MacOS VM on qubes

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Aloha, any further info regarding this?

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Has anyone else tried Ravyn OS on Qubes?

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have you tried this tutorial?

it uses qemu-kvm so maybe it will work for qubes

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Wow! Iā€™ll have to try this out. We should be able to follow those steps and run a qube I would thinkā€¦ any thoughts?

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Guys have you seen this GitHub - sickcodes/Docker-OSX: Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers. no idea if it has chances to run on Qubes, but stillā€¦

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Hello,

Did you managed to create the instructions?

Thanks

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Iā€™ve been following the macOS VM on Qubes thread, but itā€™s still unclear whether anyone has managed to get a working macOS VM running inside Qubes as of 2025. Several people have tried things like using OpenCore with Xen HVM and enabling UEFI, or adapting KVM hackintosh methods, but I couldnā€™t find a fully working, repeatable solution.

Has anyone here actually succeeded in installing and booting macOS (any recent version) inside a Qubes HVM or other configuration?
If so, could you share:
What version of macOS you got working?
What exact steps or tools you used (e.g., OpenCore config, firmware setup, Xen tweaks)? Whether itā€™s booting reliably, and any quirks/hurdles you had to overcome?
Thanks in advance

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any update on this?

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Genuine (yet appropriately ā€œpointedā€) question: Why would anyone want this? Like what is the use case?

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Iā€™ve read those, but they donā€™t really help the GitHub issue mostly discusses Apple hardware and the macOS EULA, and the Google Groups post is outdated I wouldnā€™t know how to adapt it to newer Qubes versions. I was referring to more recent posts where people claim to have it running, like this: MacOS VM on qubes - #39 by anon78805360.

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Does anyone know how to change:
<domain type='xen'>
to
<domain type='xen' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>

When I try to change it in /etc/qubes/templates/libvirt/xen/by-name, no errors come up, but taking a look in vmm shows that it doesnā€™t get applied.

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Hey everyone,

Sorry I dropped this message and went quiet ā€” it was not exactly ā€œsoonā€ as I promised. But here is the tutorial.

DarwinXen

Keep in mind this was tested 2 years ago on Ubuntu 22.04 + Xen 4.19, so newer versions are untested.

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I do not understand the appeal of this. I can understand the appeal of running Microsoft Office apps on Windows in a qube. Like other things that involve an amount of poop that is hard to ignore along with general immune defficency, I can at least understand the behavior of using Microsoft Office even though the collective behaviors are something I can not condone.

What software runs on macOS that doesnā€™t already run on BSD, Linux, or Poopdows?

What is the point of all this other than ā€œbecause we canā€?