machineglow t1_jdap1ww wrote on March 23, 2023 at 1:02 AM

I just got bluebubbles server running on a bigsur VM and it’s been running without issues for the last week. Seems to me way more useful than phone link.

I highly recommend it.

https://bluebubbles.app

tw33k_ t1_jdbab32 wrote on March 23, 2023 at 3:49 AM

Second this. Been using it for months, great workaround! I’m lucky enough to have a spare pc running as a server that hosts the VM as well, so it’s not using up main/gaming pc resources.

_N0S t1_jdcsche wrote on March 23, 2023 at 1:59 PM

How did you get the Bigsur VM to run?

machineglow t1_jdebvl6 wrote on March 23, 2023 at 7:55 PM

I run an unraid server and there's a docker app built by someone in the community that makes it easy to spin up a macos VM (called macinabox). So that's what I used. It's basically a pre-canned way to booting opencore, downloading macOS iso, and mounting everything so that it installed on the VM disk.

It's kinda flakey and i had to update opencore before it became stable. so far so good. crossing fingers.

Gcdm t1_jdcvigs wrote on March 23, 2023 at 2:21 PM

How’s this compared to AirMessage?

machineglow t1_jdebgvd wrote on March 23, 2023 at 7:52 PM

never heard of airmessage. but i think functionally it's similar, Except bluebubbles has a windows client which I end up using.

Gcdm t1_jdf8yo8 wrote on March 23, 2023 at 11:34 PM

I might switch to that, I’ve been using Windows Subsystem for Android to use iMessage on my windows machine.