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Anyone using MacOS on Virtual Machines? Thoughts and what are your use cases?

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So just buy a supported got for a hundred bucks. You typically need a second gpu to do pass through anyway since your system can’t share gpu among the two resources

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To compile my own React Native projects with XCode, I'm using Sequoia on VMWare.

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VMs used to be a good sandbox, but physical disks have been cheap forever that it's been better to just sandbox on an external USB drive.

There is one good use case for macOS on a VM. If you bemoan that you don't have a real Mac to get started with hackintosh, you can always create a macOS VM (VirtualBox natively supports macOS guest with no hack needed) and create a USB macOS installer.

How’s the graphic acceleration

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I use MacOs on a VmWare VM on my work PC so I can use iMessage during the day, without having to use my phone or have a MacBook nearby… it’s really convenient. I use Catalina on VMware Workstation Player 16.

I’ve been curious about this one too. I have a brand new 14th GEN I seven and a 4080 super I feel like it should be able to run macOS virtually so I don’t have to build a Macintosh or buy a Mac hopefully

Too much laggy & bugs.

Each time have to install VMware tool.

I use mine for a blue bubbles server

I used MacOS as a VM under Proxmox, with a passedthrouh RX570. I didn’t really have a use case for it, I just wanted to take the challenge to try it

Sonoma with rx570 and some other passthrugh stuff on AMD Proxmox. It is my 24h primary desktop.