Is it mandatory to place appproxy-sytemextension app directly under /Applications folder

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richard_wang OP

Created Jul ’21

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Hi there,

It is found that I have to place my application.app using appproxy-systemextension directly under /Applications folder, so that it can load the systemextension properly by open /Application/application.app command.

If I place it under /Applications/company.app/bin/application.app, and launch it with command open /Applications/company.app/bin/application.app, it always fails with complain ossystemextensionerrordomain / 1

So the question is: Is it mandatory to have this appproxy-systemextension application directly under /Application folder?

Thanks in advance for the confirmation.

Regards Richard

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Systems Engineer OP

Apple

Jul ’21

Richard,

Is it mandatory to have this appproxy-systemextension application directly under /Application folder?

In rare cases, like when developing your System Extension, it is not required to run your container app from the /Applications directory. Now, this is ONLY in the specific scenario when you have developer mode enabled via systemextensionsctl. See more about this here.

For ANY OTHER case, it is recommended to run your container app that contains your System Extension from the /Applications directory. I personally do this even during development and do not even turn on developer mode.

Matt Eaton
DTS Engineering, CoreOS
meaton3@apple.com

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richard_wang OP

Jul ’21

Thanks a lot Matt for the. reply. That's clear.

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