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Features

• Apple Silicon Virtualization - Provides a comprehensive graphical interface for managing virtualized operating systems on M-series chips.
• Virtual Machine Managers - Provides a manager for configuring hardware resources, managing machine states, and booting from various image sources.
• Virtualization GUIs - Ships a dedicated graphical interface for creating and managing macOS virtual machines on Apple M-series chips.
• macOS Virtualization - Enables macOS guest operating systems to run on Apple Silicon for testing and beta releases.
• Hardware-Accelerated Hypervisors - Uses hardware-accelerated virtualization to execute guest operating systems with near-native CPU performance.
• Virtual Machines - Provides tools for creating and managing virtual machines, including resource allocation and state management.
• Virtual Machine - Enables capturing and restoring the memory and disk state of running guests to resume previous sessions.
• Virtual Machine Provisioning - Supports the installation and booting of operating systems via local files, remote URLs, and image catalogs.
• OS Version Compatibility Testing - Allows verifying application behavior across different macOS versions by launching guest operating systems.
• Guest Host Filesystem Sharing - Provides mechanisms for sharing directories between the macOS host and the virtualized guest system.
• Virtio Device Emulators - Implements the virtio standard for paravirtualized network and storage communication between host and guest.
• Host-Guest Integration Tools - Facilitates data exchange via synchronized folders and clipboard sharing between the host and guest.
• Virtual Hardware Customization - Provides the ability to adjust virtual hardware specifications and resource allocations for guest machines.
• VM Session State Restoration - Enables users to save and restore the current progress of a running session to resume work instantly.

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