alchemy vs macos-virtualbox

alchemy

An experimental GUI framework for Rust, backed by per-platform native widgets. React, AppKit/UIKit inspired. EXPERIMENTAL, runs on Cocoa right now. ;P (by ryanmcgrath)

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macos-virtualbox

Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS (by myspaghetti)

MacOS macos-installer Virtualbox virtualbox-efi bash-script macos-virtual-machine

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alchemy		macos-virtualbox
	Project
3	Mentions	54
385	Stars	13,422
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	5.3
about 4 years ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
Rust	Language	Shell
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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alchemy

Posts with mentions or reviews of alchemy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-13.

GitHub - ryanmcgrath/cacao: Rust bindings for AppKit (macOS) and UIKit (iOS/tvOS). Experimental, but working!
4 projects | /r/rust | 13 May 2023

1) This was started years ago back when SwiftUI had, frankly, a mountain of problems. I originally did the seeds of this work when building out Alchemy, a React clone for cross-platform apps in Rust. I sunset that project due to personal issues in my life at the time (relative dying) which had destroyed my motivation/time. I ultimately chose to extract the codebase and make cacao since it filled a necessary niche in the ecosystem.
Proof of concept: iOS app written in pure Rust
7 projects | /r/rust | 8 Nov 2021

Ah, yes - though I think we're still ultimately after the same thing. Cacao, while it tries to unify AppKit/UIKit APIs, more or less treats UIKit APIs as the "blessed" ones. A good example is the ListView component, which pretty much limits an NSTableView to the style and such that you'd find over on UITableView. cacao just has more working AppKit code due to it being originally the basis for alchemy.
What’s everyone working on this week (16/2021)?
10 projects | /r/rust | 19 Apr 2021

Oh cool! Glad to hear it - I experimented with VDOM stuff long ago back in alchemy and considered returning to it at some point, but if someone else does it... well, it'd be hella cool.

macos-virtualbox

Posts with mentions or reviews of macos-virtualbox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-15.

I need to create a virtual machine on my windows that runs macos
1 project | /r/applesucks | 18 Jun 2023
How can I read the contents of a iMac backup from a Time Capsule on a Windows 10 pc
1 project | /r/applehelp | 3 Jun 2023

I think VMware is the simplest way to go, but it looks like VirtualBox will do up to macOS Catalina if using this script.
Help with macOS Monterey on Virtualbox
1 project | /r/zorinos | 4 May 2023
Create a VM in Virtualbox, github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox failed
1 project | /r/hackintosh | 1 Mar 2023

From a Linux box, I try to create a hackintosh VM in Virtualbox, I tried https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox/blob/master/macos-guest-virtualbox.sh but the boot hangs on `UEFI shell`:
Help setting up macOS VM on Windows 10 Laptop
1 project | /r/virtualmachine | 30 Dec 2022

I've tested this script. It doesn't support the latest versions, but it worked
Geneious instantly crashing on Mac OS Monterey 12.6 - Help
2 projects | /r/bioinformatics | 15 Dec 2022
lightest weight VM to just run iMessage
2 projects | /r/macOSVMs | 7 Dec 2022

I installed myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox and it's running fine (except still having issues with new apple accounts logging into imessage, old ones work fine).
macOS virtual box on shit computer or steam deck?
1 project | /r/virtualization | 25 Nov 2022
Is it possible to run Mac OS on a hypervisor?
1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 11 Oct 2022
[question] Do y'all know how to downgrade iPhone 3,3 to iOS 6???
1 project | /r/LegacyJailbreak | 18 Sep 2022

Personally, I have found this helpful to set up macOS VMs on real Macs.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing alchemy and macos-virtualbox you can also consider the following projects:

senile - Collecting todo statements from code because we usually either ignore or forget about them.

UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

prost - PROST! a Protocol Buffers implementation for the Rust Language

macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.

common_comments - Simply counts occurrences of phrases.

lima - Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

evdi - Extensible Virtual Display Interface

colima - Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

uikit-sys - Rust Bindings for the iOS UIKit Objective-C framework

OSX-KVM - Run macOS on QEMU/KVM. With OpenCore + Monterey + Ventura + Sonoma support now! Only commercial (paid) support is available now to avoid spammy issues. No Mac system is required.

giganotes-core

osx-serial-generator - Mac Serial Generator - Generate complete sets of Serial Numbers for OSX-KVM, Docker-OSX and of course, OpenCore.