Virtualizing on Apple Siliconīecause Apple Silicon hardware has such great performance at a low thermal cost, and Apple hardware is the only legal platform on which (as a user) to run macOS, and macOS is the only officially-supported platform for building and releasing apps for Apple hardware platforms, I’m very interested in being able to continue to virtualize macOS as we transition away from Intel-based Apple hardware. What’s interesting here is that (I think) it’s the first time we see native Apple APIs for macOS guest virtual machines. VZVirtioSoundDeviceOutputStreamConfiguration ![]() VZVirtioSoundDeviceInputStreamConfiguration VZUSBScreenCoordinatePointingDeviceConfiguration In particular, notice the VZMac* APIs: VZAudioDeviceConfiguration Here’s the new APIs below (at time of writing, where Monterey’s latest version is beta 10). When Apple released the first macOS 12 Monterey betas in June 2021, some interesting new APIs were added to the Virtualization framework developer docs. ![]() ![]() Check out the follow-up article from June 2022 here. ![]() Note: Since this article was originally published, there have been exciting new developments.
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