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macOS: persistent home lives at /Volumes/vmix-home/<user> (no mount over /Users)

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macOS refuses to mount a volume over /Users (firmlink), and a failing fstab
entry also suppresses the automount. Point NFSHomeDirectory at the automounted
volume instead. Profile: Dock entries need tile-type/file URL; wait for the
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@ -154,11 +154,13 @@ net, sound, balloon, vsock — QEMU's modern virtio-pci devices work as-is:
for every `shares.<name>` beyond the first. `vmix run --macos --share DIR`.
(9p does not automount on macOS; the Linux `-virtfs` path is not used.)
* **ephemeral OS disk + persistent home**: `generalize { persistHome = true; }`
adds `LABEL=vmix-home /Users apfs rw 0 2` to the image's fstab. The host
provides a virtio-blk disk (`macos.homeDisk` in the module, `--home FILE` in
the CLI: qcow2/raw file or zvol) that `formatVolume` formats as APFS
`vmix-home` by booting the PE for ~35 s on first use. macOS mounts it at
`/Users` before login, home directories are created there; the OS disk can run
gives the account its home directory on an APFS volume labelled `vmix-home`
(`NFSHomeDirectory = /Volumes/vmix-home/<user>`; macOS refuses mounts over
`/Users`, which is a firmlink). The host provides a virtio-blk disk
(`macos.homeDisk` in the module, `--home FILE` in the CLI: qcow2/raw file or
zvol) that `formatVolume` formats as APFS `vmix-home` by booting the PE for
~35 s on first use; diskarbitrationd mounts it before login and loginwindow
creates the home directory there on first login. The OS disk can then run
with `snapshot=on` (`disks.os.persist = false`).
* **SPICE**: `-vga vmware` (or `std`) is kept as the display device — macOS has
no QXL/virtio-gpu driver; USB redirection channels work as for other guests