Run Mac App On Ubuntu

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MacOS VirtualBox VM on Ubuntu

Posted by Shujin Wu on February 23, 2017

Step 1： Download the Sierra installer from Mac App Store.

This should be done in you Mac and the installer will be placed in /Application/ folder.

Step 2: Prepare Sierra iso

Use geerlingguy’s script to prepare a sierra iso file.

Step3: Install VirtualBox in Ubuntu

Before going into how to run command-line Mac applications on Linux, the Darling tool needs to be installed. Unfourutnaly, Darling must be built from source, as the project doesn’t distribute easy to install binary files for Ubuntu, Fedora, and others. Ubuntu Distributions with Linux online that can be run with a web browser for free in OnWorks. Linux or Windows? Note: This is the first of a series of articles about running Ubuntu on Windows. Linux users who want to run Windows applications without switching operating systems have been able to do so for years with Wine, software that lets apps designed for Windows run on Unix-like systems. Why Install Ubuntu on Your Mac? There are plenty of reasons for having Ubuntu run on a Mac, including the ability to broaden your technology chops, learn about a different OS, and run one or more OS-specific apps. You may be a Linux developer and realize that the Mac is the best platform to use, or you may simply want to try out Ubuntu.

You should have your VirtualBox and the Extension Pack installed, or use my ansible role

In macintosh.js Felix puts Apple’s ancient Mac OS 8 system in the paws of the masses. The technical feat is made possible by JavaScript and everyone’s favourite¹ app creation framework Electron. This free-to-use-but-don’t-ask-me-if-Apple-approve version of Mac OS 8 runs like a champ on Windows, macOS and Linux (I tested it on the latter).

Step 4: Open VirtualBox and create a new VM.

Settings:

  • name: your_sierra_vm_name
  • type: Osx
  • version: Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan (64-bit)
  • Other

Step5: Configure VM for MacOS (Very important!)

Run following commands and replace “Sierra” with ‘your_sierra_vm_name’.

Step 6: Install Sierra

Insert sierra.iso to the sierra VM’s optical driver, and follow the instruction to install Sierra.

Note: In the installer, Go to Utilities > Disk Utility. Select the VirtualBox disk and choose Erase to format it as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) drive.

Step 7: Remove sierra.iso and restart VM.

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Fancy running Mac OS 8 on your modern Mac, Linux, or Windows 10 desktop as a standalone app?

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Of course you don’t 😉 but that hasn’t stopped Slack developer Felix Rieseberg from giving you (and the rest of the world) the unrequested ability to do it — and do it pretty darn well, I might add.

Having delivered an Electron-based version of Windows 95 in 2018, Felix is back with a new virtual machine package (and a new apology for creating it in the first place).

In macintosh.js Felix puts Apple’s ancient Mac OS 8 system in the paws of the masses. The technical feat is made possible by JavaScript and everyone’s favourite¹ app creation framework Electron.

This free-to-use-but-don’t-ask-me-if-Apple-approve version of Mac OS 8 runs like a champ on Windows, macOS and Linux (I tested it on the latter). It runs as a standalone app that boots to the OS directly, i.e. there’s no need to fuss around with installers, partitions, or set up dialogs).

“The virtual machine is emulating a 1991 Macintosh Quadra 900 with a Motorola CPU, which Apple used before switching to the PowerPC architecture (Apple/IBM/Motorola) in the mid 1990s,” Felix says of his effort.

A suite of era-specific software and games come bundled as trials, demos, etc. This roster even includes well-known tools like Adobe Photoshop 3, Adobe Premiere 4,Netscape Explorer, Duke Nukem 3D, and plenty more.

While there’s no working internet connectivity (meaning the bundled copy of Internet Explorer will go largely unloved) but aside from that it is a fully functional version of Mac OS 8. All of the apps work; this isn’t a superficial reconstruction that cracks beneath its veneer.

This works.

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If you want to try it out — and let’s be honest there are far worse ways to spend an idle 10 minute — you can do so quickly and easily. Just keep in mind that Macintosh.js is more of a nostalgic novelty rather than a serious attempt at platform resurrection, something Felix himself notes:

“[This is] not the best nor the most performant way to emulate an old Macintosh. It is, however, a quick and easy way to experience a bit of nostalgia if you’re not trying to do anything serious with it.”

You (and everyone else) can grab an installer from the project’s GitHub releases page.

¹ Jokes.

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  • Source: GitHub
  • (via: Engadget)