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I do a switcharoo, I develop for iOS inside a macOS VM with Linux host.

After a 5 years hiatus I started developing mobile apps again and I was frustrated to learn that Apple doesn't allow renewing the developer license on web anymore, I don't own a Mac and even Apple developer app on iPhone didn't allow me to renew my license.

After I signed into a macOS VM, I was able to renew my license through Apple Developer App on iPhone as macOS version of the app requires T2 chip.

Now I have PTSD flashbacks of why I left mobile development in first place.



Can you share more info on your MacOS VM setup? I’ve managed to set one up precisely once with proxmox, and getting iCloud/imessage to work required me to contact Apple support


I used Kholia's scripts[1] on Qemu with Virsh. I didn't have much trouble other than some SELinux permission issues which I resolved quickly.

iCloud/imessage have always been finicky with Hackintosh, but in my experience setting the correct serial number with appropriate Mac model is the key to resolve those issues.

With just couple of years of Hackintosh scene left before support for x86 Macs are dropped completely, a VM Hackintosh makes more sense to me than building a physical Hackintosh.

[1]https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM


Even a VM will stop working soon as Intel support is removed from the OS and apps start demanding newer OS versions.

Or is it possible to emulate Apple Silicon on a VM now?


Yes macOS VM will also be useless too in some years but a useless VM is better than a useless purpose built computer for hackintosh.

Qemu is capable of ARM emulation but I don't think its capable of emulating sophisticated SoC like Apple Silicon.




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