I'm also wondering if you can run big Sur as a guest os on a older Parallels/Macos host system. I'll give that a try too.
Mike On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 08:05 mike smith <meski...@gmail.com> wrote: > How about running Big Sur on a VMWARE (or similar) system? There's some > Hackintosh links around as well, for running it directly on non apple > hardware. I'm getting tired of the Apple ecosystem refusing to allow > updates, and apps refusing to upgrade unless you have the latest sparkling > new Apples. > > > https://shaadlife.com/macos-big-sur-on-vmware/?amp > > > Mike > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 05:25 Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> After more research about the dependencies around the Xamarin.iOS >> ecosystem I am pretty sure that I have hit a wall of dominos 5-deep. It >> goes like this: >> >> VS2019 Community for Mac 8.10.11 (8) >> comes with --> Xamarin.iOS 15.0.0.6 >> needs --> Xcode 13 >> needs --> macOS Big Sur 11.3 >> needs --> *(some iMac)* >> >> My iMac is a 27-inch, Late 2013, 3.2GHz i5 running Catalina 10.15.7 and I >> am not being offered or allowed any more OS updates. I've asked a Genius >> friend to confirm this. If true, then I actually have hit the wall and will >> need a new Mac. >> >> If I could downgrade to Xamarin.iOS 14.14 then everything would be back >> in-range again, but apparently that would require downgrading VS2019 as >> well and it gets really messy. >> >> *Greg K* >> >>>
