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i'm curious, do a lot of people run this setup? does the overhead of running in vm for your daily tasks worth it?
by raihansaputra 10y ago
i'm curious, do a lot of people run this setup? does the overhead of running in vm for your daily tasks worth it?
- Const-me 10y agoI was running OSX in VMWare every day for a couple of years, did iOS development. With 8 GB RAM and fast Intel SSD in my Windows laptop, the VM was faster then hardware MacBooks I saw. Modern hardware-assisted virtualization is very efficient, BTW that's exactly what allowed those cloud computing.
- Ezhik 10y agoDoesn't VMware have really lacking graphics support? I remember Yosemite and on with their fancy effects are barely usable.
- Const-me 10y agoVmWare’s virtualized 3D accelerated GPU is IMO very good. Not sure about compatibility with the recent OSX, though. I used lion and mountain lion, and those worked well. AFAIR I’ve used vmware tools from Fusion.
- raihansaputra 10y agoif i knew a few weeks ago i would probably think a bit more of buying another macbook. osx allows vm installs?
- Const-me 10y agoTechnically yes. Not sure about the latest OSX, but when I used that, everything worked fine for me. Legally no. VM or not, the real hardware needs to be made by Apple.
- raihansaputra 10y agono need to tweak kexts like you do with a hackintosh?
- Const-me 10y agoNo need to tweak kexts. In the host machine, you need reasonably fast Intel CPU, hardware-assisted virtualization enabled in BIOS/UEFI, enough RAM, also unofficial VMWare patch to unlock OSX guests on PC hosts. In the guest OS, you need VMWare tools for OSX, they exist because VMWare supports OSX guests when running on OSX hosts.