KVM-Opencore VS WSL2-Linux-Kernel

Compare KVM-Opencore vs WSL2-Linux-Kernel and see what are their differences.

KVM-Opencore

OpenCore disk image for running macOS VMs on Proxmox/QEMU (by thenickdude)

WSL2-Linux-Kernel

linux-next-based WSL2 kernel (discontinued due to no longer using WSL2) (by nathanchance)
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KVM-Opencore WSL2-Linux-Kernel
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2.8 10.0
about 1 month ago over 1 year ago
Makefile C
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KVM-Opencore

Posts with mentions or reviews of KVM-Opencore. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-24.
  • Ventrua on Proxmox with GPU passthrough, Couldn't alloc class "AppleKeyStoreTest"
    1 project | /r/Proxmox | 27 May 2023
    The EFI folder is the same as v20 here
  • MacOS Ventura VM Safari not loading properly / rendering issue.
    1 project | /r/hackintosh | 17 May 2023
  • Ventura Installation: vm_shared_region_start_address() failed
    2 projects | /r/macOSVMs | 24 Mar 2023
    Build v19 from u/thenickdude
  • Suggestions for VGA mode
    2 projects | /r/qemu_kvm | 5 Feb 2023
    #!/usr/bin/env bash # Special thanks to: # https://github.com/Leoyzen/KVM-Opencore # https://github.com/thenickdude/KVM-Opencore/ # https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/docs/usb2.txt # # qemu-img create -f qcow2 mac_hdd_ng.img 128G # # echo 1 > /sys/module/kvm/parameters/ignore_msrs (this is required) ############################################################################ # NOTE: Tweak the "MY_OPTIONS" line in case you are having booting problems! ############################################################################ MY_OPTIONS="+ssse3,+sse4.2,+popcnt,+avx,+aes,+xsave,+xsaveopt,check" # This script works for Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra. Tested with # macOS 10.15.6, macOS 10.14.6, and macOS 10.13.6. ALLOCATED_RAM="7096" # MiB CPU_SOCKETS="1" CPU_CORES="8" CPU_THREADS="8" REPO_PATH="." OVMF_DIR="." # shellcheck disable=SC2054 args=( -enable-kvm -m "$ALLOCATED_RAM" -cpu Penryn,kvm=on,vendor=GenuineIntel,+invtsc,vmware-cpuid-freq=on,"$MY_OPTIONS" -machine q35 -usb -device usb-kbd -device usb-tablet -smp "$CPU_THREADS",cores="$CPU_CORES",sockets="$CPU_SOCKETS" -device usb-ehci,id=ehci # -device usb-kbd,bus=ehci.0 # -device usb-mouse,bus=ehci.0 -device nec-usb-xhci,id=xhci -global nec-usb-xhci.msi=off # -device usb-host,vendorid=0x8086,productid=0x0808 # 2 USD USB Sound Card # -device usb-host,vendorid=0x1b3f,productid=0x2008 # Another 2 USD USB Sound Card # -device vfio-pci,host=3:00.0,bus=pcie.0 -device isa-applesmc,osk="ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc" -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly=on,file="$REPO_PATH/$OVMF_DIR/OVMF_CODE.fd" -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file="$REPO_PATH/$OVMF_DIR/OVMF_VARS-1024x768.fd" -smbios type=2 -device ich9-intel-hda -device hda-duplex -device ich9-ahci,id=sata -drive id=OpenCoreBoot,if=none,snapshot=on,format=qcow2,file="$REPO_PATH/OpenCore/OpenCore.qcow2" -device ide-hd,bus=sata.2,drive=OpenCoreBoot -device ide-hd,bus=sata.3,drive=InstallMedia -drive id=InstallMedia,if=none,file="$REPO_PATH/BaseSystem.img",format=raw -drive id=MacHDD,if=none,file="$REPO_PATH/mac_hdd_ng.img",format=qcow2 -device ide-hd,bus=sata.4,drive=MacHDD # -netdev tap,id=net0,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:c9:18:27 -netdev user,id=net0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:c9:18:27 # -netdev user,id=net0 -device vmxnet3,netdev=net0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:c9:18:27 # Note: Use this line for High Sierra -monitor stdio -device VGA,vgamem_mb=128 ) qemu-system-x86_64 "${args[@]}"
  • Proxmox Bootloop macos 13
    1 project | /r/macOSVMs | 29 Dec 2022
  • MacOS KVM GPU Passthrough Hangs
    4 projects | /r/VFIO | 7 Nov 2022
  • Catalina on the desktop proxmox?
    1 project | /r/Proxmox | 9 Oct 2022
    If that's my OpenCore ISO, I rechecked High Sierra recently with v18 and it boots fine.
  • Bare Metal vs Virtualization dual boot
    2 projects | /r/hackintosh | 27 Jul 2022
    The mid/hard way would be to have a powerful PC like I did recently, switch to Linux as the host, and use it as your main OS and then for specific stuff, turn on the Windows or OSX machines. The problem here is that you have to deal with Linux and its quirks... editing files with the terminal, sudo, setting up QEMU, editing the libvirt XML files (or create your own bash scripts for QEMU) and so on... It feels like a hassle sometimes, and getting OSX to work in a virtual environment is a hit or miss - there's a few projects out there that can help) but then getting them to work is like running a command and having it contained in its own "window" and you can also share files between the host and the VM almost seamlessly.
  • Windows 10 on MacOS Host?
    1 project | /r/VFIO | 21 Jul 2022
  • anyone able to boot big sur on coreboot/tianocore? i get reboots maybe because of bad dsdt in coreboot
    2 projects | /r/hackintosh | 20 Jul 2022
    What are you using to create VM? You don't need to configure these two: macOS Simple KVM OpenCore KVM

