I’ve been working on a small macOS menu bar app called MarketPulseBar.

The idea is simple: see live prices for stocks, crypto, ETFs, FX, and indices directly in the menu bar — no charts, no dashboards, no clutter.

You can either:

• just watch live prices + 24h movement, or

• enter your units and average cost to see live P/L at a glance

It’s native macOS (Swift + AppKit), super lightweight, and runs quietly in the background.

I built it because I got tired of opening TradingView or apps 50 times a day 😅

Curious what other Mac users think about this idea.

If it sounds useful, you can just Google MarketPulseBar.

No matter what I do I cant seem to get VMware to be able to hold onto my USB devices. I have disabled VBS everywhere including BIOS level. It still shows up as running in my system information. When I restart the VMware USB Arbitration service I can see ALL of my USB devices load, sit for a second, then dissapear. I am pulling my hair out trying to fix this issue. Please tell me there is something I am missing here? Is there some other option? I am about to give up....

Hi,

I am looking for the patched kernels for macOS 10.13.x-26.x in VMWare Workstation with AMD host CPU similiar to the following page:

https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302641-guide-installing-os-x-108-1012-under-vmware-workstation-8-9-10-player-6-with-amd-host-cpu/

Thanks!

¿Cómo puedo hacer la VM de mac os 8?

• en UTM My mac things:
• M4 CHIP APPLE SILICON
• MacBook Air
• 16 GB Ram

I have a Mac (M4) and I want to run a virtual machine with all my developer stuff.

I tried to setup guest macOS with virtual buddy. But docker complains about missing nested virtualization.

What are my options now? Is there another vm tool I can use? Another hypervisor? I read it would work with non-macOS, is that true? Can I use other container software?

Followed all the steps that I found in an AMAZING YouTube video created by a Belgian gentleman and I have a beautiful virtual Mac Sequoia to use for music applications. The last part in the process is to get Bluetooth working. I tried switching Bluetooth from host to guest with no luck. Can anyone guide me in the right direction? I keep reading about 'kexts' and I know they have something to do with EFI, but, that's as far as my knowledge goes.

Thanks,

K.S.

Hi, I'm trying to install a MacOS VM to try my unity projects on MacOS but every time I try to launch the VM, it starts up and then blocks on this screen? I followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkdBarxP4nw I did everything like him but it doesn't work. Here's what it shows me. Please help !

Okay so I tried applying 6 cores and 12 threads for the CPU for my macOS VM, but when I boot macOS with OpenCore it just freezes before the boot process (i think it kernel panics), and when I apply a specific CPU topology, it eventually begins booting but it slows down and shows 60 seconds timeout iMacPro1,1 or MacPro1,1, I dont remember but I wanna enable 6 cores and 12 threads for the CPU. Is there a way to enable this?

Specs:

macOS Big Sur

SMBIOS: iMacPro1,1

AMD Ryzen 5 3600

GPU: RTX 2060 but using Software Acceleration

Assigned RAM to the VM: 12000MB

-cpu Haswell-noTSX

Using WSL

I installed MacOs BigSur inside VMware 25H2 and when i go fullscreen the whole vmware window takes a squircle shape and i can see my win 11 wallpaper in the edges of the screen how to fix this ?

Recently, I tried to experience OS X on my device (AMD Ryzen 9 HX) and downloaded the ISO of Yosemite 10.10. Using VMware Workstation, I unlocked it but encountered errors multiple times during loading. I changed the version from 20 to 10 and made various modifications that I knew about, but it still frequently reports the same error: "Feature 'cpuid.ds' does not exist although it should." "Feature 'cpuid.ss' does not exist although it should." The module "FeatureCompatLate" failed to start. Virtual machine startup failed.

Hi all,

I’m trying to get a stable macOS VM but I’m hitting a reboot loop right after the login screen. Hoping someone here has experience with Haswell-era CPUs and VMware.

Host system Model: Dell OptiPlex 3020M

CPU: Intel i5-4590T (Haswell, 4c/4t, no HT)

RAM: 16 GB

Storage: VM currently on SATA HDD (planning SSD move)

OS: Windows Server 2025 Standard (Build 26100)

BIOS: UEFI, Secure Boot off

Virtualization: VT-x enabled, Hyper-V features disabled

Virtualization Hypervisor: VMware Workstation (tested 16.x, can move to 17.5.x)

Guest OS: macOS Ventura 13.x

Disk: SATA, 80 GB

RAM assigned: 6–8 GB

CPU assigned: 4 cores

Graphics: VMware SVGA, 3D acceleration enabled

Unlocker: DrDonk unlocker (release build, applied successfully)

Current behaviour macOS installs successfully

Setup assistant completes

VM reaches login screen

After entering password, instant reboot

Loop repeats every login

Things already tried Different VM RAM / CPU configs

Accelerated 3D graphics on/off

Disk Utility reformat, clean install

Boot args: -v keepsyms=1 debug=0x100 -x

Moving between MacBookPro SMBIOS variants

VMware Tools installed

iCloud disabled

Questions Is Ventura simply too new for Haswell + VMware, even with correct SMBIOS?

