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Virtualize Mac OS X

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I am currently virtualizing Mac OS X using VMware Fusion on my Mac. I do this in order to keep my applications separate from each other so I can instantly restore if needed without affecting other applications.
I would like to use virtualization Station to run Mac OS X. Is this possible? Will Hacintosh work?
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Re: Virtualize Mac OS X

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the supported list is here:

https://www.qnap.com/en-uk/support/con_show.php?cid=94

Virtualisation Station is based on QEMU/QKVM afaik. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU
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Apple only "officially" supports Mac OS X being virtualized when running on Mac OS X (hence VM Fusion can, but VM Workstation on Windows can't).

That being said, you could potentially do a hacintosh type install in VS although I have never tried to. It definitely would be an unsupported usage though.
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Hi

A while back, I had several attempts at performing a hacintosh type installation and it seemed to all be going quite well, but from memory, it kept failing at the post installation reboot stage (so I eventually gave up and opened a nice bottle of red wine; that was a far more successful exercise). To be honest, I've never even used a Mac (that's why I was trying it; I was just mildly curious to play with Mac OS) so perhaps I just got something fundamentally wrong.

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You may have better luck with trying that on VS 3.x vs. 2.x (depending which version you were doing your testing on).
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Yes, that is a good idea; it was a long time back, so it would have been one of the earliest implementations of VS, so perhaps - when time permits - I will give it another shot, just to satisfy my curiosity.

Bri :)

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Re: Virtualize Mac OS X

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Wondering if someone might be able to help with advice and/or step-by-step instructions.

1. How do I install VMware Fusion onto QNAPs Virtualisation Station - thinking of cloning the VM machine i have on my mac (to run Windows) and using that on the QNAP
2. Will Mac OSX run on VMWare Fusion?
3. If it does can I perform a timemachine recovery into the VM?

Please, if anyone can hold my hand through this I'd be grateful. I want to do this so I can leave the QNAP running programs (for example Adobe Premier Pro) regardless of where my mac is.

Thank you.
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mylanclx wrote:Wondering if someone might be able to help with advice and/or step-by-step instructions.

1. How do I install VMware Fusion onto QNAPs Virtualisation Station - thinking of cloning the VM machine i have on my mac (to run Windows) and using that on the QNAP
2. Will Mac OSX run on VMWare Fusion?
3. If it does can I perform a timemachine recovery into the VM?

Please, if anyone can hold my hand through this I'd be grateful. I want to do this so I can leave the QNAP running programs (for example Adobe Premier Pro) regardless of where my mac is.

Thank you.
1 & 2 not possible. You would likely have to do a hackintosh OS install into VS. I briefly tried, but haven’t had time to fully create one yet.

Other option would be to just run Windows VM with Premier Pro and store data files on Qnap so that both your Mac and windows VM could work from same file set.


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Re: Virtualize Mac OS X

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^ can you elaborate on what is a hacintosh os?
Googling this, refers to more having specific parts supposed by macOS...

However am confused at what is meant by hacintosh os?
Any particular sites or steps can reference as definitely need a macOS server to run a Mac specific software on there...
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caffecoffee wrote:^ can you elaborate on what is a hacintosh os?
Googling this, refers to more having specific parts supposed by macOS...

However am confused at what is meant by hacintosh os?
Any particular sites or steps can reference as definitely need a macOS server to run a Mac specific software on there...
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Basically a hackintosh is a modified version of OSx to run on non-apple HW. So while they have a list of the support formats, they also have VM image versions as well.
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Re: Virtualize Mac OS X

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Right. Sorry for the silly q. Googled it further and found installers that help with drivers and process to simplify things.

Now what I haven’t found as yet, is of confirmed successful QNAP installs...?
Well 1 in this forum, however it was not stable.
Not too sure if anyone on here has confirmed working and stable?
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Sorry for getting this old thread out of sleep but during the last years there seem to be some effort on running OS X in a QEMU/KVM environment.

Found some stuff googleing after "hackintosh vm kvm" e.g.:

https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-ru ... -kvm-qemu/
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/03/i ... na-in.html (Docker-OSX)

Beeing not a noob but I'm not so deep in KVM, QEMU, so not sure if I can get this to run but here are so many pros I'm sure this is doable.

It would be great so see 10.6 SnowLeopard Server run in a VM on our beloed QNAP machines :-)
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