I'd assume that most build farms build on VMs to avoid exactly this kind of problem -- building on bare metal seems pretty risky.
I'd assume that most build farms build on VMs to avoid exactly this kind of problem -- building on bare metal seems pretty risky.
Are one allowed to run macOS on a VM that is not apple hardware. Can you just buy macOS and run it on a vm, or is it a gray area?
The SLA¹ for macOS 10.13 allows you to run up to 2 additional copies of macOS in virtual machines on your existing Mac hardware. So each Mac can run up to 3 copies of the OS in total. You may not run it on non-Mac hardware.
These links are fun:
People build Hackintoshes. I’ve personally run OSX VMs on both windows and macs and built a Hackintosh.
Note I am saying OS X, haven’t done this since MacOS.