Virtual Machine OS on PC: Question

[EdwardIIV]

Good day everybody.
So I'm planning on buying a PC soon, and I'll be moving from a Macbook. So I thought, why not get macOS on the PC through a virtual machine, since I'm very fond of the OS?

Anyway, that's what I'm planning on doing, but I have a question that also is related to hardware. I'm going to hopefully be running a dual-monitor setup, so my question is;
If I were to fullscreen the macOS virtual machine on a single monitor while running Windows on the other monitor, and the macOS virtual machine is idle or not doing much, like watching a video, while the Windows side is playing a game or such, will there be any effect on game performance?

When installing macOS as a virtual machine, it will often ask for how much memory I want to allocate to the virtual machine, along with the cores of the CPU and the VRAM. But, once again, what if the virtual machine is idle, will the Windows side use all cores, VRAM and memory? Or will it only use what is left for it, say only 8GB out of 16GB of RAM (since the other 8GB is allocated for macOS)?

I hope I was clear enough.
Thanks and cheers!

[DnFx91]

its always ugly trying to actually USE two operating systems concurrently, you just have to remember that each OS literally has half of your PC each, so most of the time it won't be great.

[Droidbot]

It's horribly slow - no acceleration for video for example.

Best off dual-booting or getting a Mac Mini and remoting into that for example

[Guest]

I agree with @DnFx91. Your pc has to do everything twice. And if allocated memory for your VM is the same af the memory for my GPU (APU), then that RESERVED memory gets reserved. Your PC won't know when you click on something intensive, and it does want to be as fast as possible with the resources you gave it.

 

Also, I think your change from apple to PC is great. Just go all the way. Use some kind of windows (or even Linux).

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

Ok so you want to remove mention of Mac from your post before a mod sees it. If the VM does nothing it will not use much CPU, you can even pause it. It will use the ram you set

[DnFx91]

1 minute ago, SCHISCHKA said:

Ok so you want to remove mention of Mac from your post before a mod sees it. If the VM does nothing it will not use much CPU, you can even pause it. It will use some ram

talking about the concept of running OSX on non apple hardware is fine, you just can't tell anyone how to do it.

[pmos]

37 minutes ago, EdwardIIV said:

Good day everybody.
So I'm planning on buying a PC soon, and I'll be moving from a Macbook. So I thought, why not get macOS on the PC through a virtual machine, since I'm very fond of the OS?

Anyway, that's what I'm planning on doing, but I have a question that also is related to hardware. I'm going to hopefully be running a dual-monitor setup, so my question is;
If I were to fullscreen the macOS virtual machine on a single monitor while running Windows on the other monitor, and the macOS virtual machine is idle or not doing much, like watching a video, while the Windows side is playing a game or such, will there be any effect on game performance?

When installing macOS as a virtual machine, it will often ask for how much memory I want to allocate to the virtual machine, along with the cores of the CPU and the VRAM. But, once again, what if the virtual machine is idle, will the Windows side use all cores, VRAM and memory? Or will it only use what is left for it, say only 8GB out of 16GB of RAM (since the other 8GB is allocated for macOS)?

I hope I was clear enough.
Thanks and cheers!

For an old workplace, I did setup "Trashcaned fruit" on an EXSi server, needed a few tweaks and patches, but it worked quite well, then they would connect to it, to test stuff out (I know companies arent allowed this, but who cares xD)

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

18 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

talking about the concept of running OSX on non apple hardware is fine, you just can't tell anyone how to do it.

Are you sure you want to challenge this. OP just remove mention of it and the question will remain relevant. The title is bait for a mod

[DnFx91]

25 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

Are you sure you want to challenge this. OP just remove mention of it and the question will remain relevant. The title is bait for a mod

i did challenge it mate, i'm living proof.

 

 

[EdwardIIV]

Firstly, thank you all for your replies. When I asked this elsewhere, my thread was immediately closed due to it being against Apple's rules to use macOS on another device than a Mac. I am entirely against this, but as I am very much fond of the OS, there really isn't much of another option. I may buy a Mac Mini, but that would increase the price of my overall setup significantly and will not be as powerful as the PC.

 

I changed macOS in the title to OS, but anyway, like said, I'd gladly buy macOS if it were possible to run alongside Windows.

 

Anyway, what you guys are basically saying is that it's a bad idea to run Windows and macOS at the same time then?

 

If that's so, what if I didn't run them together at the same time and ran them separately instead, will the allocated RAM, VRAM and CPU cores allocated to the virtual machine be specifically reserved for the virtual machine only? Or will all the needed RAM (etc) be used on the Windows side whenever it is required? Say if I were playing a game, and the required VRAM for that game surpasses that of which is left for the Windows side (say 3GB out of 6GB), will the game use all the required VRAM or will it stay within the limits of what is left for it?

 

Sorry for the complications, I hope someone can give me some insight into this.

Many thanks.

[0ld_Chicken]

Terribly sorry but same applies here, Thread has been locked

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