looks beautiful). The one and only drawback is that #QEMU cannot use Apple’s hardware multimedia codecs, so it falls back to software codecs, and the CPU just can’t keep up with things like video conferencing, or often even ordinary 720p video playback. I use Mac OS for only multimedia applications and video conferencing. For everything else, I continue to use Linux.

I recommend the bridge networking adapter so you can have two-way network communications between Linux and MacOS, this allows for file transfer between Mac and Linux via rsync. The trade-off is that every time your Apple computer switches computers networks (e.g. between home and office), you must reset the networking services in Linux. If you choose the NAT network option Linux will always have network access directly via the MacOS interface, but you will not be able to easily transfer files between Mac and Linux.

The keyboard is the hardest thing to get used to, mostly that “super” and “alt” are swapped. Be sure to transpose those keys in the #UTM configuration. It is easy to configure the Apple keyboard to (for example) make caps-lock another control key.

UTMUTMSecurely run operating systems on your Mac

JIT isn't just for games! I just ran Arch Linux, with sound, on my iPhone! I used VoiceOver screen recognition to read the screen, then used espeak once I got that installed. I couldn't figure out how to enable Speakup, so I'll leave that for future me to tinker with. I'd be curious to know if any other blind people have used UTM, on the Mac maybe, and have some Windows VM's or a Windows install ISO that talks. I can probably only handle up to Windows 7 or so on this iPhone. But it would be cool to see if it's possible!

#linux#UTM#iPhone

The last two days were unproductive. I made the mistake of upgrading my #macOS version to #Sequoia and a bunch of things broke. Currently, if you use #UTM/#QEMU to run #Linux #virtual machines on your #Mac and set the #networking mode to #Bridged, then you will find the connection very unstable. With #ssh and other connections from your host or other machines on the host losing connectivity frequently.

In #UTM switching to shared network resolves the issue for Linux VMs