VirtualSMC
SMC emulator layer (by acidanthera)
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OpenCore bootloader (by acidanthera)
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VirtualSMC | OpenCorePkg | |
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13 | 185 | |
1,649 | 12,746 | |
1.4% | 1.5% | |
4.5 | 9.3 | |
11 months ago | 3 days ago | |
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BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
VirtualSMC
Posts with mentions or reviews of VirtualSMC.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-01.
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ventura
Battery percentage - SMCBatteryManager,ECEnabler
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Success! Ventura on Ryzen 7 PRO 3700, Radeon RX 6600 and Gigabyte B550M AORUS PRO-P
## Hardware: - CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 - GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600 8 GB - RAM: 4x 8 GB 3200 MHz - Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M AORUS PRO-P - Audio Codec: ALC1200 / Disabled in BIOS / USB Headset - Ethernet Card: Realtek RTL8125B - Wifi/BT Card: None - BIOS revision: Latest / f15d ## Details: - Bootloader: OpenCore 0.9.1 - Guide followed: [dortania's OpenCore Install Guide](https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/) - What's working: Absolutely all what I need + iCloud - What's not: All AppleHV Hypervisors (VirtualBox 6.x works on Ventura with some [hacks](https://forum.amd-osx.com/threads/virtual-machine-software-that-works-with-amd-hackintoshes.3460/post-26028)) - Kexts used: - [Lilu](https://github.com/acidanthera/Lilu) - [Virtual SMC](https://github.com/acidanthera/VirtualSMC) - [Whatever Green](https://github.com/acidanthera/WhateverGreen) - [Apple MCE Reporter Disabler](https://github.com/acidanthera/bugtracker/files/3703498/AppleMCEReporterDisabler.kext.zip) - [Restrict Events](https://github.com/acidanthera/RestrictEvents) - [AMD Ryzen CPU Power Management + SMC AMD Processor](https://github.com/trulyspinach/SMCAMDProcessor) - [Radeon Sensors + SMC Radeon GPU](https://github.com/aluveitie/RadeonSensor) - [Lucy RTL8125 Ethernet](https://github.com/Mieze/LucyRTL8125Ethernet) - [USB ToolBox](https://github.com/USBToolBox/tool)
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Success! Ventura 13.3 on Ryzen 7 PRO 3700, Radeon RX 6600 8 GB and Gigabyte B550M AORUS PRO-P
Virtual SMC
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MacOS Catalina with OpenCore stuck on Apple Logo
You need to include VirtualSMC.kext in your kext folder and your config.plist.
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Success! | Hackintosh | OpenCore 0.7.6 | Monterey 12.1 | 10th Gen i7-10700F | ASRock H570 Phantom Gaming 4 | Radeon RX 580 | SSD SATA Samsung 850 EVO
VirtualSMC.kext, SMCProcessor.kext, SMCSuperIO.kext
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Update From Catalina to Monterey
VirtualSMC: https://github.com/acidanthera/VirtualSMC/releases
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Having problems with hackintosh, more info in comments - please help!
Here.
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GA-Z270N-WIFI + RX 580 with Big Sur on Open Core
VirtualSMC.kext
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ECEnabler: No more ACPI patches for battery! (Sorta)
Dual battery users may get one of the batteries showing, check these https://github.com/acidanthera/VirtualSMC/blob/master/Docs/SSDT-BATC.dsl https://github.com/acidanthera/VirtualSMC/blob/master/Docs/Dual%20Battery%20Support.md
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Success - Acer C720-3404 with Core i3 (OpenCore Mojave and Big Sur).
I was happy to see the battery didn't have larger than 8-bit registers, so no battery ACPI patching required, yay. You just need to install SMCBatteryManager.kext
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.
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iOS Wi-Fi Profile Generator
Here's a large example with nested arrays and dicts, integers, strings, etc:
https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/blob/master/Docs/...
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Beeper Mini Is Back
The hackintosh community has tools to generate those #s. e.g. https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/tree/master/Utili...
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[HOW TO] OpenCore 0.9.6 >> 0.9.7 differences
OpenCore 0.9.7 is out. You can get it from Acidanthera.
- Mac pro 4.1/5.1 whats everyone else running?
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[HOW TO] OpenCore 0.9.5 >> 0.9.6 differences
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
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ventura
acidanthera for OpenCore and half the kexts here
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Ode to the M1
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
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issues i have with opencore bootloader (read below)
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/
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Ventura Update stuck on [EB|#LOG:EXITBS:START] (Haswell)
You also seem to be using an older version of OpenCore, so updating that would be a good idea if you get the GPU issue sorted.
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Booting Windows error: OCB: StartImage failed - Already started - what to do under BlessOverride?
This is due to OpenCore getting confused when trying to boot Windows and accidentally thinking it's booting OpenCore. This can be avoided by either move Windows to it's own drive or adding a custom drive path under BlessOverride. See Configuration.pdf (opens new window)for more details.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing VirtualSMC and OpenCorePkg you can also consider the following projects:
Opencore-Vanilla-Desktop-Guide - Host for files for the OpenCore Vanilla Desktop Guide
OpenCore-Install-Guide - Repo for the OpenCore Install Guide
Legacy-Kexts - Repo for misc legacy kexts
OcBinaryData
VoodooPS2
gibMacOS - Py2/py3 script that can download macOS components direct from Apple
itlwm - Intel Wi-Fi Drivers for macOS
Lilu - Arbitrary kext and process patching on macOS
ProperTree - Cross platform GUI plist editor written in python.
RestrictEvents
VirtualSMC vs Opencore-Vanilla-Desktop-Guide
OpenCorePkg vs OpenCore-Install-Guide
VirtualSMC vs Legacy-Kexts
OpenCorePkg vs OcBinaryData
VirtualSMC vs VoodooPS2
OpenCorePkg vs gibMacOS
VirtualSMC vs OcBinaryData
OpenCorePkg vs itlwm
VirtualSMC vs Lilu
OpenCorePkg vs ProperTree
VirtualSMC vs OpenCore-Install-Guide
OpenCorePkg vs RestrictEvents