Frustrating for you, hilarious for me. I had no idea they had hobbled MacOS in t...

stephenr · 2026-04-12T14:21:24 1776003684

I run up to a dozen Linux VMs at once on my Macs.

I've never hit the referenced limit because it isn't a limit on running VMs it's a limit on running macOS, and I hardly ever run macOS VMs.

I'm not sure why people don't use Mac's are so obsessed with telling people who do use Macs that they're wrong, and yet here we are.

musicale · 2026-04-12T22:51:49 1776034309

The limit is for macOS running in a VM (which is mainly useful for developing iOS and macOS apps, for example cloud-based testing and CI/CD workflows.)

Most developers build web- and server-based systems that use Linux VMs as back-ends.

Most containers used for development are Linux containers, which also run in a Linux VM.

stingraycharles · 2026-04-12T12:32:24 1775997144

Because we have customers that use macOS and both x86 and apple silicon are build targets of ours.

cowboylowrez · 2026-04-12T11:58:25 1775995105

yeah I'm glad I paid extra for linux on a used dell, I'd hate to be slumming in some poverty ridden ghetto like mac users with their vm limits