Alternatives to macOS (dockur)
A Docker container that runs a macOS virtual machine through QEMU with KVM acceleration. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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macOS (dockur)
A Docker container that runs a macOS virtual machine through QEMU with KVM acceleration.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as macOS (dockur).
Docker-OSX
Runs a macOS virtual machine inside a Docker container using KVM on Linux.
Docker-OSX also runs macOS in a Docker container on KVM, but uses X11 forwarding for the display and provides a Helm chart for Kubernetes.
OSX-KVM
Scripts, OpenCore files and firmware images for running macOS in a QEMU/KVM virtual machine on Linux.
OSX-KVM runs macOS in QEMU/KVM on Linux without Docker, using OpenCore files and manual scripts rather than automatic downloads and a web viewer.
Quickemu
Downloads an operating system and builds a properly configured QEMU virtual machine from one short config file.
Quickemu downloads macOS images and builds a QEMU virtual machine from a config file on Linux or macOS hosts, run from the command line rather than a container.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Windows (dockur)
A Docker container that downloads, installs and runs Windows inside a KVM-accelerated virtual machine.
KVM
The Linux kernel's built-in hypervisor for hardware-accelerated virtual machines.
QEMU
The machine emulator and virtualiser that most of the Linux virtualisation stack is built on.
VirtualBuddy
Run macOS virtual machines on an Apple Silicon Mac.
Tart
A command-line toolset for building, running and managing macOS and Linux virtual machines on Apple Silicon.
