Draft:Recommended VM configurations/macOS


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This page provides recommended configurations for installing builds in a specific emulator or hypervisor. This page is by no means exhaustive, and your mileage may vary, so you may have to adjust some settings to your liking as it sees fit.

Overview
macOS operating systems vary on what architectures are used based on the version. QEMU and SheepShaver can run PowerPC builds of Mac OS X under Windows or other x86 operating systems. QEMU, Basilisk II, and Mini vMac are able to run 68k builds of Mac OS, and VirtualBox, VMware Fusion, and Parallels Desktop for Mac can run x86/64 builds of Mac OS X. ARM macOS systems can only be run guests based on its corresponding hardware via Parallels Desktop for Mac and will not support x86/64 builds of Mac OS X.

Note that running virtual machine guests of x86/64 and ARM64 builds of Mac OS X are only officially (and legally) supported on host Apple systems. As such, no instructions will be provided for running x86/64 and ARM64 builds of Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware.

Mac OS 9

 * notes=Mac OS 9.0 requires a ROM with version 5.2.1 and above.