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A hackintosh is quite different from running macOS in a VM. And even if you wait “a few days” you are part of such a small group of users that you know very lit
by stefanfisk 8y ago
A hackintosh is quite different from running macOS in a VM. And even if you wait “a few days” you are part of such a small group of users that you know very little about how you might be affected.
- GeekyBear 8y agoThe blogger in question wanted to be able to run MacOS on cheap standard hardware. A Hackintosh on bare metal and running in a virtual machine both allow them to do exactly that. If you visit the link to the Hackintosh community provided above you will find plenty of information from Hackintosh users who have already installed the various system updates and even beta OS releases.
- stefanfisk 8y agoI’ve done the hackintosh thing, and I might do it again someday, but as far as I can tell it is nowhere near as smooth as running officially sanctioned hardware. And regarding running macOS in a VM, so you mean with PCI passthrough? Because AFAIK there are no drivers for virtualized graphics.
- GeekyBear 8y agoIf you build a machine using components that leverage the drivers built into the OS you can bypass those problems. That's why sites like the one given above are so helpful in the process. They list the specific components that are known for worry free operation. It's like building a Windows NT machine back in the day. You have to stick with components that are known to work with Apple's drivers, likely because Apple has used that same component in one of it's own computers.