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Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.

28 mentions on Hacker News by 25 people: 6 stories, 22 comments · first 2020-06-04 · latest 2025-05-15

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  1. Exactly, both https://github.com/dockur/macos and https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX rely on x86 and KVM for HW acceleration
    comment by frabonacci · 2025-05-15 · in Show HN: Lumier – Run macOS VMs in a Docker
  2. https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX can do it
    comment by Fizzadar · 2025-05-14 · in Show HN: Lumier – Run macOS VMs in a Docker
  3. There is also Docker OSX https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
    comment by haunter · 2024-12-12 · in Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches
  4. https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX seems more established. I used it a while back when I was in a country where that was legal. These days I just use GitHub Actions instead.
    comment by acheong08 · 2024-11-17 · in Run macOS in a Docker Container
  5. https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX Not sure about the law but I’ve been running MacOS in a VM for a while for compiling things
    comment by _lvbh · 2024-06-02 · in PEP 730 – Adding iOS as a supported platform
  6. https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
    comment by shepherdjerred · 2024-03-16 · in Hackintosh is almost dead
  7. …can get much more recent Safari (and iOS simulator Safari) releases through macOS virtualization, https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX though this skirts some Apple EULAs. If you want desktop Webkit rendering and JS interpreter parity,…
    comment by evilduck · 2024-02-25 · in Windows in a Docker Container
  8. …have a spot you can hook it up at; or, if you're fine doing things less than legally, you can use https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX .
    comment by judge2020 · 2024-01-11 · in GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer
  9. …on Linux runners, which will be much cheaper than Mac runners since those are usually Mac hardware) https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX > Also why do I have to pay Apple $125 a year when it costs $100 in the US? The exchange rate from…
    comment by ransackdev · 2023-08-23 · in Android Dev account terminated after 12 years for violating “Stalkerware policy”
  10. …but it’s ultimately running through qemu/kvm as well[2] 1. https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM 2. https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
    comment by ransackdev · 2023-07-11 · in Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
  11. …run docker containers in a yet to be released version of OSX that has native container support. https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
    comment by stuntkite · 2023-04-18 · in Apple Plans to Launch More Than Just Its New Headset at WWDC
  12. Maybe even https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX ?
    comment by gchamonlive · 2023-01-16 · in Apple TV prompt requires another Apple device
  13. …being furnished for it. I believe the GPU passthrough foundation is already there: PR #132: https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX/pull/132 ”[…] this PR introduces GPU passthrough support. This requires extensive configuration on the…
    comment by AnthonBerg · 2023-01-14 · in Docker-OSX: Run macOS VM in a Docker
  14. …I've been toying with idea of doing this in work for our devs on Intel MacBooks, using -> https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX , which enables local running on iOS devices. I think it's hampered by licensing though, maybe that's why…
    comment by AJRF · 2022-12-19 · in Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber
  15. …ecosystem at the moment. Purchase a 2nd hand iphone and then run this Docker based OSX system: https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX It's fine for personal projects using something like usbfluxd to talk to your iphone from the docker…
    comment by smackeyacky · 2022-03-03 · in iPhone 11 Emulated on QEMU
  16. …nested virtualization support with AMD CPUs to Hyper-V, so those problems might be fixed now. [1] https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
    comment by Mogzol · 2021-12-06 · in OS X-KVM: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM
  17. …in combo with most other methods but the docs are often confusing when I looked about a year ago): https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
    comment by lathiat · 2021-12-03 · in OS X-KVM: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM
  18. …from a disk image of an iMac, although that was a long time ago), and if you want easy-to-use https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX looks unbeatable (I say, having never tried it:]).
    comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2021-05-14 · in Lima: Linux-on-Mac
  19. Cool, heard good things about his Docker-OSX project: https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
    comment by paulcarroty · 2021-04-23 · in Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners
  20. …will perform better imo. Alternativelym you can also run macOS on linux. I had luck with Docker-OSX https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
    comment by miguelmota · 2020-11-12 · in macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
  21. Sure, but step-by-step guide always increase your chances heavily. Example: https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
    comment by paulcarroty · 2020-09-05 · in AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac
  22. Issue resolved https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX/issues/7
    comment by miguelmota · 2020-06-05 · in macOS in QEMU in Docker