To easily manage your virtual machines, you can create a folder named KVM that will contain the macOS virtual machine. You can use this directory to host other virtual machines on your system. Creating a KVM Folder for Your Virtual Machines The unzip tool will save the extracted command folder as macOS-Simple-KVM-master. Use the unzip command-line utility to extract the contents of the package. The downloaded packages will be saved as master.zip in the /Downloads folder.
Then download the project using the wget utility: wget Switch to the /Downloads folder to make it the current working directory. This guide uses the foxlet project on GitHub to ease out the installation process of macOS and management of the virtual machine with QEMU/KVM.įirst, you'll have to download the macOS base image and installation tools from foxlets' official GitHub repository. Running virtual machines will provide you so with many other benefits as well.Īfter you have finished testing a QEMU/KVM virtual machine and no longer need it, you can easily delete the virtual disk file associated with the virtual machine.ĭownloading macOS and the Installation Tools You can also use a GUI interface with QEMU/KVM, and the preferred GUI manager of choice is virt-manager. Also, creating virtual machines from the command line has never been simpler with QEMU. The major advantage of QEMU is that it is very easy to set up and manage. Users often use QEMU alongside KVM as it provides a natively implemented virtual machine on the Linux kernel.
QEMU is a virtual machine emulator and virtualizer which is quite similar to VMware and VirtualBox on Windows.
With that, you will be able to use native macOS software that is not otherwise available in Linux.
This guide will show you how to install macOS on Ubuntu Linux using a QEMU-KVM Virtual Machine. Besides, you can rest assured that if something goes wrong with the virtual machine, it won't break your existing host operating system. They primarily allow us to test and use different operating systems without the need for extra hardware. Then you will have to answer some simple questions during installation ,if you are not sure then select the default(hit Enter or answer y in y/n case).That’s All.you have installed the mac os x theme on Ubuntu 10.10.You may want to restart the system for optimal performance.(although it is not strictly required) Posted by Ramesh Jha MaMaPosted in GNOME, Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu 10.Virtual machines are very important in computing and software engineering. Step #1 : Download the Macbuntu-10.10 theme package(Link is given below)įirst,Extract the theme and move on to that directory.Then open terminal ( hit CTRL+ALT+T ) and execute the ‘install.sh’ script(as a normal user i.e without sudo),that you get within the theme package(After Extraction).Just drag the install.sh,and drop it to terminal,then hit enter.
To get the mac appearance on Ubuntu 10.10, you need to download and install the macbuntu-10.10(complete package for transforming the default look of gnome desktop into mac like look and appearance) is free and will take a couple of minutes.Just follow the steps – Let’s take a look on how your Ubuntu will look like,after installing the mac theme – A snapshot of my Ubuntu 10.10 with Mac Theme appearance of Mac OS X + performance of Ubuntu 10.10 = Macbuntu 10.10(it really rocks!) If you have ever used Mac OS then you probably understands why it is so popular(may be due to its highly appealing look).So won’t it be interesting if we make a Hybrid version of OS by combining the best features of Mac OS X and Ubuntu 10.10 ? Surely Yes!! Okay lets do that. The default look and appearance of Ubuntu 10.10 is very appealing(because there are lot of good looking themes,installed by default e.g Radiance,Ambiance,NewWave,Dust,clearlooks etc) but there is nothing wrong in doing some experiment in customizing it(Since there is no limit on how much we can customize an open source application on an open source operating system it is fun!). Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) comes with GNOME as a default desktop(Actually GNOME desktop is used in most of the Linux based distributions).GNOME is a open source,free and fully customizable.