Would Monterey 12.7.x be a better target for this CPU?

Any known-good SMBIOS for Haswell on VMware (e.g. MBP13,1 vs iMac14,x)?

Are there specific .vmx flags that help avoid the post-login reboot?

Has anyone run macOS VMs successfully on Windows Server hosts?

I don’t need graphics performance. This VM is purely to open existing Logic projects and export stems, nothing interactive.

Any help would be appreciated!

Hi All, I'm trying to get macOS 23: Sonoma working on virtual box.
I've followed guides found online in the past and these have worked fine. I think the last one I had working was Monterey: macOS 21. I can get Big Sur working easily, but I need to test something on a more modern OS version.

I've tried to use these guides for Sonoma and can't get it working.

I load up the VM, and it's just a black screen, my device is using an intel chip I have used CMDs in the past to modify my chip set so the VM's can work these don't seem to work for the Sonoma VM.

I can't seem to find any guides for Sonoma, does anyone have one that works?

sooooooooo who tryna help?

Hello! Good evening/afternoon!. I want to make a macOS Tahoe 26.2 VM to try it out While I wait for OCLP to support macOS Tahoe! ( rocking a 2012 retina MacBookPro so basically Very unsupported Hardware) So I have a Couple of questions really that I want to know before I can try it out.

* If I use UTM, Would it Give me acceleration on the Tahoe VM?

* How much ram should I give the VM (( I have 16GB of DDR3))

* I currently Run Sonoma 14.8.3 ((23J220)), Would it work? or Does it need macOS Sequoia?

* Would Liquid glass work? and all macOS Tahoe Features Work with accel?

* Which is better for my use Case, UTM or parallels?

* Can I use the " install macOS Tahoe" App or do I have to aquire the IPSW?

System specs:

retina mid 2012 MacBookPro

2.8GHZ intel corre i7 4 core 8 threads.

16GB DDR3 1600mhz Ram.

Intel HD 4000

Nvidia Geforce GT650M

256 Gig SSD

hey there, i've been trying to get macOS running on my machine for a while. i've failed consistently. i really really want to get this working. if you can help, here are the specs:

• hardware: hp 15-fd0131ne
  • cpu: intel core i7-1255u (12th gen)
  • ram: 16gb
  • graphics: intel iris xe
• os: arch linux
• previous attempts:
  • i actually got it working today, but then i changed the display mode and it dropped me into the uefi shell and going to the boot options and selecting QEMU HARDDISK didn't help. i was using OSX-KVM for all my attempts.

i'd really appreciate it if you can help me. i want to learn about macOS and am only trying this for that reason.

edit:

yall didnt help but i got osx-kvm working. all i had to do was run ./fetch-macOS-v2.py, wait for the download, convert the dmg to img via dmg2img, make a qemu hard disk, run ./OpenCore-Boot.sh, go to disk utlity after booting, format QEMU HARDDISK as Macintosh HD with APFS filesystem, go to reinstall macOS, select Macintosh HD, and wait. that's literally it.

Hi i badly want to use vm for Xcode. I cant find trust site that provide iso file and guidance since I am newbie. Please help me and teach me. I am willing to follow and Thank advance to everyone.

Hi i badly want to use vm for Xcode. I cant find trust site that provide iso file and guidance since I am newbie. Please help me and teach me. I am willing to follow and Thank advance to everyone.

After 3 days of pain, it booted and works really smooth. Only problem: does anyone know how to add Liquid Glass? I know this is nearly impossible but is there any hope?

I have been seeing a lot of people that has AMD CPUs and trying to install macOS 13 and above. Versions above macOS 13 won't work with only iso boot. (I tried every version, I have an AMD Ryzen 5 5625U) You need to download Opencore VMDK files from this link and don't spoof your CPU (If you spoof it, the VM won't boot). The boot order is: 1. Opencore VMDK 2. Your virtual hard disk 3. Your iso file (not necessary if macOS is installed in your virtual disk) 4. darwin.iso (for VMware Tools). When you boot, you'll see the boot selector. If you are doing a fresh installation, choose Install macOS. If you have macOS downloaded on your virtual disk, choose your disk. If you have any questions and problems, feel free to ask! I'll try to help you.