VM containing old OSX on Debian, which way?
by Herve5 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5G5X8)
Hello,
I'm on current Debian with almost no experience in VMs, and since I abandoned MacOSX long ago I used to consider virtualizing my old mac just wasn't an option.
(that would have been to retrieve old closed-source databases of various editors that now only allow pay-per-view web access, if and when they still exist, and which I won't rebuy)
But recently I have been aware of two things :
- there seems to be a clear, step-by-step manner to create an OSX VM (with more recent OS versions than mine, but OK)
- there seems to be yet another VM manager, 'Gnome Boxes' maybe only a wrapper around Qemu + various additions.
I have two questions :
- what is your opinion on Boxes (on Debian Xfce), vs the others, which are simpler to set?
- would you suggest another system than Qemu for virtualizing OSX?
While the 'foxlet' script above does download recent OSX versions, any manner to just recuperate my old system, on my old hardware, would do too...
Thank you!!
Herve
I'm on current Debian with almost no experience in VMs, and since I abandoned MacOSX long ago I used to consider virtualizing my old mac just wasn't an option.
(that would have been to retrieve old closed-source databases of various editors that now only allow pay-per-view web access, if and when they still exist, and which I won't rebuy)
But recently I have been aware of two things :
- there seems to be a clear, step-by-step manner to create an OSX VM (with more recent OS versions than mine, but OK)
- there seems to be yet another VM manager, 'Gnome Boxes' maybe only a wrapper around Qemu + various additions.
I have two questions :
- what is your opinion on Boxes (on Debian Xfce), vs the others, which are simpler to set?
- would you suggest another system than Qemu for virtualizing OSX?
While the 'foxlet' script above does download recent OSX versions, any manner to just recuperate my old system, on my old hardware, would do too...
Thank you!!
Herve