MAC OS CLOUD VM PATCH
The image is considered beta and the contents of the image (including tool versions) are subject to change until the first patch release ( 12.1). GitLab expects to release new images based on this cadence:įor new OS versions: When Apple releases a new macOS version to developers (like macOS 12), GitLab will plan to release an image based on the OS within the next 30 business days.
MAC OS CLOUD VM UPDATE
Instance type vCPUS Memory (GB) gbc-macos-large 4 10 VM images Image update policy The expectation is that virtual machines running on the Apple M1 chip will be available in the second half of 2022.Īt this time there is only one available machine type offered, gbc-macos-large. GitLab SaaS provides macOS build machines on Apple servers with Intel x86-64 processors. That process will likely increase the total job duration. Yergen also cited this post on virtualizing OpenCore and x86 as helpful in their work to get macOS working on the iPad Pro.Each time you run a job that requires tooling or dependencies not available in the base image, those items must be added to the newly provisioned build VM. These Virtual Hackintosh systems are not intended to replace the genuine physical macOS systems. My aim is to enable macOS based educational tasks, builds + testing, kernel debugging, reversing, and macOS security research in an easy, reproducible manner without getting ‘invested’ in Apple’s closed ecosystem (too heavily). Just last month, Corellium won part of the lawsuit. This is similar for macOS to what Apple took Correllium to court over with the latter offering iOS virtualization. You may also find this ‘Announcing Amazon EC2 Mac instances for macOS’ article interesting. Gabriel Somlo also has some thoughts on the legal aspects involved in running macOS under QEMU/KVM.
MAC OS CLOUD VM INSTALL
Please review the ‘Legality of Hackintoshing’ documentation bits from Dortania’s OpenCore Install Guide.
Due to these reasons, the OSK string is freely included in this repository.
I am not a lawyer but it seems that Apple’s attempt(s) to get the OSK string treated as a trade secret did not work out. It is also included in a public court document available here.
The “secret” Apple OSK string is widely available on the Internet. Notably, Kholia who posted the OSX-KVM resources on GitHub notes in the README that they are looking for help documenting the process of “running macOS on popular cloud providers (Hetzner, GCP, AWS).” It’s possible this example of macOS Catalina running on iPad could be a cloud-based Virtual Hackintosh.Īs for the legality of all this, Kholia shared the following:
KVM is an open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine utility built into Linux.ĭescribed by RedHat: “Specifically, KVM lets you turn Linux into a hypervisor that allows a host machine to run multiple, isolated virtual environments called guests or virtual machines (VMs).” Yevgen is using the UTM app to run virtual machines on iOS devices, then has employed a process to create a virtual Hackintosh with a method shared on GitHub called OSX-KVM. Notably, this isn’t a method of running macOS Big Sur on the iPad Pro’s A12Z ARM chip. On YouTube, Yevgen Yakovliev shared an almost 40-minute walkthrough of what appears to be macOS Catalina running on a 2020 iPad Pro. Interestingly, a video of an iPad running macOS has just surfaced as the latest virtual Hackintosh. Now a new type of Hackintosh appears to be gaining some traction that may be useful for research and educational purposes, virtual Hackintoshes.
MAC OS CLOUD VM SOFTWARE
But as Apple only wants its software to run on its own devices, it’s become more difficult over time to actually use them as functional machines. Hackintoshes – PCs tweaked to run macOS with workarounds have been around for a while.