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Stop asking how to virtualize MacOS on Windows. Your post WILL be removed
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I'm seeing more and more posts asking about how to virtualize MacOS on Windows using "vmware" (a.k.a. VMware Workstation).
This violates the rules of the sub and is a MacOS/Apple EULA violation. Discussions of "Hackintosh" and other methods to virtualize MacOS on non-Apple hardware will be removed. Period.
Discussions of how to go find out how to do it elsewhere fall into this category as well.
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Is that even technically possible? If it is, I’m quite surprised. Oh wait, hmmmm…is that question against the rules? Oops.
Seriously. Now I want to try it.
I did it once. It was slow as all get out. Dedicated 16gb of ram and an SSD data store. I wasn’t impressed.
MacOS is a HEAVY beast of an OS compared to Windows. It does not hold back, if Google Chrome and MacOS were fighting it out for food MacOS would win hands down and leave Google looking like an amateur at gaining access to resources. :D:D
Zero, not nothing can use resources like a MacOS can. I got 575 processes running and I formatted 3 days ago. :D
That being said, it runs so beautifully with the 2.5k hardware shipped from any shiny Apple Store. & those visual effects are just beautiful to look at.
What's next for it? Imma bet - stack on some more resource heavy graphics. Make it more shiny and visual like a giant iPad. Probably add on some animated wallpapers that are 3D and use resources 24/7 as the default, out of the box... Oh wait, damn - they gone and done that already! :D
The irony is the fastest Windows system I've ever ran, is on Bootcamp on Mac Hardware. Damn that thing flies.
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This sub isn't even that busy. Why does it matter if a question gets asked repeatedly?
fuck the EULA. it's my machine and my installation CD. i'll do what i want with it.
I don't care, I'm gonna do it anyway
I'm the mod of r/virtualization and we have the exact same rule. No discussion of MacOS virtualization on Non-Apple Hardware. Why? Because the majority of the time the issue their posting about isn't actually due to an issue with virtualization but something wrong with their "Hackintosh" setup. It ranges from them having screwed something up with OpenCore or the random VMDK they downloaded from Github is missing something so iMessage or whatever doesn't work. I don't want to sit and troubleshoot your shit and read complaints of the same thing over and over.
When put into this context, I can see your point. But is it really such a problem? Once people port about problems past the hypervisor (like your iMessage example), couldn't you just point them to one of the several r/hackintosh subs?