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M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS

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176 points Brajeshwar | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 16:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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roopepal ◴[16 Nov 24 16:56 UTC] No.42157400[source]▶
> It seems that M4 chips can’t virtualise any version of macOS before 13.4 Ventura

13.4 was released on May 18, 2023. That's actually not very far into the past.

Anyway, what would be the most common use cases for this? And how common are those?

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grishka ◴[16 Nov 24 17:04 UTC] No.42157446[source]▶
If you're building macOS apps, it's common to want to test them on all system versions you support. Especially so considering Apple's attitude towards backwards compatibility.
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alanfranz ◴[16 Nov 24 22:26 UTC] No.42159931[source]▶
And yet Monterey is EOL. Very few apps still support it. I wonder if it's just something that wasn't tested exactly for that reason.
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1. 1over137 ◴[17 Nov 24 04:57 UTC] No.42162073[source]▶
>Very few apps still support it

Citation? I use Monterey at work and every app I need works on it still.