A complete macOS Sonoma (14.5) virtual machine

[lgrachov]

Hi there UTM users! Here is your guide for macOS virtual machines and what I have tried on my macOS 14.5 virtual machine

What I have tried

Running DOSBox-X

Troubleshooting

If you get a fatal error like this one:

then you are running it from the dosbox-x directory. You need to run it from the dosbox-x-sdl2 folder.

Synthesia

Works perfectly fine. No troubleshooting needed.

Synthesia.mov

Why is there no audio?

macOS screen recordings don't include the system audio. This is a known issue and I did not want to tinker with other screen recording applications like Monosnap. The audio actually does work in Synthesia.

Shortcuts

Shortcuts is the app I used to make the collage for Geekbench 6. Here is the image (I could not sign into iCloud (this is a known bug) so remake the shortcut yourself :D):

Collage shorctut

I did some benchmarks on my virtual machine! Geekbench 6 on UTM

CPU
Here is the link: VirtualMac2,1 CPU

GPU

Note

OpenCL is not supported in UTM (and probably even Virtualisation.framework).
The GPU test does not work. Here is the result (when it does not work):

GPUBenchmarkFailure.mov

Guide

Setting up disk space

Set somewhere about 50 gb of disk space for the virtual machine.

Memory

Set half of your available memory on your Mac or set 40 gigabytes if you have more than 100 gigabytes of memory on your host.

Shared files

You can make a second folder to share with the host in your user folder. Example: ~/macOS VM Files

Fun fact

I updated my host to a MacBook Pro M3 Pro purely just for virtual machines :D

Screenshots

About this Mac