Authentication working on VM? ...sort of

Most of the time I find myself asking the question why something doesn't work when I had reasonable expectation that it would.

In this case I find my self asking why something worked when I had NO expectation that it would!

It is well known that Apple's virtual machine sample code does not support authentication with Apple services: iCloud, iTunes, Developer, etc. So it was a great surprise when I attempted to update Ventura beta 1 to beta 2...IT WORKED!

System Update was able to authenticate with the Developer Beta Seed program and determine that my VM was enrolled and the update was applied without any issue.

Can anyone tell me why this worked while other attempts to authenticate fail?

You are correct in understanding that macOS VMs currently don't support signing into certain Apple services (such as iCloud, iMessage/FaceTime, etc). However, software updates (with and without the help of the Beta Access Utilities) are fully supported on virtual machines.

Authentication working on VM? ...sort of
 
 
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