macOS Monterey - Hackdot

Re:macOS Monterey by crooked-v on Monday October 25, 2021 @08:15PM (#28994932)

> Yes we can use VMs for this, but Mac laptops aren’t generally beefy machines

The newest ones with M1/M1 Pro are actually pretty beefy, and even the Macbook Air has benchmarks that beat literally everything else in the Apple lineup except the iMac Pros and the new-model Mac Pros.

This doesn't help much with current equipment, but it should make future planning easier.

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Re:macOS Monterey by smoldesu on Monday October 25, 2021 @08:28PM (#28995027)

What they really need is something powerful and open along the lines of QEMU/KVM. HyperKit is dead-last when it comes the virtualization race, and it's one of the technologies I'm rooting for Apple to scrap altogether. MacOS needs either a thinner hypervisor or a lower-level virtualization solution, either of which I see as equally unlikely from Apple.

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Re:macOS Monterey by pram on Monday October 25, 2021 @10:30PM (#28995750)

They added a framework specifically for Linux in Big Sur. Also QEMU runs on MacOS lol

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization

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Re:macOS Monterey by jxy on Monday October 25, 2021 @11:48PM (#28996202)

Does MacOS run on QEMU?

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Re:macOS Monterey by pram on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:25AM (#28996386)

It does! Even PPC versions.

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Re:macOS Monterey by joconde on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @06:21AM (#28998541)

Is there an official source of disk images to install macOS in a VM?

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Re:macOS Monterey by ubercow13 on Monday October 25, 2021 @08:54PM (#28995165)

QEMU runs on macos already?

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Re:macOS Monterey by smoldesu on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:21PM (#28995302)

That's news to me!

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Re:macOS Monterey by fastball on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:06PM (#28995214)

Pretty happy with Parallels performance on my M1 Mac tbh.

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