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OSes for Virtual Machines (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by hellfire103@lemmy.ca to c/programming@programming.dev
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I've recently written a small program in Python, which I would like to package for various environments. Namely:

  • RPM
  • Arch Linux
  • FreeBSD
  • AppImage
  • Windows
  • macOS

I do not run Windows and my Mac hasn't been updated since 2008, so virtualisation seems to be the best solution. However, all of my boxes are relatively low-performance, so I have not yet managed to get a decent install of Windows 10 in virt-manager.

So, can anyone suggest some versions or mods of Windows, or an alternate method, that would let me run Py2EXE and InnoSetup?

And does anyone have a guide on installing macOS under KVM or QEMU?

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[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

And does anyone have a guide on installing macOS under KVM or QEMU?

It isn't that hard (https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM) but unless you have a compatible GPU to pass to the macOS VM it will be barely usable. macOS doesn't play very nice without GPU acceleration and virtual GPUs aren't supported by macOS.

[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

can anyone suggest some versions or mods of Windows, or an alternate method, that would let me run Py2EXE and InnoSetup?

https://reactos.org/

might work for you, and it might not. But do let us know if it does!

does anyone have a guide on installing macOS under KVM or QEMU?

https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

sort of works some of the time. I personally didn’t find it satisfactory for my use case. It might be suitable for you.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

I never had much luck with ReactOS, but I'll give it a shot.

Thanks for the help!

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