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Hi, maybe this is a stupid question, but you cannot have FireWire inside a VM running on a macOS 26 host, right? Background is, I have an old FireWire film scanner that stopped working after the macOS 26 release, but it was working flawlessly with adapters on macOS 15 / MacBook Air M4. I'd like to be able to use my scanner again, so I thought that maybe virtualisation will help. If VirtualBuddy cannot do this, do you know any other way to run FireWire devices on macOS 26 (ARM) hosts? Maybe by virtualising Linux or Windows? |
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Apple removed FireWire completely in macOS 26 at the kernel level, so it's unlikely that any virtualization solution will work in this case. Unfortunately I think your best option would be to get an old used Mac to keep around if you really need to use that device, or maybe wait to see if someone will develop a third-party FireWire driver for macOS 26 (unlikely). |
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Thank you for your answer @insidegui 🙏 At least I know my options now. |
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Apple removed FireWire completely in macOS 26 at the kernel level, so it's unlikely that any virtualization solution will work in this case. Unfortunately I think your best option would be to get an old used Mac to keep around if you really need to use that device, or maybe wait to see if someone will develop a third-party FireWire driver for macOS 26 (unlikely).