Instance??? (for looking at new software)

Posted by Larry_in_Bangkok
Oct 26, 2021 at 10:53 AM

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Maurice Parker wrote (on a different topic):
>I’m on Monterey and don’t currently have a instance of Big Sur installed somewhere that I can
>test. I’ll spin up a Big Sur instance ...

Ah, this could be very useful to those of us wanting to look at brand new software (such as Zavala), but don’t have the latest Mac OS. (Mojave here)

Is “spin up an instance” something you do on your personal/work Mac?
How?
Do you need “virtual machine” software to do that?

Or is an on-line service such as at Digital Ocean or Shells?

Or something else entirely?

Thank you.
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