Can't get MacOS Setup to Start in VirtualBox; Is VMware Better?

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  • Oh I understand. In that case I guess that a VM without passthrough (i.e. just CPU) would work. But I would still use QEMU and Linux (WSL2 also works, but it's a bit tricker). I'd recommend you using either Kholia's OSX-VM project or https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX . Both can help you to provide a QEMU-compatible VM (either native or through Docker, whichever you fancy) that can run being CPU-accelerated and could work with that. It will be slow, but good enough for basic stuff like that. If you need any help just comment, good luck!

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