OK I found out after I got home for lunch.

Its just a script that reaches out to my old mac mini that does the build in a VM. New VM each time. It was good enough for my purposes. The windows runner for Xamarin worked without issues in .net with windows runners. So just two physical boxes I would spin up on the fly. I thought it was more but that was it. I stopped using it a while back and just use linux for builds now since thats mostly my day job. I stopped doing other env work a bit ago.

Hope that helps!

don't mac/ios runners require an actual mac/ios device ?

I don't do apple stuff so i'm not sure.

I recall there was a way... But its coming up blank. Im at work so ill try looking it up. It mifht be a custom thing i set up years ago....or just an old intel mac with tools setup.