Best VM for running macOS

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  • quickemu

    Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.

    I have done it with QEMU/KVM with VMM to manage. For something easier to setup, I recently ran across this project which looks pretty interesting. https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

  • 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.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • unlocker

    VMware Workstation macOS

    For me, Vmware Player ran the smoothest. For this you need the following, because virtualization of MacOS on non-MacOs devices is not supported by Vmware: https://github.com/paolo-projects/unlocker.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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