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M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS

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176 points Brajeshwar | 2 comments | 16 Nov 24 16:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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roopepal ◴[16 Nov 24 16:56 UTC] No.42157400[source]▶
> It seems that M4 chips can’t virtualise any version of macOS before 13.4 Ventura

13.4 was released on May 18, 2023. That's actually not very far into the past.

Anyway, what would be the most common use cases for this? And how common are those?

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deathhand ◴[16 Nov 24 17:02 UTC] No.42157435[source]▶
Dev environments, and testing.

Macs are the best at virtualizing macs.(look up hackintosh to see how many hoops must be jumped through on non mac hardware)

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talldayo ◴[16 Nov 24 18:46 UTC] No.42158246[source]▶
You don't need a Hackintosh to virtualize a Mac - you can actually download the MacOS image directly from Apple and boot it right into QEMU with the proper configuration. I've used a few scripts over the years that could have an OSX image running on Linux in less than 15 minutes.
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