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Linux, macOS, and Windows running simultaneously on a 1st generation
Core i5 and 8GB RAM

Published by Luke M on 2021-04-11 00:00:00 +0000

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macOS Mojave, Windows 10, and Arch Linux with XFCE showing their
About dialogs

This is my Thinkpad T410 with a 1st generation Intel Core i5 and 8 GB
of RAM. It runs Arch Linux with Xfce.

The macOS Mojave (chosen over Catalina or Big Sur for it's lower
resource usage) VM works surprisingly well with 3GB RAM, but even
when the Windows VM was allocated that much, it was very sluggish.

The Windows installation was very easy. All you have to do is
download the ISO from Microsoft, and fill in your username, password,
and product key in the "Express Installation" feature of Gnome Boxes.

For MacOS, you can use the excellent scripts by foxlet to
automatically download the image from Apple and provision a QEMU
virtual machine. The installation will take some time. Once you have
installed macOS using the onscreen menus, you need to select the
fourth option in the Clover Bootloader, Boot macOS from x. The first
option will boot the install media again. I didn't take screenshots
of the install process.

If you want me to write more about this, contact me!

Neofetch on all systems Neofetch

This website on all systems My Website

htop on the physical machine

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