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# VZMacOSVirtualMachineStartOptions

A class that describes start options for macOS VMs.

```
class VZMacOSVirtualMachineStartOptions
```

## Topics

### Setting recovery mode

[`startUpFromMacOSRecovery`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZMacOSVirtualMachineStartOptions/startUpFromMacOSRecovery)

A Boolean value that indicates whether the macOS guest should start in recovery mode.

### Provisioning options

[`VZMacGuestProvisioningOptions`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZMacGuestProvisioningOptions)

The configuration for guest setup during macOS virtual machine startup.

[`VZGuestProvisioningOptions`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZGuestProvisioningOptions)

The base class for guest provisioning options.

[`VZGuestMemoryMapping`](/documentation/Virtualization/VZGuestMemoryMapping)

An object that represents a chunk of the guest operating system’s dynamic random access memory (DRAM).


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