First off, you can only emulate macOS on hardware running macOS. It’s not widely known, but VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop can run virtual versions of macOS, too. But what about those old Mac apps that are going to be obsolete soon? And what about those apps you abandoned when you upgraded to Mountain Lion or Mavericks or Yosemite or El Capitan? Running Windows apps can be really convenient if you rely on them.
#MAC EMULATOR FOR OLDER OS SOFTWARE#
Since both macOS and Windows use Intel processors, this isn’t emulation (where the software is pretending to be computer’s processor itself), but it’s still virtualization, since Windows and its apps think they’re inside a Windows PC when they’re really inside an app running on a Mac. If you’re a Mac user, you may know virtualization from apps like VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop, both of which let you run Windows apps while you’re also running macOS.
It’s virtual reality for computers: There’s an entire pretend computer that’s actually a program on a different computer. The Linux server I run my entire business on is, in fact, one of many virtualized servers running on a much larger piece of hardware. But emulation (and its cousin, virtualization) can also be used legally to do all sorts of useful things.
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