I am certain that if Apple fixes the problem with getty, this technique will work here as well. I think this is a system bug because the old trick of using >console as the username to get a text terminal behaves the same way in 10.11 and 10.12.
It does not seem to work on 10.12 the login prompt is displayed but no input is accepted from the keyboard. Note: I've verified that this works beautifully on MacOSX 10.9 Mavericks and 10.10 Yosemite.
Perhaps disabling the GUI will free up some memory and CPU cycles.įor example, on my fairly vanilla macOS 10.12 VM with a user logged in and a terminal running: Once more than one VM is running, things really start to slow down because of swapping and the like. The default VMWare settings for 10.9 are a 40GB disk and 2 GB of memory. Since I'll be running the builds unattended, there's no real need for anything other than SSH or terminal access. I'm trying to set up a continuous integration farm with VMs for each major OS revision and memory gets pretty tight on my Mac Mini "server".
In such cases, there's no need to have the overhead of the GUI and all of the processes it starts up. For example, when running a headless install, or in a constrained environment such as a continuous integration server. This is admittedly a niche need, but it comes in handy at times.
#Mixscope mac os x mac osx#
Every once in a while, I run into a situation where I wish there was a way to run a Mac OSX box (these days rebranded macOS) without all of the GUI craziness.
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