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I liked Multipass until I ran into storage corruption issues like many others [1][2] and broke all my VMs. On MacOS, Multipass uses qemu in which the apple-hvf
by 5kg 2y ago
I liked Multipass until I ran into storage corruption issues like many others [1][2] and broke all my VMs. On MacOS, Multipass uses qemu in which the apple-hvf support isn't getting much updates after 2021 [3].
[1]: https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/3455 https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/3455
[2]: https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/3235 https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/3235
[3]: https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commits/master/accel/hvf https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commits/master/accel/hvf
- hedora 2y agoThanks for the heads up.
- gigatexal 2y agoRe: quemu and apple hvf that’s really sad news.
- 5kg 2y agoThe VM disk corruption problem has been affecting all open source Apple hvf hypervisors. lima with vfkit or UTM are most promising ones for now: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/1957#issuecomment-1825120819 https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/1957#issuecomment-182..., https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/pull/2026 https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/pull/2026, https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/pull/5919 https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/pull/5919