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Hackintosh projects on GitHub

Running macOS on non-Apple hardware through VMs and bootloaders.

As of , the most-starred Hackintosh projects on GitHub are OSX-KVM (23.7K stars), OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher (18.6K stars) and quickemu (16.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 6 Hackintosh repositories with 91.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was nvidia-macos-driver, with +84 stars in a day.

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91.6KStars in total
+133Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+84

nvidia-macos-driver

nullmoth/nvidia-macos-driver · ★ 3.2K

A free, open-source Metal driver that lets NVIDIA Turing-and-later GeForce/RTX/Quadro cards act as a fully supported GPU on Intel Macs running macOS 15 Sequoia via OpenCore, covering desktop rendering, Metal apps, games, Core ML/MPS and OpenCL.

+14

quickemu

quickemu-project/quickemu · ★ 16.5K

Quickemu is a command-line wrapper around QEMU that creates and runs optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines. You pick the OS; quickget downloads it and quickemu handles the configuration and launch.

+13

OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher

dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher · ★ 18.6K

A Python-based tool built on Acidanthera's OpenCore and Lilu that revives Macs Apple no longer supports: it lets you install and run macOS Big Sur or newer on hardware as old as 2007.

+11

OpenCorePkg

acidanthera/OpenCorePkg · ★ 15.6K

OpenCorePkg is OpenCore, a UEFI bootloader bundled with a development SDK, best known for booting and patching macOS on non-Apple hardware, while also providing shared UEFI libraries used by other Acidanthera projects.

The all-time top

6 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · kholia/OSX-KVM

    OSX-KVM

    Scripts and OpenCore configuration for running macOS as a virtual machine under QEMU/KVM on a Linux host, supporting recent macOS versions such as Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma.

    23.7K
  2. #2 · dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher

    OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher

    A Python-based tool built on Acidanthera's OpenCore and Lilu that revives Macs Apple no longer supports: it lets you install and run macOS Big Sur or newer on hardware as old as 2007.

    18.6K
  3. #3 · quickemu-project/quickemu

    quickemu

    Quickemu is a command-line wrapper around QEMU that creates and runs optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines. You pick the OS; quickget downloads it and quickemu handles the configuration and launch.

    16.5K
  1. 4

    OpenCorePkg

    15.6Kacidanthera/OpenCorePkg · C

    OpenCorePkg is OpenCore, a UEFI bootloader bundled with a development SDK, best known for booting and patching macOS on non-Apple hardware, while also providing shared UEFI libraries used by other Acidanthera projects.

  2. 5

    macOS-Simple-KVM

    13.9Kfoxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM · Shell

    A set of scripts and tools for setting up a macOS virtual machine in QEMU, accelerated by KVM, so you can run macOS on a Linux host.

  3. 6

    nvidia-macos-driver

    3.2Knullmoth/nvidia-macos-driver · Rust

    A free, open-source Metal driver that lets NVIDIA Turing-and-later GeForce/RTX/Quadro cards act as a fully supported GPU on Intel Macs running macOS 15 Sequoia via OpenCore, covering desktop rendering, Metal apps, games, Core ML/MPS and OpenCL.

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