VirtualSMC
SMC emulator layer (by acidanthera)
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| VirtualSMC | itlwm | |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 140 | |
| 1,649 | 6,657 | |
| 1.4% | 1.0% | |
| 4.5 | 8.2 | |
| 11 months ago | 12 days ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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
itlwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of itlwm.
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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Anyone got Bluetooth working in Sonoma with Intel AX200 NGW?
Try use airporttlwm.kext. Here
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ventura
Intel AC 8260 WiFi+BT - AirportItlwm + IntelBluetoothFirmware
- I'm finally in the T480 gang!
- itlwm stable 2.2.0 released
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Monterey on Latitude E7270 - no Wi-Fi
This was just released : https://github.com/OpenIntelWireless/itlwm/releases
- OpenIntelWireless itlwm v2.2.0 stable is out
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Trying my first Hackintosh
Yeah there is. I think it’s itlwm.
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MacOS Monterey on MSI GL62M 7RDX
What part I got an issue with: have to set SecureBootModel to 'Disabled' since i am using AirportItlwm for monterey
- Opencore bootloader is not booting up
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My first Successful Fresh Hackintosh on Asus H470-PLUS
Wifi is a little unreliable a few minutes after boot (waiting for AirportItlwm to be stable release)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing VirtualSMC and itlwm you can also consider the following projects:
Opencore-Vanilla-Desktop-Guide - Host for files for the OpenCore Vanilla Desktop Guide
Airportitlwm-kext - A IO80211 version of itlwm
Legacy-Kexts - Repo for misc legacy kexts
IntelBluetoothFirmware - Intel Bluetooth Kernel Extensions for macOS
VoodooPS2
rtl8821ce
OcBinaryData
HeliPort - Intel Wi-Fi Client for itlwm
Lilu - Arbitrary kext and process patching on macOS
HP-ProBook-430-G5-Hackintosh - OpenCore setup for running macOS BigSur beta on HP ProBook 430 G5
OpenCore-Install-Guide - Repo for the OpenCore Install Guide
VirtualSMC vs Opencore-Vanilla-Desktop-Guide
itlwm vs Airportitlwm-kext
VirtualSMC vs Legacy-Kexts
itlwm vs IntelBluetoothFirmware
VirtualSMC vs VoodooPS2
itlwm vs rtl8821ce
VirtualSMC vs OcBinaryData
itlwm vs HeliPort
VirtualSMC vs Lilu
itlwm vs HP-ProBook-430-G5-Hackintosh
VirtualSMC vs OpenCore-Install-Guide
itlwm vs OpenCore-Install-Guide