Do you test your software in a VM to make sure you’ve packaged it correctly? Need advice for Mac OS.

I’ve always done this as a sanity check before shipping and it often catches problems (usually missing shared libraries). Otherwise you can be in a situation where your app works on your dev machine, but not on the user’s machine.

However, setting up a VM on Mac has always been a bit difficult, but it seems even more difficult now on M2 macs as virtualbox doesn’t support this architecture yet.

So does anyone know the easiest way to get a Mac OS (Sonoma) VM running on a Sonoma host with M2 CPU? I’ve got the ISO.

I’m currently looking at qemu, but it’s complicated. I just need virtualization, not emulation as host/guest CPUs are the same.

Or is this all unnecessary? What do most developer do?