With the October 2021 update to this macOS packer template, it now supports 11.0.1 through 12.0 versions. Changing the username and password used to build the images is more straightforward, and quite a few new options have been parameterized. One change I have been chasing for a while is approving the VMware tools …

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With the release of a new ARM based processer for Apple Mac computers, an interesting transition is happening. People who depend on using virtual machines for tasks will need to adapt to new requirements for running them. Aside from VMware Fusion, Parallels and qemu a few other options have popped up. In this post, …

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I’m publishing this script that configures macports from the github source. This method gets you the ports base and ports themselvs from the master branch of git. I have found that using mac ports this way enables support for bleeding edge OS versions or CPU architectures. Grab the code : …

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