vm build

[TheLagDidIt]

i am trying to build a computer for a class I take, where students want to develop apps on mac only software. We don't have enough money in our budget to buy a mac, so I am considering building a pc to run a virtual mac environment. Is this build sufficient? It would have an i3-6300, an ASRock H110M-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard, Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory, Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive, Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini ITX Tower Case, Silverstone 300W 80+ Bronze Certified SFX Power Supply, and windows 10 pro OEM (might be able to get school to download windows 7 for free)

[TheLagDidIt]

or, just use this link and tell me if it works https://pcpartpicker.com/user/iworl/saved/#view=VZfxrH

[TheLagDidIt]

if not i will recreate it

[TheLagDidIt]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/VD72BP

[TheLagDidIt]

or https://pcpartpicker.com/user/iworl/saved/VZfxrH

[TheLagDidIt]

pls

[AniJan]

Just buy a used Mac..

http://www.macofalltrades.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=IM-215-306-M10A&utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=cpc_feed&utm_campaign=comparison_shopping_feeds&gclid=COr2sPXC7dECFdgVgQod9foMYA

[gtx1060=value]

it seems ok, although you definitely want more than 2 cores for a virtual machine running mac - i would recommend at least 12gb of ram and 4 cores - you could go amd fx series if you wanted to but that's last ditch - just buy a used server or something

[TheLagDidIt]

On 1/31/2017 at 5:20 PM, gtx1060=value said:

it seems ok, although you definitely want more than 2 cores for a virtual machine running mac - i would recommend at least 12gb of ram and 4 cores - you could go amd fx series if you wanted to but that's last ditch - just buy a used server or something

ok

 

[TheLagDidIt]

it would be just to gain access to the mac exclusive software, and i doubt that core count will cause instability, just a little lag

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

you want to make mac software but you dont want to buy into that ecosystem? the only legal and cheap way to achieve this is to buy a mac mini refurbished or new; use something like Xamarin to develop and use the mac mini as a build server to compile and publish. you cannot legally run mac os in a virtual machine on non apple hardware. Also dont be surprised if this thread gets locked by a mod

[vanished]

Apple views running Mac OS natively on non-apple hardware the same as running a VM of MAc OS on non-apple hardware, so this is functionally no different than a hackintosh.