NInix23·Aug 31, 2022
Or use virtualbox:
https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
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macos-virtualbox
Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS
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What it is
Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox Put MacOS and Linux (I recommend Ubuntu Mate for desktop) on there as a couple of VMs and poof, a much less ungodly 16GB of RAM…
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| May 2020 | 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Jun 2020 | 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jul 2020 | 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2020 | 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2020 | 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2020 | 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2020 | 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Dec 2020 | 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jan 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Feb 2021 | 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 2021 | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 2021 | 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2021 | 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2021 | 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2021 | 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2021 | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Sep 2021 | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 2021 | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2021 | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2021 | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2022 | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mar 2022 | 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2022 | 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2022 | 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2022 | 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2022 | 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2022 | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
23 sourceshttps://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
Put MacOS and Linux (I recommend Ubuntu Mate for desktop) on there as a couple of VMs and poof, a much less ungodly 16GB of RAM per OS.
In Ask HN: What can I do with 48GB of RAM?Something like that?
https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
In Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon MacsYes, and another alternative is this project using VirtualBox.
https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
In Provenance: iOS and tvOS multi-emulator front endPush-Button Installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra in Virtualbox
3 points · Open discussionI have had good success with this: https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
In A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in ElectronIf 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
In Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google PhotosSosumi Snap uses Clover internally.
[1] showed how to boot macOS in KVM without the usual Clover / Opencore setup but is not maintained for newer versions anymore. [2] shows how to run current macOS versions without Clover or Opencore in VirtualBox by changing the VM's ACPI(?) entries and loading variables into the NVRAM. [3] uses KVM but also uses Opencore.
I tried to translate [2] to QEMU but was never successful.
Does anybody know some resources how to have a pure KVM macOS VM without any hackintoshing?
[1] https://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/
[2] https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
[3] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
In Sosumi Snap – Download and Install macOS in Ubuntu> Felt like an enourmous waste of money and time.
And it certainly was. But sometimes you have well-appreciated macOS users that you have not yet managed to convert out of it. In that case, instead of throwing away your money you can easily [0] install a Catalina vm inside linux or windows. With a quite small effort, you can readily check that your program compiles and runs on that shitty system.
[0] https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
In Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”It's nothing special. I use Kubuntu on a MBP, and I've talked about how I've setup Plasma Desktop before on HN[1][2].
I run Catalina in a VM because it's the oldest macOS version that supports the APIs I'm developing against. I used to use KVM for virtualizing macOS, but VirtualBox[3] is more portable despite being much slower, so I use that now.
If you can use KVM with Virtio and VFIO passthrough, it's really fast. Linux just got Virtio-fs[4], too. I've had to pass boot options to the kernel to get the IOMMU to play nicely on the Mac, though, and I just don't have patience for that these days.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23607374
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25172499
[3] https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
[4] https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/
In Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updatesYou can also run a MacOS VM in VirtualBox on Ubuntu. No Apple hardware needed.
https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
In Amazon EC2 Mac InstancesThis script seems to include the magic encryption string[0]. I'm surprised that it hasn't been DMCA'd yet.
[0]: https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox/blob/master/...
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