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Arnavion·Oct 10, 2022

Searching a GitHub mirror reveals https://github.com/mdaniel/virtualbox-org-svn-vbox-trunk/com... No idea what bugref:10275 is. It's presumably not https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10275

In VirtualBox 7.0 Released – Full VM Encryption Support, New Direct3D Acceleration

skissane·Oct 8, 2021

So my understanding – if you run VirtualBox on macOS, and you choose macOS as Guest OS type when creating your VM, it automatically turns GetKeyFromRealSMC on. That means you are using option (2) by default. You can always switch to option (1) instead if you want to, but if you are virtualising macOS-on-macOS, there is little reason to. From reading the VirtualBox source code [0] – it also automatically enables GetKeyFromRealSMC if it detects Apple hardware, even if the host OS isn't macOS. So, if you install Windows on your Mac, and then create a macOS VM in VirtualBox, it will automatically select option (2) as well. (I think, they actually include the code to talk to the Apple SMC in their Windows and Linux kernel drivers too.) (Note I haven't actually tried doing this myself, this is just what I gather from the source.) [0] https://gi

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