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harel.mazor

15 Jan, 2019 10:02 PM

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone had tried to run a VM that runs iOS using appveyor?
I'm hoping to compile my iOS application that uses cordova cli and basically all it needs is a VM with iOS that has xcode.
Any suggestions how to do that, or if this is remotely possible?

Thanks,
Harel M.

1. 1 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 17 Jan, 2019 01:12 AM

   

   Do you have an experience doing this on your own computer? If yes, we can try to investigate how to automate it on AppVeyor.

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2. 2 Posted by harel.mazor on 17 Jan, 2019 06:41 AM

   

   I'm currently learning the subject.
   Mainly following this tutorial:
   http://www.wikigain.com/install-macos-sierra-10-12-virtualbox/
   I managed to download the file from google drive, install Virtual-Box 6. add the vmdk as a hard disk, and run the code that exists within the rar file to configure the image (I used the 5.x code).
   When I start it on my windows machine, it boots up and I was able to use it to download xcode, my code and compile it.
   But it is very far from something I can automate - for example I needed to log-in to my apple account and configure a password for the OS inside the VM...
   I would love to be able to automate it, I just don't have a clue where to start...
   Any help or insight would be appreciated.

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3. 3 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 17 Jan, 2019 09:37 AM

   

   As a shortcut we can enable private build cloud for you so you can have your own image with everything you need pre-installed. You can set up a build matrix with one job to run on AppVeyor as usual and another on your own cloud/image. If you do not want to spend on Hyper-V machine or some cloud VMs, you can even connect your own computer with "running builds as a local process approach" (but will not have clean VM for each build). More details here. Let us know if you are interested. It does not require any paid plan.

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4. 4 Posted by harel.mazor on 17 Jan, 2019 12:10 PM

   

   Thanks for the quick response!
   While this might work for me, I was hoping this can serve other users too.
   What you are suggesting is extracting all the proprietary stuff into a dedicated machine to do the work, I was hoping to be able to run all the steps I made on my PC from command line to run in the appveyor environment. I think it's possible but very complicated...

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5. 5 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 17 Jan, 2019 09:57 PM

   

   If you log-in to your Apple account and configure a password for the OS inside the VM, can you save this VM virtual disk and re-use it? In this case you can place it into some secure location and try to download to AppVeyor on the fly... Just an idea...

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6. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 20 Mar, 2019 09:01 PM.