OSX-KVM VS OSX-PROXMOX

Yes, I recently had to compile some stuff on Windows (I'm on an AMD Linux host) and VirtualBox just wouldn't start Microsoft's Windows dev VM (the one they provide for free for Virtualbox). I ended up learning how to use qemu and it works great...and as a bonus I was able to run a hackintosh (via https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM) and it works near flawlessly, which was something I was never able to accomplish with Virtualbox (granted I haven't tried in a few years).

I'm pretty happy with Qemu now, even if it's jsut a CLI interface. I was tempted to try the virt-* stuff, but honestly it seems like one more thing to learn so I'm going to hold off until I need something like copy/paste between VMs and can't figure it out in qemu direct.

Working on a patch to include it as a flake input instead of vendoring it in the repo, so this should no longer be true. I use the QCOW2s for OpenCore from osx-kvm that I have not figured out how to reproduce yet https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/master/OpenCore/OpenCore.qcow2

For almost a year, I have been coding a little project in Python intended to piggyback on the framework of kholia's OSX-KVM project, known as ultimate-macOS-KVM, or ULTMOS.

I just researched a bit, mac os x guest vm with pcie passthrough seems possible on linux.

Dropping the links below:

https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

https://github.com/yoonsikp/macOS-KVM-PCI-Passthrough

VirGL is definitely an interesting project, but all one has to do to get GPU passthrough working (from a Linux QEMU host to any guest OS) is: 1.) research a cheap, secondary GPU that is natively supported by the guest OS, 2.) plug such a secondary GPU into a PCIe slot on the host and hook it up to the primary monitor with a secondary cable (D-Sub vs. DVI, etc.), 3.) setup Linux to ignore the secondary GPU at boot and configure a QEMU VM for the GPU passthrough. The whole process takes perhaps one or two hours and as works flawlessly, with no stability issues. (Switching across the two GPU cables can be accomplished in software by using Display Data Channel /DDC/ utilities and switching keyboard/mouse can be accomplished by using evdev /event device/ passthrough.) More information: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/master/notes.md#gpu-p...

I get "verification failed" error when using https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

I also see there is KVM-OSX which looks to be actively maintained, but I haven't heard anything about it.

You can use qemu/libvirt/kvm on any Linux host to run macOS pretty easily these days[1]. I run Ventura on unraid with nvidea gpu passthrough and it’s been fairly painless.

You can also run macOS in docker, but it’s ultimately running through qemu/kvm as well[2]

1. https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

2. https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX

I think this could be of some use to you https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

i cloned that repository

I run macOS/OSX Sonoma in Proxmox. It does pcie/gpu passthrough (AMD rx580 8gb). The proxmox host is running a AMD Ryzen 7 5700G cpu and has 64gb memory. The mac vm disks are on a zfs fs on a wd black nvme ssd.

It's the fastest mac I've ever owned and it's virtual, executed on a machine running a chip that apple never supported, and you'd never be able to tell it was a vm unless you were told so. kvm and vfio are amazing pieces of software.

A good place to start: https://github.com/luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX

Resources: https://www.youtube.com/@HarveysVE That channel explains and demonstrate a lot of thing about Proxmox and Hackintosh. The most I do not explored yet https://github.com/luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX That is project of person from my country who run a Youtube Channel talking only about Hackintosh, Ryzentosh and Virtualized. The only problem at least on Youtube is that he don't speak english! But don't worry I can help you with his project if you need. That is the project who automate the process of Hackintosh on Proxmox that I told you earlier. good stuff! https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads/category/iso-images-pve Proxmox ISO Download

Proxmox is very easy with OSX-PROXMOX. If you are more advanced and understand linux, just go with any distro you are comfortable with but Arch/Fedora worked the best for me in the past and use OSX-KVM. Then there is Unraid for which there exists pretty simple Hackinabox scripts to get it working and very simply so but Unraid is a paid OS.

Here's my config, but its a standard config source, but heres the config anyway config

here's my config, but its a standard config (source: https://github.com/luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX) The config: https://pastebin.pl/view/8e7cf0bb

there is this method : https://github.com/luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX