Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs

Re:Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs by musicale on Saturday February 12, 2022 @07:21PM (#30317767)

Doesn't github actions support xcode builds for macOS and iOS?

There are also several macOS cloud service providers - including Amazon/AWS, which even has M1 instances.

I expect the secret that makes it easy and license-compliant is running on Apple hardware (presumably Mac mini.)

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Re:Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs by saagarjha on Saturday February 12, 2022 @08:10PM (#30318081)

GitHub Actions has a special agreement with Apple that allows them to not have to follow the terms of the macOS EULA.

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Re:Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs by musicale on Saturday February 12, 2022 @08:42PM (#30318295)

Do you have a reference for Apple granting a special macOS license to GitHub/Microsoft? Edit: apparently it's under NDA.

What about AWS, Macstadium, etc.?

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Re:Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs by saagarjha on Saturday February 12, 2022 @08:45PM (#30318307)

As far as I am aware, they get no special exemptions, and offer Mac minis with 24-hour minimum renting terms.

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Re:Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs by calypso on Saturday February 12, 2022 @08:18PM (#30318148)

Mac stadium is a large Ci/CD provider for macOS. They rack mount iMac Pro’s and Mac minis.

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Re:Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs by electroly on Saturday February 12, 2022 @10:06PM (#30318737)

AWS's Mac instances aren't VMs; they are dedicated machines. I could swear I read that GitHub uses MacStadium for the Mac runners, which is also dedicated machines, but I can't find any documentation that supports that claim.

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