So I want to try OS X and was thinking of running a VM. Does anyone know how I am able to do this?
I have seen some youtube videos that give "torrent" links to already made VM drive files, is that a good idea?
Never torrent anything unless you are 100 percent confident that the thing is legit.
Personally, I would just do it myself vs having someone else do it for me. Think of everything that you can learn by doing it yourself.
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For sure, I am wondering if there is any documentation on such a feat?
Test the torrent and VM within another VM.
one of the hackintosh forums has a section on osx vms. unless you pass through a physical VM you will be enjoying a slightly laggy experience.
hopefully that gets folks headed in the right direction.
I had to setup OSX in a VM for a hackintosh once. I managed to get it running fine on virtualbox but this ^^ was my experience. Took me ages to do anything and it crashed quite a lot.
I was able to install a OSX VM on ESXi 6 but, and was able to pass through a video card but, could not get a keyboard to pass through on ESXi 6 like you can 5 or 5.5. it be possible to use steam streaming or one of the few alternative game streaming softwares in conjunction with video card passed through but, be aware you can not get rid of the built in VM cpu/software rendered video card.
I now have a vSGA supported card, the W7000 but, AFAIK there are no OSX drivers for vSGA. possibly not even linux either.
EDIT: i was playing with the idea of light gaming 3D acceleration with OSX on ESXi. That would / should /could work with windows for sure.
Pass through physical VM? What does this mean? Im thinking of using vmware with a windows host. I already have linux vm's and I was thinking of trying os x vm for final cut, don't feel like dualbooting.
I meant to say, pass through a physical GPU.
Ahh, so linux would be the best host?
I have done this and had no issues whatsoever. Ran great on my 3440x1440 21:9 monitor too.
I'd say if you like osx, do it
ESXi would be the host at least in my case.