Michael Roy (tweet):
Big Sur brings with it some really big visual changes, but also major changes under the hood. For instance, Apple has been progressively deprecating 3rd party Kernel Extensions or “kexts” which Fusion needs to run VMs and containers. In order to continue to operate in this model, we’ve re-architected our hypervisor stack to leverage Apple’s native hypervisor APIs, allowing us to run VMs without any kernel extensions.
On macOS Catalina systems, Fusion operates as it always has using kernel extensions to provide functionality. However on Big Sur systems, Fusion operates entirely without kexts.
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This Tech Preview supports macOS Big Sur 11.0 Beta 2 for both Host and Guest.
Michael Roy:
Mojave is explicitly not supported. The next major version of Fusion will deprecate Mojave hosts.
See also:
Previously:
Kernel Extensions Mac macOS 10.14 Mojave macOS 10.15 Catalina macOS 11.0 Big Sur VMware
David Shayer:
An Apple build number also has three parts:
- Major version: Within Apple, the major version is called the build train.
- Minor version: For iOS and its descendants, the minor version tracks with the minor release; for macOS, it tracks with patch releases.
- Daily build version: The daily build indicates how many times Apple has built the source code for the release since the previous public release.
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Apple isn’t dogmatic about following these rules, or, to put it another way, circumstances sometimes force the company to deviate from its rules. If it had followed past years, iOS 13.1 would have been 17Bxxx, but it was 17A844. This fact probably means that Apple originally thought that iOS 13.1 was going to be iOS 13.0.1, but it ended up containing such important changes that the company decided to increment the minor version number rather than the patch version number.
iOS iOS 13 iOS 14 Mac macOS 10.15 Catalina macOS 11.0 Big Sur
Riley Testut:
Clip is a clipboard manager for iOS that can run in the background indefinitely, listening for changes to the clipboard and saving your clippings for later use. Normally this would be impossible without jailbreaking, but Clip uses several workarounds to achieve this functionality within the constraints imposed by iOS. Unfortunately, despite working just fine these workarounds are all against App Store rules…which is what makes Clip perfect for AltStore 🎉
Previously:
AltStore Clip iOS iOS 13 iOS App iOS Multitasking Pasteboard
