I recently came across Quickemu:
https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
It's a wrapper for QEMU that facilitates the creation of VMs including multiple Linux distros, Windows verions and MacOS versions. It even downloads the ISOs for you. It would be nice to have it in the Fedora repos (licensing terms permitting).
poc
On 2/25/25 5:12 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I recently came across Quickemu:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_quickemu-2Dp...
It's a wrapper for QEMU that facilitates the creation of VMs including multiple Linux distros, Windows verions and MacOS versions. It even downloads the ISOs for you. It would be nice to have it in the Fedora repos (licensing terms permitting).
This is neat. Have you tried it out yet? I'm adding it to my to-do list as we speak.
-slade
On Tue, 2025-02-25 at 17:50 -0500, Slade Watkins wrote:
On 2/25/25 5:12 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I recently came across Quickemu:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_quickemu-2Dp...
It's a wrapper for QEMU that facilitates the creation of VMs including multiple Linux distros, Windows verions and MacOS versions. It even downloads the ISOs for you. It would be nice to have it in the Fedora repos (licensing terms permitting).
This is neat. Have you tried it out yet? I'm adding it to my to-do list as we speak.
Yes, I've tried a few VMs and it seems to work, though the MacOS ones have trouble starting (blank screen and no kb or mouse interaction after the initial splash screen).
poc
On 2/26/2025 7:07 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
This is neat. Have you tried it out yet? I'm adding it to my to-do list as we speak.
Yes, I've tried a few VMs and it seems to work, though the MacOS ones have trouble starting (blank screen and no kb or mouse interaction after the initial splash screen).
That's par for the course for macOS virtualization, unfortunately. Apple does not like VMs, it is against the EULA to run a macOS VM on anything other than a real Mac. There are ways around it, but you won't have graphics acceleration or working drivers (kexts/DriverKit) on a VM unless you put in the work.
-slade
On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 15:57 -0500, Slade Watkins wrote:
On 2/26/2025 7:07 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
This is neat. Have you tried it out yet? I'm adding it to my to-do list as we speak.
Yes, I've tried a few VMs and it seems to work, though the MacOS ones have trouble starting (blank screen and no kb or mouse interaction after the initial splash screen).
That's par for the course for macOS virtualization, unfortunately. Apple does not like VMs, it is against the EULA to run a macOS VM on anything other than a real Mac. There are ways around it, but you won't have graphics acceleration or working drivers (kexts/DriverKit) on a VM unless you put in the work.
I'm aware of that. Not a big deal.
poc
On 2/26/25 3:57 PM, Slade Watkins wrote:
On 2/26/2025 7:07 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
This is neat. Have you tried it out yet? I'm adding it to my to-do list as we speak.
Yes, I've tried a few VMs and it seems to work, though the MacOS ones have trouble starting (blank screen and no kb or mouse interaction after the initial splash screen).
That's par for the course for macOS virtualization, unfortunately. Apple does not like VMs, it is against the EULA to run a macOS VM on anything other than a real Mac. There are ways around it, but you won't have graphics acceleration or working drivers (kexts/DriverKit) on a VM unless you put in the work.
-slade
The more recent releases have a check to ensure that they are running on apple hardware. Ventura which I think was the last Intel version runs with few problems. Upgrades to Sequoia have not worked.
On Thu, 2025-02-27 at 14:05 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
The more recent releases have a check to ensure that they are running on apple hardware. Ventura which I think was the last Intel version runs with few problems. Upgrades to Sequoia have not worked.
Ventura didn't work either. As with other versions there is no error message. I get a boot screen and on selecting an option it just goes black and nothing happens.
As I say, no big deal.
poc
On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM Robert McBroom via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
The more recent releases have a check to ensure that they are running on apple hardware. Ventura which I think was the last Intel version runs with few problems. Upgrades to Sequoia have not worked.
Well, honestly the big issue is no graphics acceleration. If you don't have graphics drivers on macOS, the experience is subpar at best.
There isn't acceleration in a macOS VM and not having that causes some wacky issues unfortunately.
-slade
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