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Logic Pro X on a Virtual Machine
Hoping this is the right subreddit for this question -
I produce music, own a Macbook Pro, and as a result own Logic Pro X. I recently built my own PC, and I would like to (if possible) utilize the better hardware for production. I loosely looked into dual booting, but from what I could tell the consensus was "don't do it." My next idea was a virtual machine to run OS X through windows, and I have a couple of issues:
Can I run Logic Pro X on a virtual machine like Virtual Box or VMWare?
If I can, will it still provide better performance than my Macbook Pro or will the VM limit my computer's capabilities? (I'll put the specs of each at the bottom of this post so it isn't too dense up here)
Generally speaking, I'm open to trying anything reasonable to run Logic (mostly so I don't have to spend another hundreds of dollars on a Windows-capable DAW). Thank you for any help you can give!
PC Specs:
3.6 GHz Ryzen 5 3600, 16 GB DDR4 3200 RAM, RX 590 (8GB VRAM)
Macbook Pro (Early 2015) Specs:
3.1 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB DDR3 1867 RAM, Integrated Iris Graphics 6100 (1536 MB VRAM)
Can’t answer about vm performance but dual booting is possible and not an issue if done right. Don’t know where you got that info.
Logic Pro X relies heavily on hardware acceleration, it will hardly function at all in a virtual machine.
Get a UAD interface for your MacBook instead of flickering with that.
Wouldn’t even try vm. Just dual boot. It’s not that hard. At the start just don’t plug in the windows drive. When all done with hackintosh insert a windows drive you want to use and a bootable usb. After install boot from your boot loader and you should see the windows drive as well. Not hard at all but worth it because then you’ll experience macOS fully.
Hey what was the solution you came up with?
Nope. I tried it some years ago, and it didn't go well.. I could open the program itself, but it was very, very, very laggy. Even tho my VM had like 8GB and 4 cores. After some research then, i found out that it relies heavily on hardware acceleration (like u/Keyed_ said).
And also, dual booting MacOS and Windows is a lot easier than going through all the VM crap. Most of the downloadable virtual disks are some kind of Niresh shit. And trust me, you really don't want that!
Yeah that makes sense! I'll do some research (and use this subreddit) to work out dual-booting instead. Thank you for the help!
Try a Linux KVM
