Wow, Good Hack. I also noticed that using so would violate Github action's TOS.
I run macos in qemu/kvm . works very good.
I run macos in qemu/kvm . works very good.
Is this how Github actions and other CI services work? For some reason I thought they had to buy a bunch of Apple hardware ...
It is, but very weakly - basically a secret string stored in the SMI.
> Is this how Github actions and other CI services work? For some reason I thought they had to buy a bunch of Apple hardware ...
You can virtualize MacOS, but only on official Apple hardware. There is likely a fleet of Mac Pros or Mac Minis somewhere running real hardware + VMs.
EDIT: Read "You can ..." above as "You are authorized by Apple and can legally virtualize MacOS". You can run OSX on virtually any hardware in a VM, but doing it at scale or in a commercial setting will probably be a bad idea from a legal perspective.
Which, incidentally, is "ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc"
https://www.rcfp.org/wp-content/uploads/imported/20120105_20...
(Direct link to PDF)
legally only on apple hardware. It does actually work fine on normal PCs though.
Because it seems like you "can" in the technical sense (although I didn't try it, I looked at the code and it looks legit)
I imagine that a small CI service could start with the QEMU solution unofficially, but they would likely have to switch to Apple hardware before Apple got wind of it ...