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JSR_FDEDtoday at 4:00 AM1 replyview on HN

Looked at Lume before and it was already very impressive then. For this unattended use case this looks amazing.

Slight tangent - do the VMs have decent graphics performance? I live in fear of one day accidentally pressing the Update button and being forced into the GUI mess that is Tahoe. Knowing I could just use a VM with Sequioa as my primary desktop would dramatically lower my anxiety.


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frabonaccitoday at 4:24 AM

Thanks! On graphics - currently it's paravirtualized via Apple's Virtualization Framework, so basic 2D acceleration but no GPU passthrough. Fine for desktop use, web browsing, coding, productivity apps. Wouldn't recommend it for anything GPU-intensive though.

Good news is there are hints of GPU passthrough coming (_VZPCIDeviceConfiguration symbol appeared in Tahoe's Virtualization framework), so that might land in a future macOS release. We're keeping an eye on it.