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Throrik said:
I do agree on the scale, but it's very difficult when you are being lambasted because you can't raise cases, or license new services with the portfolio you pay >£10m a year to.
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I know mate, and I'm sorry. I'm sure it will be sorted soon, if you have a TAM then make your feelings known although I suspect it would just get lost with the noise from all the other customers complaining too!
 
This is a really stupid question but I have a FreeBSD 14.0 virtual machine and I can't for the life of me figure out how to paste CLI commands in the virtual machine. I have all the updates installed and the latest version of Fusion. I must be doing something wrong.
 
Cromulent said:
This is a really stupid question but I have a FreeBSD 14.0 virtual machine and I can't for the life of me figure out how to paste CLI commands in the virtual machine. I have all the updates installed and the latest version of Fusion. I must be doing something wrong.
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I think you need to enable vmware_guestd_enable and vmware_guest_kmod_enable - this may just be for full on ESXi running open-guest-tools though, I haven't used Fusion/Workstation in so long to remember if they run in guest tools.

Cromulent said:
Eh. I'll just SSH in instead.
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This is the way really, with a standard user and then invoke doas if you need to. Appreciate you've already got this up and running, but I'd just use QEMU for this, I found it worked much better with BSD.
 
Throrik said:
I think you need to enable vmware_guestd_enable and vmware_guest_kmod_enable - this may just be for full on ESXi running open-guest-tools though, I haven't used Fusion/Workstation in so long to remember if they run in guest tools.



This is the way really, with a standard user and then invoke doas if you need to. Appreciate you've already got this up and running, but I'd just use QEMU for this, I found it worked much better with BSD.
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Yeah. I'm going to have a play around with QEMU. It seems to be much more flexible.
 
Cromulent said:
Does QEMU support the Apple virtualisation framework? It would be good to be able to play around with QEMU at decent speed on Apple Silicon.
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I'll be honest, I always forget the AVF exists, I need to play around with it more - I'm not sure how much (if any) faster AVF would be than QEMU, and it's significantly more complex in terms of code / bringup - there's also the Apple Hypervisor API framework, which QEMU front-ends like UTM use. I haven't used UTM myself, as I mainly use QEMU-KVM on the Linux side nowadays and rarely run anything natively on the MacOS side other than the odd container for testing.
 
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Throrik said:
I'll be honest, I always forget the AVF exists, I need to play around with it more - I'm not sure how much (if any) faster AVF would be than QEMU, and it's significantly more complex in terms of code / bringup - there's also the Apple Hypervisor API framework, which QEMU front-ends like UTM use. I haven't used UTM myself, as I mainly use QEMU-KVM on the Linux side nowadays and rarely run anything natively on the MacOS side other than the odd container for testing.
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I really need to improve my Swift skills so I can play around with the Apple API. As for UTM I bought it on the app store for a couple of quid I think. It wasn't much (I know you can get it free but I wanted to support the dev).
 
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