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hackintoshes also support a killer feature that new Mac computers do not - nested virtualization

• nickpsecurity 3y ago
  Can you describe how you use that with what software packages?
  • moondev 3y ago
    A few examples: using vmware fusion provides an option to enable nested virtualization 1) running a windows vm from macos, and inside that windows vm you enable and use WSL2 or docker desktop. Both of those windows tools require nested virtualization 2) run a hypervisor such as esxi or proxmox as the vm OS, which in turn launches vms. Handy for simulating infra. 3) run a macos vm and inside that vm, install docker desktop for mac 4) experiment with any qemu/kvm tooling inside a linux vm, such as multipass or kubevirt Everything above is not possible on modern mac hardware but is on hackintosh
    • 3abiton 3y ago
      I want to say that's so cool, but why so manu vms are needed? Isn't possible to run all of this on hackintosh directly without VMception?
      • moondev 3y ago
        The ultimate setup is actually running esxi directly on the mac mini 2018 (6c/12t) and 64G DDR. Then esxi can launch as many macos, windows, linux and nested esxi vms as needed. 4 tb3 allows plenty of options for extra nvme or 10+ GbE nics. You can even passthrough the intel iGPU to linux and light up a monitor. Compare to a modern mac mini has a strict limit of 2 macos vms, no hyperthreading , no nested virt and CPU optimized for vertical integration.