OpenCorePkg VS KVM-Opencore

Compare OpenCorePkg vs KVM-Opencore and see what are their differences.

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OpenCorePkg KVM-Opencore
185 36
12,736 1,138
1.4% -
9.2 2.8
5 days ago about 1 month ago
C Makefile
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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OpenCorePkg

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenCorePkg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenCorePkg and KVM-Opencore you can also consider the following projects:

OpenCore-Install-Guide - Repo for the OpenCore Install Guide

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

OcBinaryData

AMD_Vanilla - Native AMD macOS via OpenCore

gibMacOS - Py2/py3 script that can download macOS components direct from Apple

OSX-KVM - Personal fork for testing

itlwm - Intel Wi-Fi Drivers for macOS

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

ProperTree - Cross platform GUI plist editor written in python.

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

RestrictEvents

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