Logging in with my Apple ID anywhere in the system (feedback assistant, Xcode, iCloud, etc.) fails when running under virtualization. Is this a known 'issue'? (networking in general is working fine)

I m trying to identify if my launched process is running on a local mac machine(desktop/laptop) or a virtual macOS X instance like AWS EC2, Azure, MacStadium etc. I have followed this link which searched for its limited providers in the output, but I m not bound to any limited providers and looking for a general solution which is applicable to all the providers. Is there some hardware/network/virtualization-related information that can be used to identify if the process is launched on a virtual MacOS instance? OR is there some system Information that I can use to be sure that my process is running on a local machine?

Hi everyone! I'm developing a system where an application running in a VM communicates with the host operating system's components using vsock sockets (VZVirtioSocketDevice in Virtualization.framework). Both systems are running macOS. There may be multiple guests, and the existing implementation for other OSes relies on VM's CID to differentiate them. In macOS, getting the CID from inside the guest VM is straightforward—it is returned by IOCTL_VM_SOCKETS_GET_LOCAL_CID. However, in macOS the regular vsock API is not available on the host side, replaced by Virtualization.framework. I could not find anything in the Virtualization.framework's documentation that could be used to query (or set?) the CID for the specific virtual machine instance (which is certainly possible on other platforms utilizing Virtio drivers, e.g. Linux/QEMU). Am I overlooking something?

I can see that a MacOS VM guest running on top of an Apple Silicon MacOS host has GPU acceleration - indicating GPU sharing capabilities for the hardware. Is there also a way to have GPU acceleration in Linux guests (with Vulkan/Mesa drivers)?

I am trying to play with the sample code that you provided to run the fedora distribution. However, when I compiled it with swift terminal, I get the following error. error: 'VZVirtualMachineConfiguration' is only available in macOS 11.0 or newer How can I instruct swift to fetch the proper framework? PS: I am running all from my terminal, I am not an IDE user

Following the presentation from 2022 https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10002/ that show how to create a MacOs virtual machine, I was wondering if there was a way to share the clipboard between the host and the VM create?

Description When starting the iOS simulators on macOS-15 intel image, the following assertion happens: The same issue not showing for macOS 15-arm64 image. Here is the issue details: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/10925 raised by multiple users. AVPIdentity: AppleVirtualPlatformHostKey.mm:234: Assert: platformExpert, value: 0 AVPIdentity: AppleVirtualPlatformHostKey.mm:234: Failed to get AppleVirtualPlatformARMPE service. The Simulators worked fine the day before the above issue was posted. What changed? Did something update?

Hi, I'm new to the forum, trying to learn Swift by doing a small CLI application that helps running Linux VMs on Apples Virtualization Framework. I've posted this question almost verbatim from the forums on swift.org, and was kindly directed here. My intention is to create VMs with ISO files, but enable output only via serial console, without a virtual graphics card. I know this might not be feasible, but it was the idea I had and I wanted to see if it is doable. So far I have managed to boot an Alpine Linux via kernel and ramdisk and the VZLinuxBootLoader. One crucial step is to provide VZLinuxBootLoader.commandLine to tell the kernel to activate output on the virtual console port, like console=hvc0. But booting an ISO with VZLinuxBootLoader is not possible if I'm not mistaken and the other option is VZEFIBootLoader, which doesn't support kernel parameters. Now, I'd like to try and mix both boot loaders by subclassing VZLinuxBootLoader and implementing all that is required to boot an ISO file. But if I look at the implementation these two classes are relatively sparse: @available(macOS 11.0, *) open class VZLinuxBootLoader : VZBootLoader { public init(kernelURL: URL) open var kernelURL: URL open var commandLine: String open var initialRamdiskURL: URL? } and @available(macOS 13.0, *) open class VZEFIBootLoader : VZBootLoader { public init() open var variableStore: VZEFIVariableStore? } I've cut out comments to keep it brief. I expected to find some implementation details for what makes these classes distinct from each other (as they both inherit VZBootLoader), hoping to be able to copy/paste a few methods here and there and try my luck passing some kernel args into the ISOs kernel. Is something similar possible? Am I in the right spot? I'd really appreciate some feedback and maybe some pointers to the right direction. Maybe someone can also give me some details or links to documentation why the two classes contain practically no implementation code? Thanks in advance, and have a great day.

Hello! I am currently experiencing a problem similar to what was reported here: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/767673 The account information is most certainly not the problem, but I am still getting the error: There was a failure decoding response: (HTTP 401, 60 bytes) The data couldn't be read because it isn't in the correct format Is the mentioned problem still not resolved? If it is not, could you please provide an estimated date for a fix? Are there any workarounds for this issue?

I want to use the com.apple.vm.networking entitlement which has a note: This entitlement is restricted to developers of virtualization software. To request this entitlement, contact your Apple representative. https://developer.apple.com/support/technical/ says: « Request entitlements using entitlement forms and ask for status updates in the resulting email thread. » but I haven't been able to find these "entitlement forms". Does anyone know what the right process is to request an entitlement?

Hello! I'm running MacOS 15.1.1 virtual machine on MacBook M2 Sequoia 15.1.1. While trying to add Apple account in Xcode 16.1 and it fails with error: Decoding Error There was a failure decoding response: (HTTP 401, 60 bytes) The data couldn't be read because it isn't in the correct format. Account information is valid, it's the same account as I used to login in host system. It seems like issue reported here: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/767673 Is there any chance to fix this and get it working?

