OSes for Virtual Machines

Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨hellfire103@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨programming@programming.dev⁩

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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

It isn’t that hard (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.

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DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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?

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.

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- hellfire103@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I never had much luck with ReactOS, but I’ll give it a shot.
  
  Thanks for the help!
  
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