Running macOS on a virtual machine

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Running macOS on a virtual machine

I have been trying to run macOS Sonoma on my windows pc, but instead of booting up, It just boot loops, and just displays: "There was a problem with your computer, press a key to restart or continue booting up" or something like that, maybe a kernel panic, I have been researching for more than 16 hours straight in order to run macOS Sonoma on my pc.

How much memory does macOS Sonoma take and how much space do I need to have in order to run macOS 14 on my pc, I'd love to know the solution to the kernel panic the VM is having, I even tried to run macOS Monterey but it still kept looping.

Posted on Jul 13, 2024 11:07 PM

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etresoft

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Jul 14, 2024 7:42 AM in response to Goku3508_iOS

It's not 2012 anymore. There's no such thing as a "PC". There's no such thing as a "VM".

At a fundamental level, what you are trying to do is not allowed by the macOS license and never has been. In the past, people have been able to (but not allowed to) run macOS on commodity, Intel-based PC hardware. That also included some virtual machine software packages.

But Apple has made change to the software specifically to prevent these kinds of license violations. So your "problem" is actually the software functioning as designed. This is not a problem we can help with because there is no problem.

And it gets worse. Apple isn't even using the Intel architecture anymore. That change has completely destroyed the Mac VM industry. As a side effect, much of the effort that used to go into building hackintoshes or virtual machines is gone and never coming back. This started with Big Sur and would also apply to Monterey and definitely Sonoma.

If you want to run macOS, you'll simply have to buy a Mac, preferably a new one. Even then, if you want to run a virtual machine, you'll find it to be much more difficult than it used to be.

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