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Allow control over disk image location
First of all, thanks for making this app! Having a virtualized linux on ARM architecture is very helpful for my work.
But I would have liked to be able to customize the location of the disk image files, for at least two reasons:
- Be able to cleanup orphaned files. The Library folder tends to accumulate a lot of waste on a Mac that has been running for years. This is not so much of a problem for most data, but when having disk image files at > 20Gb it does become a problem.
- Easy exclusion from backup software. I really don't want these files to be backed up, neither to my on-site time machine, nor my secondary cloud base backup solution.
I would kinda argue, that virtual disks is for virtualization software a bit like document files for a word processor, the user should have full control over their location.
Also, finding the files is not easy, I couldn't find anywhere in the app, that actually displays the file location. It took a google search to learn where they are located, so I could add the backup exclusions.
This would also be a very useful improvement for users who might need to run VMs off of an external disk. (Users of 256GB machines who have external disks mounted, etc).
This is a limitation of the app sandbox. You can manually move the .utm bundles to another location and they should automatically get updated as shortcuts.