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macOS virtual machines

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Memory overhead

  1. Windows guests on VMware Fusion suffer from memory leaks, on version 26H1u1 with M3 Max hardware.
  2. Linux guests on UTM with QEMU backend doesn’t leak memory that often, but has roughly 1x of memory overhead compared to what’s allocated to the VM.
  3. macOS guests on UTM with Apple Virtualization backend has minimal memory overhead, and doesn’t seem to leak memory.

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