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Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.

27 mentions on Hacker News by 23 people: 4 stories, 23 comments · first 2019-06-19 · latest 2023-11-26

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  1. …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
    comment by mseidl · 2023-11-26 · in Darling: Run macOS Software on Linux
  2. …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…
    comment by glowingly · 2022-04-14 · in Linux Hardware Database
  3. You can. https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
    comment by hparadiz · 2022-03-21 · in Windows needs a change in priorities
  4. …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
  5. …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
    comment by smoldesu · 2021-09-17 · in iOS on QEMU
  6. …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…
  7. …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/...
  8. …directly from apple.com. Of course then you have to go through the install process yourself. https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
  9. …macOS-Simple-KVM: "Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM." https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
  10. 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)
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    Ask HN: Why can't I run xcode/iMessage on Linux?
    story by cjoshmartin · 2021-02-02 · 10 comments
  12. …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…
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    macOS-Simple-KVM: Tools to Set Up a Quick macOS VM in QEMU, Accelerated by KVM
    story by tambourine_man · 2021-01-08 · 0 comments
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    macOS Simple KVM
    story by based2 · 2021-01-03 · 1 comment
  15. https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
    comment by varbhat · 2020-09-27 · in Catalina VM
  16. If you have a computer with linux, this kind of things could help: https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
  17. …as USB devices or a secondary GPU to achieve near-native graphics performance in your macOS VM. [0] https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
    comment by supernintendo · 2020-09-13 · in Fastmac – A macOS instance or Linux shell
  18. …noticed that using so would violate Github action's TOS. I run macos in qemu/kvm . works very good. https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
  19. …kholia's OSX-KVM[2]. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/gwg3e4/free_rele... [1] https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM [2] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
    comment by miles · 2020-06-04 · in macOS in QEMU in Docker
  20. …works fine. It's a bit silly to run an entire VM for a single application, but it does the trick. https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
  21. …it just fetches macOS and then gives you a shell script that launches qemu with a few flags: https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM Really, really fast, and fairly painless.
    comment by kick · 2020-05-22 · in MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
  22. Apart from very useful, also very easy to setup https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
  23. …by drivers like the one provided by smalltree. If someone want to try, here is with what I started https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
    comment by mskalski · 2020-01-28 · in My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec
  24. https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
  25. …with GPU passthrough. Linux is the best general purpose OS unless you're technically illiterate. https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
  26. https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
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    Documentation to set up a simple macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM
    story by paulcarroty · 2019-06-19 · 111 comments