Ask HN: As a Windows developer and user, can anyone recommend a Mac for testing?

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    Discontinued Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines. [Moved to: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu] (by wimpysworld)

  • For example you can use quickemu: https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu

    Haven't tried it with macOS myself, but it worked great for Windows.

  • 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.

  • Dual boot into a linux OS and run :

    https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

    The repo works well. Tweak the CPU cores and type for emulation. If you're running an Intel CPU you're pretty set as you wont be required to emulate as if you were one (aka running a Ryzen perhaps).

    On my Ryzen 16cores, I get about 90%+ performance inside the OSX vs my native machine.

    If not going with dual boot, while you can run QEMU with windows, you won't have the KVM accelerator which is how I got high performance. You might want to try nesting a Linux inside Hyper-V and then running Qemu inside of that.

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  • ec2-macos-init

    EC2 macOS Init is the launch daemon used to initialize Mac instances within EC2.

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