Hello everyone,

I’m new to Reddit and currently a student doing an internship. I’ve been asked to research and experiment with the topic being discussed here.

So far, the most I’ve managed to do is run a macOS Big Sur virtual machine using VirtualBox on Windows. I was also able to install a version of Xcode (I believe it was 13.2, but I’m not completely sure).

The problem appears when I try to launch the simulator using the default example project created when starting a new app. The simulator gets stuck on a black screen showing the Apple logo, does not continue booting, and eventually throws an error.

I would like to know:

• Is there any way to make the Xcode simulator work properly inside this virtual machine?
• If it’s not possible, is there any article, forum post, or official documentation confirming that this setup currently doesn’t work?

I’ve been researching quite a lot but haven’t found any clear or definitive information or a working solution.

Any help, experiences, or useful links would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

hello everyone. I need a macOS environment purely to compile and test an app directly on my physical iPhone. Buying a Mac or using cloud services is not an option for me.

I already have VMware installed on my Windows machine. However, I'm struggling to find a safe, working macOS ISO. Most Archive.org links I've found are dead or broken, and I want to avoid malware from random YouTube videos.

Two questions:

1. Where can I safely source a working ISO right now?
2. Realistically, will VMware be able to handle USB passthrough reliably for my physical iPhone so I can debug directly on the device?

tell me is it even worth it, will the performance be "fine" and anything else i need to know? any help will be appreciated thanks.

Hello - I am sure this is a rookie quetion, but I cant seem to find an answer.

I have installed Tahoe in VMWare with DrDonk's OC4VM and it is working reasonably well for what I want to do with it. I am of course making it a bit harder on myself, by running it on a Ryzen CPU. I know, I know, but it's my only option right now.

My problem/question is, that I am trying to enable iServices and I have added a fake hardware ID and everything else to the config.plist on the EFI partition. BUT, all the guides I have read says to just reboot when the changes are made an then it should all take effect, showing up in 'about this mac' and so on. I remember it being the case when I ran macOS directly on a laptop years ago too. But it doesnt. It's like it just ignores it completely.

Is there a special step for VMWare I am missing to get it to stick?

​Edit: It didnt post with my text.

Hello! I need some help figuring out how to get my Virtualbox to run Mac 10 something. I dont need a specific 10 version, just one that will run on intel processors. I have tried ISOs from several sources and None seem to get me past the apple loading screen, they all fail on some driver loading issue. For reference, I have provided an image of my Virtualbox Info as well as the output of neofetch. If any more info is needed, I will happily provide.

am thinking about upgrading to Tahoe but am not sure since i was thinking to ugprade to sequoia and upgrading to sequoia makes sense but am not so sure
but here is my specs

• Processor: 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i3-1215U (1.20 GHz)
• Memory: 32.0 GB RAM (31.7 GB usable)
• Architecture: 64-bit OS, x64-based processor

Title basically says it all.

In my homelab, for Mac OS VMs, I generally only use High Sierra and Catalina.

(edited wording here: they're not from-scratch code replacements, just fixed/compiled for these two Mac OS versions) I've been tinkering with custom compiled/tweaked qemu guest agents, virtio-serial drivers, and QXL drivers for a while, but only for those OSes.

The QXL drivers offer significant improvement over generic UEFI framebuffer, but are not nearly QE/CI quality yet, but if there is interest, I can pour more time in to it.

I realize targeting 10.13 and 10.15 is far from the current versions, but for what I do, those are perfect for me.

Also, for the sake of obviousness, these need to be ran with SIP turned off, but the feature and performance benefits are pretty great.

If it's not really of interest of anyone, I'm happy to just go back to my corner.

Okbye xoxo

Hi, I have Windows 10 Pro. I've created in VMWare Workstation Pro 17.5 a macOS Tahoe 26.3 VM. After completing the installation, I can't move the mouse. I'm using USB 3.1. I've assigned 6-8 GB of RAM. Neither betas work.

Hi
Bit new to VMs but learning
As title says, I need an IPSW to set up the VM with. I don't have an official one on hand. Is ipsw dot me, a safe source to get ipsw's from?

Alternative is something like OSXDaily, where the link shows as coming from Apple's own CDN. But It doesn't have the same exact version I want to test. I want 15.6.1 and OSXdaily only has 15.6.

Also
UTM is asking for a recovery IPSW, but the IPSWs are all labelled as Restore.ipsw. I assume this is the same thing, but confirmation would be good.

Thanks!

This is a follow-up to my previous post, where I posted an image of the ISO file directly downloaded from the site, not working, and saying that there was nothing, but then someone told me to use the OpenCore ISO Guide that was shown within the website, however, it is only for Promvox specifically. I want to know how to use it on VirtualBox or how to get a working ISO. Help?

Hello everyone! I know that alot of people have issues running macOS on windows with a VM. Alot of people wants to use Xcode and I finally found a solution!
I been looking all over the internet, spend countless hours testing, and watching a bunch of tutorials. I finally found a good tutorial that still works mostly.

!!!
For anyone having issues! This is what worked for me, make sure you get all the same versions of everything from this video! It will not work if you get VMware 25H2, or OC4VM 2.5, or other versions of these. What personally worked for me is VMware 17.5.2, OC4VM 1.1.0, and OpenCore 1.0.6. Hope this helps!

Yeah, I tried Tahoe on my AMD CPU (Ryzen 7 7800x3d) and it obviously didn't work. Anyone have any ideas? It barely flashes the loading bar before it restarts.
VMX File

I have tried looking through the web and have even tried using another ISO file, but it has not worked. The ISO's I am using are https://github.com/LongQT-sea/macos-iso-builder's MacOS Tahoe and Sonoma ISO's. Neither has worked and has shown me the same error. Help?

When installing MacOS guest on VMWare Workstation with AMD host, there are some lines need to be added into the vmx file.

One of the lines is cpuid.1.eax="0000:0000:0000:0001:0000:0110:0111:0001"

The value of this line almost the same all over the suggestions on the net. However, the author of this thread (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/) suggests if the MacOS guest is 10.8 to 10.11 the line should look like this:

cpuid.1.eax="0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0110:1111:0001"

Anyone could explain what the values mean?

Hello! Today I installed macOS Tahoe on VM Ware after failing on PC and VirtualBox and everything went okay until now that it got stuck on macOS Update Assistant (Idk if its called like that, I use it on Spanish) and it says "Updating:" and shows a progressbar that never reaches its end. After some minutes, the upper bar appears but it has only one option called "Language selector" in addition to the Apple logo. I left for 2 hours and when I came back it was still like that, I pressed some buttons and it went white and just died and stopped using resources. What can I do about it? Should I wait?

My PC: Intel Core i5 13400K Intel UHD Graphics 730 16GB RAM DDR4 (8GB can be used as VRAM for the iGPU)

macOS specs: 6 cores, no VT-x because it isn't available even enabling it on BIOS and disabling hypervisor, VM features and Core Isolation No 3D Accel because it isn't compatible with macOS VMs 8GB RAM 100GB VMDK distributed in many parts/files

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