I had been waiting for a really long time for that video by the Linux Experiment (really good Linux youtuber) which is also available there: https://tilvids.com/w/bLPmGvqHd69ANdPdhRZXWV .
Sadly, as I’m on Fedora, there are a few differences from Ubuntu (DNF instead of APT) and I can’t use the PPA from the github links ( https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickgui/releases?page=1 , https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu?tab=readme-ov-file ).
I’m sure it’s easy once you get to the beginning of the video but since I can’t install quickgui and I’m stuck.
It would be really nice if I could get some help as I’m sure it’s fairly easy for someone more knowleadgable than me.
I should just add that I don’t even really know what DNF, APT and PPA are. I just know it’s related to my problem.
Edit: Basically I’m stuck at the part where you have to use the terminal to install quickgui with these lines
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannick-mauray/quickgui sudo apt update sudo apt install quickgui
The missing graphics acceleration is annoying. It is really sluggish and not fun to use.
Yeah, being that sluggish won’t do it for me. And supposedly there are other solutions that can pull it off(?!)
I tried quickemu last week. And it was really easy. However, the fact that it doesn’t support the latest version of MacOS (there’s an PR for that) and that it felt way slower than anticipated made me stop. Maybe I’ll explore other solutions to get MacOS virtualized.
This video was all cool until he said “using spicy remote desktop protocol”. That’s when I knew it was all the typical bs guide that results in a slow system not usable for anything remotely close to real time. Also the guy is running without any GPU acceleration making things very bad.
What’s the advantage of this vs running it in a container? https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
I haven’t watched that video, but I just followed the instructions on OSX-KVM and it was a breeze, took a few hours to install though.
I’ve tried it a while ago and I couldn’t get to the end of the installation process as it was saying « internet connection required » (when clearly I had one outside of the VM)
Well I tried and managed to install Big Sur but it’s not displaying my iPhone (for backups).
Since it was my main purpose for getting MacOs, it’s a bit useless.
It’s relatively recent that OS can be installed in such a short time. MacOS isn’t officially supported for installing on these systems so there process used here isn’t going to be well optimised. Apple only care about installing MacOS on their own hardware, which is likely quick when they do it in production and slow elsewhere.
I’m currently installing MacOS using this guide to be able to use XCode for school and it seems to be working so far (with monterey). It’s a bit sluggish but it’s either this or buying/renting a macbook.
quickemu actually has installation instructions for Fedora. I’m using OpenSUSE, which unlike Fedora doesn’t have installation instructions at all, that’s why I ended up using Distrobox. I looked at my command history and I think this is what I did.
distrobox create --image ubuntu macos-vm-boxdistrobox enter macos-vm-boxsudo apt update && sudo apt upgradesudo apt install software-properties-sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannick-mauray/quickguisudo apt updatesudo apt install quickgui- Use
quickgui
It should also work on Fedora, but I may have missed some commands.
