[britneybitch]

I hate to give Apple any ideas... but I've always wondered why macOS/iOS support falling back to software rendering, when all of their devices ship with a known GPU configuration. Without that fallback, getting the OS running on non-Apple hardware would take a lot more work.

[cmeacham98]

Apple has documentation on installing OS X in a VM: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/ins...

While _this_ usecase obviously isn't officially supported, it does seem like they support VMs in some capacity officially.

[sigjuice]

This document is about running macOS in a VM on Apple's own hypervisor. Wouldn't this count as official support?

[OJFord]

GP's 'this' refers to the submission, i.e. macOS in a container. (Aside: I hate 'a Docker', a Docker what? Image? Container? Registry?)

[naikrovek]

yeah, "a Docker" is incomplete and incorrect. and annoying. It could have been a character limitation, I guess, but edit it down so it makes sense instead of just ending the sentence prematurely.

"Do you have a Facebook? Or an insta?"

No one cares about correctness at all, anymore.

[chrisweekly]

It's a Docker on the intertubes, I can't even.

[dylan604]

Who calls it instagram? Like Reebok->RBK. Only old out of touch people say instagram or reebok

[Fnoord]

And that is how we descended to the madness of the word crypto.

[NikolaNovak]

I honestly don't know if that is sarcasm. If not I'm gleefully both old and out of touch :-)

P.S. For bonus points, ask me how I pronounce INXS :-D

[jbverschoor]

ig.. insta.. oh you mean instacart? or did you mean to say 'the gram' ?

These abbreviations are location/culture dependent. For example, here when you say "I'll app you", it means sending a message on whatsapp.

[easton]

I wonder if that’s GPU accelerated, the last time I used a macOS VM on a Mac it wasn’t, but it wasn’t with the newest version of the hypervisor.

[saagarjha]

It is. There’s a paravirtualized Metal driver.

[spijdar]

Presumably they use it internally. IIRC there are drivers for VirtIO devices in modern MacOS, implying they use KVM/QEMU for something.

[smoldesu]

It's also used when you load into the recovery partition, IIRC. It may be redundant nowadays, but it's a nice redundancy to have for sure.

[ace2358]

Makes sense to have that working if there are gpu hardware issues… which did happen for many years

[incrudible]

Without that fallback, getting the OS running on Apple hardware would take a lot more work, as well.

[BudaDude]

I would imagine battery life may be a part of it