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Addresses an issue starting virtual machines running a forthcoming version of Mac OS X Lion. [36] 4.1.0 November 17, 2011 Added support for Lion's full screen mode, improved performance, and reintroduced the ability to turn on virtual machines automatically when VMware Fusion is opened. [37] 4.1.1 November 23, 2011
Preliminary Mac OS X support (beta stage) was added with VirtualBox 1.4, full support with 1.6. Support for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and earlier was removed with VirtualBox 3.1. [83] [84] Support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) was removed with VirtualBox 4.2. [85] [86] Support for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion) was removed with ...
While in beta, Parallels Server for Mac did not allow running Mac OS X Server in a virtual machine; however, Apple relaxed its licensing restrictions before Parallels Server for Mac's public release to allow running Mac OS X Leopard Server in a virtual machine as long as that virtual machine is running on Apple hardware. [51]
Platform virtualization software, specifically emulators and hypervisors, are software packages that emulate the whole physical computer machine, often providing multiple virtual machines on one physical platform. The table below compares basic information about platform virtualization hypervisors.
In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and provide the functionality of a physical computer. Their implementations may involve specialized hardware, software, or a combination of the two.
A hypervisor, also known as a virtual machine monitor (VMM) or virtualizer, is a type of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. A computer on which a hypervisor runs one or more virtual machines is called a host machine , and each virtual machine is called a guest machine .
The words host and guest are used to distinguish the software that runs on the physical machine from the software that runs on the virtual machine. The software or firmware that creates a virtual machine on the host hardware is called a hypervisor or virtual machine monitor. [2] Hardware virtualization is not the same as hardware emulation ...
macOS "Monterey" running on a virtual machine, showing the Main Page of the English Wikipedia Some new features of macOS Monterey, such as a 3D globe of Earth in Maps and text-to-speech in additional languages, work only on Apple silicon processors.