How to boot safe mode?

[daemontroll]

I am running an M3 macOS host and it is running 26.1. I have a virtualbuddy vm and it is running macOS 26.1. I need to boot the vm into safe mode. It used to be hold shift while booting, I see that for the M series Macs this has changed. It is now holding the power button down. I tried to boot holding shift and I tried to boot holding the power button on the top right of the vm. Neither one booted safe mode. I found some references to setting some nvram settings but those return errors about the command. I also found some references that the nvram settings do not work on virtual machines.

So anyone know how to make a virtualbuddy macOS vm boot into safe mode or safe boot?

[insidegui]

AFAIK there is no "safe mode" for Apple Silicon. Your only option for system recovery is to boot into Recovery Mode, and there's a toggle for that in VirtualBuddy.

[daemontroll]

There is, https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/start-up-your-mac-in-safe-mode-mh21245/mac tells you how to do it on both M series and Intel. But that is physical not virtual. Not sure how to get that done in VirtualBuddy.

[insidegui]

TIL. I'd say it's likely not supported in virtual machines. Send feedback to Apple in Feedback Assistant requesting the feature.