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Nope. There's only ever been Intel x86 apple computers so x86 mac software is Intel specific. Most things work fine on AMD, but some things don't work without hacks, such as digital audio workstations, some adobe applications etc. And you can't run hypervisors on an AMD hackintosh, the work around for docker is to install an old version of virtualbox and make it emulate instead.

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> And you can't run hypervisors on an AMD hackintosh

But isn't the use case here running macOS in Docker on a AMD-based computer for example? So macOS would only see what QEMU presents it.

Or are you talking about virtualization within that container? Then I probably misunderstood.

I was referring to baremetal, but the same applies if virtualized on an AMD host

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