OSX Host vs Guest?
Posted: 19. Feb 2019, 22:06
I want to make this thread about all of the things you'd miss out on if you ran OSX as a guest instead of a host. I'm hoping I can get close enough to never run OSX as a host again (Apple hardware sucks for the price). Here are a list of some of the things I suspect might now work (or work as well). Perhaps your collective experience can help me confirm these things quickly:
1) CPUs -- seems OSX can take full advantage as a guest.
2) GPUs -- Adobe under OSX host cannot take good advantage, but FCX can - but as a guest will it be the same story?
3) Audio -- latency is good enough using Ableton Live and similar DACs on OSX hosts, but what about OSX guests?
4) Games -- doesn't matter to me, but maybe to others they do.
5) Software compatibility -- Seems like everything would work the same on guest as it does natively on a host.
6) Performance -- more potential memory, more potential GPU, more potential GPU (the question is, which can the guest not take advantage of).
Since it is a pain to have multiple host OSs, it may be a useful thread to collect information for people trying to decide if they want OSX as a host OS again. If we can get the benefits of OSX as a guest, then we don't have to deal with building a "hackintosh."
Thanks - and looking forward to hearing your wisdom
1) CPUs -- seems OSX can take full advantage as a guest.
2) GPUs -- Adobe under OSX host cannot take good advantage, but FCX can - but as a guest will it be the same story?
3) Audio -- latency is good enough using Ableton Live and similar DACs on OSX hosts, but what about OSX guests?
4) Games -- doesn't matter to me, but maybe to others they do.
5) Software compatibility -- Seems like everything would work the same on guest as it does natively on a host.
6) Performance -- more potential memory, more potential GPU, more potential GPU (the question is, which can the guest not take advantage of).
Since it is a pain to have multiple host OSs, it may be a useful thread to collect information for people trying to decide if they want OSX as a host OS again. If we can get the benefits of OSX as a guest, then we don't have to deal with building a "hackintosh."
Thanks - and looking forward to hearing your wisdom