Help offered (macOS VMs)

[Blake Garner]

Is there a reason macports would not use VMware Fusion for x86 versions? It
has the best macOS support and I'm sure that macports could get some
licenses as needed for free. For PPC I have had good luck with qemu in the
past.

On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 1:41 AM Ruben Di Battista <rubendibattista at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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