[petabyt]

People have been doing hackintoshes and macos VMs for years... And apple hasn't really done anything. So I doubt this tool will provoke them.

[karlgkk]

A long while ago, they put some company selling hackintoshes straight into the ground. Nobody tried since

[conception]

Apple has killed the Hackintosh…. It’s just bleeding out still.

[ofrzeta]

How so? Seems like Hackintosh got kind of obsolete with Apple Silicon.

[cyberax]

You can't install XCode on non-Apple devices. Or use iMessage.

[johnisgood]

Is this the case? How does that work? Genuinely curious. I remember I had macOS (Mac OS X, actually) on my PC. My last Hackintosh was Mac OS X Leopard. Everything seemed to work well... back then. I even had XCode working.

[zImPatrick]

you can still install xcode - and also still use imessage if you configure your vm correctly, see kholia/OSX-KVM

[cyberax]

I tried that, and I can't make it work. Sigh.

[cosmic_cheese]

iMessage can be made to work with a hackintosh. You just have to go the whole way in making your hackintosh fully Mac-like with a fake but plausible/realistic serial number and expected network setup. You can’t stop at just getting macOS installed and booting.

I’ve had multiple installs in the past where it worked fine.

[jonhohle]

Who minds committing a little wire fraud and possibly screwing over some chump who really owns that serial number?

[cosmic_cheese]

How is it wire fraud?

While it’s ultimately up to the person doing the hackintoshing and thus an “honor system” thing, all the guides are pretty explicit about how you should generate serial numbers that are syntactically valid but cannot belong to real machines, for example that of a 12” Macbook manufactured in 2020 in Cork, Ireland (no such machine exists, as they were discontinued in 2019 and manufactured in China). That way there’s a small chance of collision with other hackintoshers, but no threat of accidentally using the serial of someone’s real Mac.