Hi, been exploring macOS VM on both Parallels and UTM and they lack some "GPU/graphics" things vs native MacOS which could be useful on some situations (testing some non trusted graphics apps on a Mac VM) so providing similar usefulness as Windows Sandbox.. Current limitations: 1)In MacOS VM night mode doesn't work.. 2)HDR support isn't exposed even when enabling HDR on host 3)missing GPTK support for the Paravirtual GPU (Paravitual GPU supports Metal but isn't enough for GPTK to work which complains about unsupported GPU).. 4)OpenCL is supported but only the CPU device.. so expose GPU device in addition to current CPU only device.. 5)OpenGL only supports the software renderer.. I assume OpenGL driver on Apple M1-4 GPUs being Metal based, and being Metal supported no reason for software renderer only thanks..

I am using Mac Mini M2 with Sequoia 15.1 OS with Virtual Machine (Virtualization.Framework) with same OS. (almost same as here: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/767673) When adding my account in Xcode there is error with: Decoding Error. There was a failure decoding response: (HTTP 401, 60 bytes) The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format. Please fix that I can't see information like teams and so on

I'm curious if there is a way to add a programmatically controlled keyboard and pointing device to a virtual machine created using Virtualization.framework (for the purposes of sandboxed automation). All of the types I've found in that framework have very little in the way of configurability and seem to be uniquely intended for use with a VZVirtualMachineView. On the other hand, Hypervisor.framework seems extremely low-level so I'm wondering if there is something in between the two I can use to achieve this.

Hi, REQUEST 1: seems Microsoft is ahead of Apple in X86 ARM emulation support at least in features supported.. see: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/06/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27744-canary-channel/ x64 emulated applications through Prism will now have support for additional extensions to the x86 instruction set architecture. These extensions include AVX and AVX2, as well as BMI, FMA, F16C BMI1/2 and F16C aren't yet supported by Rosetta.. would be useful for games like Alan Wake 2.. so asking for Rosetta equaling features to Prism emulator.. REQUEST 2: there is no way to currently enable AVX1/2 on Rosetta Linux.. on macOS using export ROSETTA_ADVERTISE_AVX=1 does the trick.. but not on Linux VM's.. tested setting this via: /bin/launchctl setenv ROSETTA_ADVERTISE_AVX 1 on Mac before VM launch and inside Linux VM but AVX2 isn't exposed..

Dear Support Team, I constantly get a 401 unauthorised error, when I try to add my Developer account in Xcode while running a virutalised macOS using https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization. So I can't use signing, entitlements, etc when building within a virutalised macOS. The error shown is below: There was a failure decoding response: (HTTP 401, 60 bytes) The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format. I've found probably the same issue here https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/759877 Unfortunately, I can't find any updates. Are you aware of this problem? Are there any planned fixes in upcoming macOS updates? 15.0 (24A335) Version 16.1 (16B40) Apple M1 Pro, 16 GB Ram Best regards, Evgenii

I'm working with a MacMini M1 running Sequoia 15.1 OS, and I've configured a Virtual Machine on this device using the Virtualization.Framework to operate with the same OS version. While I can sign into my account through System Settings without any problems, I encounter difficulties when trying to add my account to Xcode 16.2. Initially, the login appears to succeed, but Xcode quickly presents a "Decoding Error": There was an issue decoding the response: (HTTP 401, 60 bytes) The data couldn’t be read because it is not in the correct format. As a result, I'm unable to access any account details or team information. I found a similar issue but I don't think it was resolved, even if it's marked as such: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/767673 Is there an existing workaround?

Hi, please see detailed findings on: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/discussions/6799 basically apps that runned via Rosetta Linux now fail in kernels>=6.11 like the included in Ubuntu 24.10 with: /media/rosetta/rosetta hello assertion failed [hash_table != nullptr]: Failed to find vdso DT_HASH (Vdso.cpp:78 get_vdso_dynamic_data) Trace/breakpoint trap the issue seems to be due to this commit. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/48f6430505c0b0498ee9020ce3cf9558b1caaaeb

Hello! I am wondering about the status of Nested Hyper-V Support for VM's? This is specifically regarding this issue with Parallels Desktop, which claims the issue is on Apple's side: Parallels Article: https://kb.parallels.com/en/116239 Within the Article, the no longer accessible previous Apple discussion post for this issue (at least I cannot access it): https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255546412 Is this something that will be fixed and supported soon? Thank you! (If this should be posted somewhere else please just let me know where!)

Hi, It seems that on M4 devices any virtual machine with macOS version older than 13.4 fail to boot, they stuck with a black screen. This is regardless of the virtualization software used (UTM, VirtualBuddy, Viable, etc...). After talking to many people everyone experiences the same. At least for me, this is a massive limitation of the platform, I really hope this is a bug which can be fixed. Thanks, Csaba

The VM gets a NAT IP just fine, but it doesn't have access through the proxy so I'm guessing 15.x macOS setup has a bug where it can't break out of a loop trying to phone home back to macOS. FBID: FB15689777 This is not an issue for 14.x VMs. It's also seen across different Virtualization tools.

We're creating macOS VMs on both 15.x and 14.x hosts and only the 14.x created VMs can run on both 15 and 14 hosts. If we create the VMs on 15.x, something is done by Virtualization that prevents it from running on 14.x. We've tried digging in and don't see anything that our code is doing that's special. What is Apple doing to the VMs created on 15.x hosts that's special here?