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by eptcyka 1133 days ago
Apple is anti-VM - there is a soft limit on how many VMs one can run on their M1/M2 Macs. The number is 2.
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pasc1878 1133 days ago
That is the number of macOS VMs. Linux windows etc is not limited
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eptcyka 1133 days ago
If I cared about Linux VMs, I wouldn't be running macOS as my host.
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jraph 1133 days ago
Maybe you don't, but it's common for macOS users to run Linux VMs to get shit done.
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eptcyka 1133 days ago
Sure, but for getting shit done, you can always use nested VMs or SSH into a real linux machine if need be. Regardless, the fact that you can run an unspecified amount of Linux VMs yet macOS VMs are limited to 2 is even more egregious. It's far cheaper to get Linux VMs anywhere than macOS VMs.
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