WSL2-Linux-Kernel

Posts with mentions or reviews of WSL2-Linux-Kernel. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-07.
  • Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2022
    Quite a strange limitation in my opinion. I understand that dealing with subnetting/host network rebinding to allow full IPv6 can be a challenge (especially if you're on DHCPv6 or some other manually managed thing instead of normal SLAAC) but surely Microsoft could use whatever NAT solution they use for IPv4 to work on IPv6 as well?

    Apparently support for the protocol can already be enabled (https://github.com/nathanchance/WSL2-Linux-Kernel/issues/25). This makes it technically possible to use a WireGuard tunnel for IPv6 support, at least...

  • How to install robo3t on Ubuntu WSL, Windows 11
    4 projects | /r/bashonubuntuonwindows | 2 Sep 2022
  • Download size.
    3 projects | /r/bashonubuntuonwindows | 17 May 2022
    I think you might be able to start with an even more minimal rootfs than that one if you used Distrod (plus you'd end up with a WSL2 Ubuntu distro that has systemd working (then also use a custom kernel like this or this for snapd, apparmor etc support - their latest versions are 11.7 and 12.4 MB each).
  • Windows x MaxOS KVM under Linux VS dual booting
    2 projects | /r/hackintosh | 30 Jan 2022
    Requirement seems to be Win11 though, and you do need to update the WSL2 kernel to the latest one in their repo ( https://github.com/nathanchance/WSL2-Linux-Kernel/releases ) I used v63. This fixes the reboot loop the QEMU VM goes after/during OSX XNU kernel boot.
  • PSA Reminder about GUI support for new users: W10, W11 and WSLg
    1 project | /r/bashonubuntuonwindows | 9 Dec 2021
    The culprit was the kernel. Bleeding-edge based on https://github.com/nathanchance/WSL2-Linux-Kernel. The default 5.10.60 works.
  • Use USB devices from within WSL
    1 project | /r/bashonubuntuonwindows | 4 Nov 2021
    Good that I already run my own kernel anyway based on https://github.com/nathanchance/WSL2-Linux-Kernel

What are some alternatives?

When comparing KVM-Opencore and WSL2-Linux-Kernel you can also consider the following projects:

macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.

wsl-distrod - Distrod is a meta-distro for WSL 2 which installs Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, etc. with systemd in a minute for you. Distrod also has built-in auto-start feature on Windows startup and port forwarding ability.

AMD_Vanilla - Native AMD macOS via OpenCore

WSL2-Linux-Kernel - The source for the Linux kernel used in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2)

OSX-KVM - Personal fork for testing

dark-robomongo - Native cross-platform MongoDB management tool

vendor-reset - Linux kernel vendor specific hardware reset module for sequences that are too complex/complicated to land in pci_quirks.c

community - Public feedback discussions for: GitHub Mobile, GitHub Discussions, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Issues and more!

OSX_GVT-D - Guide to pass iGPU to MacOS KVM guest.

OpenCorePkg - OpenCore bootloader

proxmox-plugin - Use Proxmox virtual machines as agents in Jenkins.

OSX-KVM - Run macOS on QEMU/KVM. With OpenCore + Monterey + Ventura + Sonoma support now! Only commercial (paid) support is available now to avoid spammy issues. No Mac system is required.