macOS-Simple-KVM

I'm a 30 year linux veteran and windows free for over 22. I di d have a windows vm for some time because I have some music stuff that doesn't work with linux, like a nord keyboard and some guitar stuff. But i burnt the vm with fire when I found https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

I know it's unmaintained now, but SimpleOSX VM defaulted to a Core 2 Duo. Looks like it's successor also defaults to a Core 2 Duo, though with 2 cores and SMT. https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM That being said, just browsing through that site, it doesn't immediately seem like it's this family of Hackingtosh VMs adding significantly to the list or at all.

You can. https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

The whole setup with WSLg is pretty nice. Virt-manager works, but more importantly with nested AMD virtualization (which I believe is indeed limited to Windows 11; Windows 10 has nested Intel support, though) it was super easy to use macOS-Simple-KVM[0] to run a Mac VM, even if the FS performance isn't great and I don't have an extra AMD card lying around to passthrough for hardware acceleration. 0: https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

It's very doable, it takes like 10 minutes if your internet is reasonably quick and if you're lucky you might even get GPU acceleration out of it. I used this to set mine up: https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

Can anyone comment on the possibility of going in the opposite direction? I’m considering buying the frame.work laptop, daily driving pop!_os and then virtualizing OSX on it for the few OSX programs I use (this supports framework and not apple). It looks like it may be fairly easy and possible with a 10-20% performance hit? https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM From what I can tell you can pass through a single GPU with a bit of work, even a iGPU? Is that correct?

It does not require an Apple ID , it is impossible to use one without some further configuration. [1] You can’t use the App Store without an Apple ID, so you are unable to download Xcode I think. macOS is closed source, so we don’t really know hoe much it phones home. 1. https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM/blob/master/docs/...

There's a script linked in the post that downloads the installer directly from apple.com. Of course then you have to go through the install process yourself. https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

If the other machines on your LAN include Windows or Linux boxes, you could use Photos.app in a macOS VM to bulk download the files; here are some projects that make it easy: macos-virtualbox: "Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox for Windows, Linux, and macOS" https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox macOS-Simple-KVM: "Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM." https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM works pretty well for me (not for daily use though as it uses software rendering, but fine for compiling/testing apps)

It is now easier then ever to get a MacOS VM up and running on a linux machine, using something like Simple MacOS Kvm(https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM). People have also got MacOS running inside docker containers and on k8: * https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBELP05oPO4&ab_channel=AltConf There have been big moves to get windows video games to run well on linux with the help of services like Proton (https://www.protondb.com/) and Lutris (https://lutris.net/). Why not apple services? I can run apple services easily inside of my MacOS KVM VM, why I can't directly run services imessage or xcode on my linux machine? MacOS could be running headless inside a docker container, and have an interface on the linux side to look at imessage or xcode, right?

It went okay, the install was a little messy, I had to restart the VM a couple of times when it hung, but I got it t work in the end, and the actual system itself is pretty stable. I used this project: https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM Thanks for the tip in regards to Epiphany, I am aware, but it doesn't help with testing stuff like ITP unfortunately.

https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM