Vm

It’s been a few days since my last blog post about a virtualized hackintosh, I’ve got some time to tinker and form opinions and gather facts about it. It’s not bad at all but it comes with a compromise, let me try to follow up on what I’ve written before. Why Virtualize At All? Why not? But a more convincing argument is because I have a gaming PC with a 16 core/32 thread CPU lying around. It’s rather fiddly to dual boot between macOS and Windows because both my GPUs (Radeon RX 570 and RTX 3080 Ti) are connected to my monitors and on Windows this is not ideal. The best possible experience is to use an HDMI or DP switch to connect the GPUs to my monitors, I don’t have such a device and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to explore the quirks that comes with using it. ...

I have installed hackintoshes since the very beginning on a Core2Duo laptop. Back then the term was OSX86 and the only way to get the OS is through torrent downloads. Since then I’ve built hackintoshes especially when Intel Macbook Pros are so pro. I can’t believe all these years I never tried to do the virtualization route. The past few years, my hackintoshes were always a dedicated PC separate from my gaming PC because Nvidia GPUs have no hope in hackintoshes, now it changes. ...