Hackintosh Is Almost Dead

Re:Hackintosh Is Almost Dead by Retr0id on Saturday March 16, 2024 @02:30PM (#39728262)

macOS supports running as a paravirtualised guest OS (officially, on an apple-hardware host also running macOS). If there is to be a "next gen" of hackintoshing, I think it'd be based on a cut-down linux host acting as a shim between the real hardware and the paravirt interface.

See also: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230830161425.91946-1-graf@amaz... "This patch set introduces a new ARM and HVF specific machine type called "vmapple". It mimicks the device model that Apple's proprietary Virtualization.Framework exposes, but implements it in QEMU."

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Re:Hackintosh Is Almost Dead by hamandcheese on Saturday March 16, 2024 @03:23PM (#39728698)

One thing I've been on the hunt for is a good server hypervisor solution for Apple Silicon. I would like to put an Apple Silicon Mac Mini in my rack, and it would be really nice to have a minimally bootstrapped host OS running a handful of macOS VMs for various purposes.

The best I'm aware of currently is UTM which has some scripting capabilities. But that is very far off from the experience with Proxmox.

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Re:Hackintosh Is Almost Dead by shepherdjerred on Saturday March 16, 2024 @04:11PM (#39729080)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68R2SdbFj-8&themeRefresh=1

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Re:Hackintosh Is Almost Dead by hamandcheese on Saturday March 16, 2024 @05:59PM (#39729852)

I think you missed the "Apple Silicon" part of my comment.

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Re:Hackintosh Is Almost Dead by brirec on Saturday March 16, 2024 @06:59PM (#39730213)

I know Cirrus CI uses (and I think developed(?) Tart^1 as a scriptable VMM for macOS CI.

[1]: https://tart.run/

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Re:Hackintosh Is Almost Dead by m463 on Saturday March 16, 2024 @02:45PM (#39728360)

I was about to say that VMs will always be wanted.

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Re:Hackintosh Is Almost Dead by Asooka on Saturday March 16, 2024 @02:39PM (#39728316)

It would be interesting to see how feasible it is to run that on an Arm workstation, e.g. an Ampere Altra. Or going the other way and trying to squeeze macOS on to the latest Raspberry Pi.

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Re:Hackintosh Is Almost Dead by jayd16 on Saturday March 16, 2024 @02:46PM (#39728369)

Would be cool and ironic to get the full Macos on Android hardware.

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Re:Hackintosh Is Almost Dead by carlosjobim on Saturday March 16, 2024 @03:12PM (#39728602)

I would pay at least $100 to have MacOS running on an Android tablet.

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Re:Hackintosh Is Almost Dead by mdaniel on Saturday March 16, 2024 @10:21PM (#39731378)

Lucky you, that's how much they used to charge when one could actually, no kidding, buy Snow Leopard. I paid it so that my hackintosh (on HP Mini) wasn't stolen and I still have the CD-ROM, which shows you how long ago they cared about making the OS a purchasable thing

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Re:Hackintosh Is Almost Dead by DrNosferatu on Saturday March 16, 2024 @04:53PM (#39729395)

Came here to write what the parent is saying: exploit the virtualization route to trick MacOS into running on the target hardware.

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