macos

Experiments With Arm64 VMs on AppleSilicon Mac

Nov 27, 2020 macos linux virtualmachine AppleSilicon

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, …

Packer Template for macOS 11 on VMware Fusion

Oct 11, 2020 packer macos VMware

Testing macOS 11 Big Sur is underway at a lot of organizations in preparation for its release. Lot’s of changes to macOS will have impact on tooling and compatibility. Looking around I didn’t see any existing solutions for automating the build of macOS 11 VMs. With this template and related tools you can …

Using macports from git source

Sep 16, 2020 bash macos ports

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 : …