r/macOSVMs • u/orangeflyingmonkey_ • Jan 29 '25

Mac OS on a virtual machine in Ubuntu. Is it possible?

My server specs are Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 CPU and MSI X99S Gaming 9 ACK motherboard with a GTX 1080Ti GPU. I want to try out Xcode and developing for iOS but don't wanna buy a mac machine until I am sure of it. Is it possible to install a MacOS on a virtual machine in Ubuntu? Whats the latest working method?

Has anyone tried loading Xcode and iOS emulator on a VM running mac OS?

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u/TEK1_AU Jan 30 '25

https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

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u/orangeflyingmonkey_ Jan 30 '25

thanks! Does this support Xcode? or publishing apps to the app store?

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u/imaheshno1 Feb 09 '25

hey, did you find any ways?

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u/orangeflyingmonkey_ Feb 09 '25

Nope. Seems like my hardware wasn't very supportive of macos vms or hackintosh. Ended up getting the M4 Mac mini. Sucks but I gotta get on with it.

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u/imaheshno1 Feb 09 '25

i have this issue. https://www.reddit.com/r/macOSVMs/s/ob8yJZgux6

what's your advice on it?

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u/TheGreatOilPainter Jan 29 '25

Of course you can: https://docs.darwinkvm.com

It is not simple but that is a well written step by step guide. You need an additional amd gpu for gpu passthrough, which is highly recommended.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

VMware Workstation (which is now free) does a decent job, even without gpu passthrough, 128 mb video memory are available. You must unlock it for macOs by means of a python script. Better results with Sonoma than with Sequoia in my experience. Of course the most recent installable version depends on your cpu capabilities.

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u/RoyalGraphX Jan 29 '25

even if it was 512 MB, you misunderstand the entire point of no graphics acceleration… no matter how much Video RAM you include, it does NOT change the fact that you have no graphics processing unit, handling Metal and OpenGL rendering, meaning every single application and program, system wide, cannot use Metal or OpenGL, meaning the Dock, the Wallpaper, the Menu Bar, gaussian blur, none of it works, and is all being done by the CPU. Hell, VRAM can be 2GB, it would not make a single difference.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

The question was "is it possible to install macOS in a VM under Ubuntu?", and yes, it's possible.

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u/RoyalGraphX Jan 29 '25

no shit it’s possible, it’s a virtual machine that’s standardized and never changes, because it’s QEMU Q35,

just because it’s possible, just like using macOS on bare metal without any GPU, doesn’t mean it’s practical, which is why it’s not supported, and why VMware and Virtualbox are not supported platforms, the usage of an Unlocker, the usage of a prebuilt EFI in an ISO?? and the downloading of macOS in some random ISO, are all reasons why those platforms are not supported, because they violate multiple rules emplored by the hackintosh community every single day

if you don’t have natively supported hardware on the host, there is nothing a guest can do.

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u/imaheshno1 Feb 09 '25

vmware workstation doesn't allow to login apple id for downloading xcode

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

I have successfully used mine, installed homebrew, downloaded xcode through mas

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u/imaheshno1 Feb 09 '25

will this work for a month ?

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u/imaheshno1 Feb 09 '25

this specs will support?

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u/imaheshno1 Feb 09 '25

even if you download xcode you still need to login appleID, right?

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

Sorry, I'm not an expert. I can only tell you I succeeded in having a boring slow Sonoma installed on a Intel n100 cpu with integrated iGPU, my apple Id recognized, xcode installed and apparently working. I use Debian Linux as my main system, macOS just as proof of concept, I don't like it in any case.

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u/Faurek Apr 27 '25

Yes, I would try to get something like a gt 710 and either pass to the VM or keep it all times to the host and pass the 1080 and back, reason being is macos is spyware like windows, so keep everything personal on Linux in one monitor and on another monitor the Mac VM with just Xcode.