Help offered (macOS VMs)

Ruben Di Battista rubendibattista at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 08:41:33 UTC 2021


I'm also very slowly working on this (the `slowly` is PhD related) and I
was targeting KVM. I'll probably give a try also to Hyper-V since I started
using Windows 11 with WSL for development.

You can probably search in the list posts from me where we discussed this a
bit in details.

On Tue, 7 Sep 2021, 10:09 Bjarne D Mathiesen, <macintosh at mathiesen.info>
wrote:

> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> > 5.) We're looking for someone willing to play around with macOS VMs,
> > in particular the older ones: 10.6 (or even 10.4/10.5 for utter geeks)
> > and newer. We currently run CI jobs just on what GitHub provides (2 or
> > 3 latest OSes), but it would be nice to set up disposable VMs where we
> > could fire up a VM, build the ports from CI, and destroy the VM.
>
> What hypervisor it the target ?
>
> I have tried to get a 10.6.8 to work in VirtualBox; but
> 1) it kept crashing
> 2) I couldn't get it to up the RAM above 2GB
>    even though some mac systems ran 10.6 up to at least 8GB
>
> --
> Bjarne D Mathiesen
> Korsør ; Danmark ; Europa
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> denne besked er skrevet i et totalt M$-frit miljø
> MacPro 2010 ; OpenCore + macOS 10.15.7 Catalina
> 2 x 3,46 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon ; 256 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC RDIMM
> ATI Radeon RX 590 8 GB
>
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