As of macOS 12 (Monterey), Apple's Virtualization framework has nice support for macOS guest virtual machines, but with severe limitations: For example you can't install a macOS guest on Intel Macs, install guests with newer versions of macOS than the host, copy and paste between the host and the guest, or install third party kernel extensions in the guest. As usual for Apple, the functionality they do support is nicely implemented, but they've left out so much that the result is only marginally useful -- at least compared to
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Running Third Party Kernel Extensions on Virtualization Framework macOS Guest VMs
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/ library_injector.cpp
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Load a library into newly spawned processes (using DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES and EndpointSecurity)
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| // To compile: clang++ -arch x86_64 -arch arm64 -std=c++20 library_injector.cpp -lbsm -lEndpointSecurity -o library_injector, | |
| // then codesign with com.apple.developer.endpoint-security.client and run the | |
| // program as root. | |
| #include <EndpointSecurity/EndpointSecurity.h> | |
| #include <algorithm> | |
| #include <array> | |
| #include <bsm/libbsm.h> | |
| #include <cstddef> | |
| #include <cstdint> |