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		vbezhenar on Oct 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VirtualBox 7.0 Released – Full VM Encryption Suppo... I rent x86 VPS and using it remotely. x86 VM on macOS basically is unusable. It's doable with qemu emulation, but it's as slow as molasses.

ta988 on Oct 11, 2022 [–]

You mean on M1. On x86 it is pretty fast. Basic stuff is usable but try Java on a x86 VM on M1 (the Java program I need has a lot of .so compiled for x86 so no choice)

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