Can macOS 27 VMs be run on older versions of macOS?

As the title says, I'd like to run a macOS 27 VM on my Mac (the host is on macOS 26.5.1) in order to test my apps without having to update my host to a beta. My virtualization app of choice (VirtualBuddy) fails on installation when I use the restore image for macOS 27.0 (26A5353q) from the developer website.

The developer of VirtualBuddy believes this is a macOS limitation (https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy/discussions/683). (I filed FB22977958, but I'm not sure if they filed their own bug.)

Is there a workaround? It'd be very nice to have access to this during WWDC week. Usually I'd look for device support files on the developer website for download and/or install the Xcode beta first, but I've already installed the Xcode beta and there don't seem to be any device support files available.

Answered by DTS Engineer in 890890022

This came up during the Virtualization Q&A. See here.

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This came up during the Virtualization Q&A. See here.

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