{"id":45803,"date":"2024-11-15T16:02:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T21:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=45803"},"modified":"2024-11-22T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T15:06:24","slug":"m4-macs-cant-virtualise-older-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/15\/m4-macs-cant-virtualise-older-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"M4 Macs Can&rsquo;t Virtualize Older macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2024\/11\/14\/m4-macs-cant-virtualise-older-macos\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2024\/11\/14\/m4-macs-cant-virtualise-older-macos\/\">\n<p>Running a macOS VM for any version before 13.4 Ventura on an M4 Mac results in a black screen, and the VM fails to boot. This is true whatever settings are used in the virtualiser, even if it&rsquo;s set to boot the VM in Recovery mode. It&rsquo;s also true when that VM has been built on that Mac: although that appears to complete successfully, when first run that VM opens as a black screen and never proceeds with personalisation and setup.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the only way to run a VM with macOS prior to 13.4 Ventura is to do so on a host with an M1, M2 or M3 chip.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The first versions that can run in VMs are macOS 12 Monterey, although prior to 12.4 they can sometimes be a bit fractious. They also have major limitations, such as not supporting shared folders with the host.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/30\/apple-m4-pro-and-m4-max\/\">Apple M4 Pro and M4 Max<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/02\/securing-virtual-machines-on-apple-silicon\/\">Securing Virtual Machines on Apple Silicon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/15\/sequoia-beta-3-vms-dont-support-mac-app-store\/\">Sequoia Beta 3 VMs Don&rsquo;t Support Mac App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/15\/limitations-on-macos-virtual-machines\/\">Limitations on macOS Virtual Machines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"m4-macs-cant-virtualise-older-macos-update-2024-11-18\">Update (2024-11-18): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/11\/18\/m4-macs-do-not-run-early-macos-vms\/\">MacRumors<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=42157086\">Hacker News<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"m4-macs-cant-virtualise-older-macos-update-2024-11-22\">Update (2024-11-22): <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/theevilbit\/status\/1859625082764591492\">Csaba Fitzl<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/theevilbit\/status\/1859625082764591492\"><p>Apple confirmed that it&rsquo;s a bug and they plan fixing it. &#x1F973;<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: Running a macOS VM for any version before 13.4 Ventura on an M4 Mac results in a black screen, and the VM fails to boot. This is true whatever settings are used in the virtualiser, even if it&rsquo;s set to boot the VM in Recovery mode. It&rsquo;s also true when that VM has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-11-15T21:02:52Z","apple_news_api_id":"4118aed0-da24-4ecb-88b6-d6a7657adc59","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-11-22T15:06:26Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQRiu0NokTsuIttanZXrcWQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2583,2680,2679,30,1891,2077,2223,2598,2202,2251],"class_list":["post-45803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-m4","tag-apple-m4-max","tag-apple-m4-pro","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-macos-12","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-utm","tag-virtualization"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45803"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45870,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45803\/revisions\/45870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}