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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderI've been running my macOS desktop in an ESXi VM for over a year now. I came from a hackintosh, but got tired of the fragility of some upgrades. Some notes on this setup: - Apple supports macOS running inside of ESXi. Officially, only on Apple host hardware (i.e. a Mac Pro, which is on the ESXi compatibility list). Apple even ships a VMXNet3 network driver in macOS. - For ESXi specifically, you have to patch the host to boot…
I tried doing this the other day, hoping that I would finally be able to get a working OSX setup on my desktop (have made several attempts with no success at getting it working bare-metal on my Z600). Sadly it just ended with more kernel panics, something I was hoping would be avoided as I got the impression from some sources that QEMU was a more straightforward solution than trying to run it on bare-metal. Having said that, I've been…
This looks new-ish, but I remember seeing something about OSX on KVM years ago. The author's name seems familiar for some reason, however. Found it, the same repo linked in August 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17763855 And September 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12556609 Apparently the version control model of the repo is ‘scrap everything once in a while’.
Definitely a little bit messy, but it seems to work. Usually I stick to my MacBook Pro M1 and am not too fond of Hackintosh stuff, but I wanted to run a macOS VM on my Linux desktop and tried out the OP link. The install was a bit slow so I went for a walk. When I came back the screen of the VM was black. But after rebooting it, and selecting the volume where I installed macOS, it…
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-22 | OS X-KVM: Running Mac OS X El Capitan on KVM and QEMUFirst breakout | tambourine_man | 185 | 89 |
| 2018-08-15 | Osx-kvm: Run macOS on QEMU/KVMBest thread | axiomdata316 | 299 | 106 |
| 2020-12-31 | OS X-KVM: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM. With OpenCore and Big Sur Support Now | based2 | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-11-11 | Run macOS on QEMU/KVM. With OpenCore, Big Sur, Monterey Support | codetrotter | 5 | 1 |
| 2021-12-03 | OS X-KVM: Run macOS on QEMU/KVMHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | kristianp | 166 | 70 |
| 2024-06-02 | Make a Mac OS virtual machine | miloliki | 1 | 0 |