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Re:Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS... by ryandrake on Thursday January 01, 2026 @02:58PM (#46457449)
My first reaction was: Fuck! Terrible timing!! I just spent the last few days (during some time off from work) manually setting up macOS and Windows qemu VMs on my homelab running Proxmox, just to see if I could do it. And navigating all the janky, old tutorials, forums full of "try this" junk, hitting roadblock after roadblock (ProTip: macOS versions > Monterey will NOT run on Ivy Bridge processors in a virtualized environment) and trying to filter out and dodge AI garbage advice, was a real slog. Why didn't I see this article the first time it made the rounds on HN???

My second reaction was in line with yours. This is awesome. Bookmarked already. +1 for the suggestion of doing more ancient Windows versions.

Re:Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS... by 2setIntrsction on Friday January 02, 2026 @01:46AM (#46462097)
lol I just moved from the same setup to a fully Nix based homelab.

Proxmox was a good start but I don’t need it (I think)

Re:Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS... by thejazzman on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:34PM (#46484958)
Don’t kill the messenger but https://github.com/luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX

I installed Sequoia but it’s painfully slow on a 4 core 3ghz something or other. I previously did the one after high sierra and it’s reasonably snappy, but APFS outdated for my situation