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Took a little while to find the magic words in there: https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu/blob/af26f41440d63a0...
Just install proxmox on a mac mini or old mac pro and run macos VMs
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Are you passing in a second GPU to the VM using VFIO? Otherwise I don't believe graphics will be accelerated.
Sadly no, my Ryzen doesn't have an iGPU and I only have the one dedicated GPU. VMware's software? acceleration is partially useful however, there are some bugs requiring disabling transparency in Windows but various Direct X programs run mostly acceptably. I find it the best performing of the 3 setups when using GPU passthrough is not available.
Certainly, however, this can be handy if one needs to quickly spin up something.
Why? I’m happy with Vagrant (libvirt/VirtualBox), Multipass and LXD (also provides secreboot + UEFI VMs + USB redirection). No need for another tool.
Vagrant depends on premade boxes normally built with packer.
This tool is much more convenient
Took a little while to find the magic words in there: https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu/blob/af26f41440d63a0...
I always wondered how is it stealing if you (1) own a copy and, (2) Apple effectively stopped charging money for macOS.
If you don't own a Mac, you don't own macOS. If you own a Mac and some other computer(s), you own macOS for the Mac, but not for the computer(s). You might've purchased an upgrade to a newer version of macOS, but if you don't already own a Mac, you don't have something to upgrade, so the upgrade doesn't grant you ownership of macOS.
Now, from a legal point of view, it's a good deal different from (and more complicated than) that, but that's the basic idea. So don't make the mistake of thinking that because Apple gives macOS away for free to Mac owners, and don't use elaborate and onerous copy protection or license-tracking nonsense, that you're entitled to install it on something other than a Mac.
What I would really like to exist, is a VM image for Windows 10, without all the telemetry, updates and anti-virus software. I hate that when I need to test something on IE, my laptop's fans start spinning up, and the VM is unusable, because Microsoft decided its a good time to scan the whole disk and consume all the vCPUs allocated to the vm.
Read from other posts that a win10 ameliorated unofficial build exist. Seems functional and depends on how much you trust the guys behind it. (or compile your own) https://ameliorated.info/ Another option is to buy a ltsc win10 license (if you can find it cheap online)
I use the Windows Insider program to run legitimate Windows, and used a bunch of debloat/decrapify programs from Github to try to remove the worst offenders. But damn does Windows Defender and some of the other stuff really ream my resources, and there doesn't seem to be any easy way of permanently disabling them =(
I'd never heard of an "LTSC" Windows either. Interesting.
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EDIT: Ahh it says there's no support for DirectX12, only Vulkan?
I don't know much about this stuff -- I thought it was a software SDK you could just install. But if not, that seems like a pretty huge con:
https://wiki.ameliorated.info/doku.php?id=faq#is_directx_12_...
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It seems to be grabbing the MacOS system recovery images straight off of Apple's servers.
Which, without some form of certificate pinning, could still be MITM'd. At least if there's a catalogue of hashes for everything it downloads (hard-coded or configurable by the user, latter preferred) then at least it can verify the right files are being downloaded regardless of source.
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Can't the emulator just patch out the code that checks for that string?
That would likely need to be built for every version of MacOS that's ever been made, it's easier to emulate the hardware and provide the key it's looking for. That part alone shouldn't violate any ToS or laws on it's own, as long as the key isn't provided by the emulator/vendor. That will still allow you to still virtualize MacOS on the actual hardware (as is required by the license of the OS) without having a hacky…
I want to run many old windows [95 - XP] applications and games. If there is a way to have minimal os emulator (at least with all dependencies of that app/game) it would be great to have it as a container for that app. I tried setting up qemu once by downloading many images. Almost none worked with apps I wanted to run. Also I had a very hard time finding a sane qemu documentation in one place. It's wiki is very mess…