Have you been living under a rock? Do you know what a hackintosh is?
It's been going for so long that ccurrent bootloaders allow to run it completely unmodified, working updates etc.
macOS also runs under some VMs, with some config tweaks
I'm familiar with that, why I mentioned "patched" in my above comment. It's still a tenuous position to be in, unless you enjoy diagnosing errors rather than working.
Actually, because macOS natively supports VMWare (including ESXI), you can use that quite easily on non-Apple hardware!
Now, this too doesn't quite work out of the box because VMWare’s products have a completely artificial check and wherein they'll refuse to boot macOS on non-Apple hardware by default. To get around this, VMWare needs to be patched, but macOS runs entirely unmodified! And because it's ultimately the same VMWare codebase (quite literally the same binary in the case of ESXI), it runs just as well as it would on a Mac.
Native Hackintosh setups, when done properly, also work much better than many non-Hackintosh users assume. The initial setup process can be quite time consuming and fiddly, but if and when you get everything working, you can not touch it for years and it will be be just like an actual Mac. Even across updates! You absolutely don't need to "enjoy diagnosing errors rather than working," except at the start.
mixmastamyk|4 years ago
Wowfunhappy|4 years ago
Now, this too doesn't quite work out of the box because VMWare’s products have a completely artificial check and wherein they'll refuse to boot macOS on non-Apple hardware by default. To get around this, VMWare needs to be patched, but macOS runs entirely unmodified! And because it's ultimately the same VMWare codebase (quite literally the same binary in the case of ESXI), it runs just as well as it would on a Mac.
Native Hackintosh setups, when done properly, also work much better than many non-Hackintosh users assume. The initial setup process can be quite time consuming and fiddly, but if and when you get everything working, you can not touch it for years and it will be be just like an actual Mac. Even across updates! You absolutely don't need to "enjoy diagnosing errors rather than working," except at the start.
unknown|4 years ago
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