Metal console
The guest display in a Metal-backed window with a status strip, full screen and picture-in-picture — and a clear statement that this is scanout, not a virtual GPU.
Why it matters
A guest window should composite efficiently and tell you what it is doing — whether the keyboard is captured, whether guest tools connected, how networking is set up. Most consoles leave you guessing about all three.
What changes
Without it
- A guest window with no indication of capture state or device status.
- Marketing that implies acceleration the guest does not actually have.
With 1VMTool
- A status strip stating the keyboard-release combination, guest tools status, networking and rendering mode.
- The window is described as Metal scanout rather than a GPU, because that is what it is.
What it covers
- Metal-backed presentation of the guest framebuffer
- Status strip covering keyboard release, guest tools, sharing and networking
- Full screen and picture-in-picture
- Clipboard sharing and Mac-shortcut translation
- Openable from the terminal as well as the app
What you get out of it
- Never wonder why the keyboard stopped responding
- Honest information about what the display layer is and is not
Try it on your own Mac
Every screen states its limits before you commit to anything.