I’ve recently written a small program in Python, which I would like to package for various environments. Namely:

  • RPM
  • Arch Linux
  • FreeBSD
  • AppImage
  • Windows
  • macOS

I do not run Windows and my Mac hasn’t been updated since 2008, so virtualisation seems to be the best solution. However, all of my boxes are relatively low-performance, so I have not yet managed to get a decent install of Windows 10 in virt-manager.

So, can anyone suggest some versions or mods of Windows, or an alternate method, that would let me run Py2EXE and InnoSetup?

And does anyone have a guide on installing macOS under KVM or QEMU?

  • @TCB13English
    3•9 months ago

    And does anyone have a guide on installing macOS under KVM or QEMU?

    It isn’t that hard (https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM) but unless you have a compatible GPU to pass to the macOS VM it will be barely usable. macOS doesn’t play very nice without GPU acceleration and virtual GPUs aren’t supported by macOS.

  • @[email protected]
    1•9 months ago

    can anyone suggest some versions or mods of Windows, or an alternate method, that would let me run Py2EXE and InnoSetup?

    https://reactos.org/

    might work for you, and it might not. But do let us know if it does!

    does anyone have a guide on installing macOS under KVM or QEMU?

    https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

    sort of works some of the time. I personally didn’t find it satisfactory for my use case. It might be suitable for you.

    • Hellfire103OPEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      I never had much luck with ReactOS, but I’ll give it a shot.

      Thanks for the help!