OpenCorePkg VS KVM-Opencore

> I don't really care what Apple does on this regard, they were always doing things differently. IIRC, even Macs that supported EFI, only supported EFI 1.1, not 2.0, no?

Yup, but as long as you got an original Apple GPU that's enough to just stick a Windows or Linux USB stick and you can install straight from the stick. "Normal" PCI GPUs have to be reflashed with a GOP blob [1] so that Apple's EFI implementation can work with it.

Personally, I just went and installed OpenCore once and that's it.

[1] https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/tree/master/Stagi...

Step #2: Now we need a recovery image for macOS. To get this, visit https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg, and download the latest release from the releases page. After downloading, extract the files, and head to Utilities/macrecovery. There, if you don’t have Python installed, then this is a perfect time to install it. Open the file named recovery_urls.txt and copy the first line under latest, or copy the line under a specific version. If you’re on Windows, open Command Prompt as admin and paste the command you just copied and add download on the very end. This would download a folder named com.apple.recovery.boot. Now, if you’re on Windows, install Rufus and open it. (If you can’t install Rufus, then skip everything until the :), then just you will have to format the flash drive as FAT32 manually.). Then insert a flash drive with a minimum of 1GB and configure Rufus as shown:

Here's a large example with nested arrays and dicts, integers, strings, etc:

https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/blob/master/Docs/...

The hackintosh community has tools to generate those #s. e.g. https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/tree/master/Utili...

OpenCore 0.9.7 is out. You can get it from Acidanthera.

OpenCore 0.9.6 is out. Although there is only 1 change in config.plist (useful only for Max OS X 10.4 and 10.5), the code continues to receive improvements and fixes.https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/releases

acidanthera for OpenCore and half the kexts here

I just installed MacOS Ventura yesterday on a 2013 MacBook Pro by using OpenCore. Worth checking out if you haven’t already considered it: https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg#readme

IF you don't have opencore downloaded, don't download from their link, go directly to the dortania guide here and download version 0.9.2: https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/releases/

The EFI folder is the same as v20 here

Build v19 from u/thenickdude

If that's my OpenCore ISO, I rechecked High Sierra recently with v18 and it boots fine.

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.

What are you using to create VM? You don't need to configure these two: macOS Simple KVM OpenCore KVM