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Re:Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Openi... by user43928 on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:10AM (#48904023)
Does anyone actually use one of those for iOS development?

Linux VMs are not relevant here. For downloading Xcode and building apps, I believe one needs to sign in with their Apple account.

Does this work well with a macOS VM?

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Re:Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Openi... by 999_cirno on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:17AM (#48904074)
Yes! That is arguably the killer feature. You can virtualize macOS in macOS with (nearly) native speed and this is officially supported. Heck, even can run multiple of them at the same time.

See docs here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/vir...

And projects like Tart, VirtualBuddy, etc. provide convenient wrappers for these APIs.

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Re:Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Openi... by fragmede on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:25AM (#48904141)
The limit is two. You are not allowed to run more than two macOS VMs. Also Tart VMs have problems with signing into icloud and other things that need a real secureID enclave.
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