VoodooPS2-Chromebook
VoodooPS2 modified for Chromebook keys and keyboard backlight control (by one8three)
VirtualSMC
SMC emulator layer (by acidanthera)
| VoodooPS2-Chromebook | VirtualSMC | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | |
| 2 | 1,656 | |
| - | 0.4% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| 8 months ago | 2 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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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.
VoodooPS2-Chromebook
Posts with mentions or reviews of VoodooPS2-Chromebook.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-14.
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Success - Acer C720-3404 with Core i3 (OpenCore Mojave and Big Sur).
Keyboard is PS2 - there's a great voodoops2 fork to map the function keys to make sense to you, like brightness and volume.
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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing VoodooPS2-Chromebook and VirtualSMC you can also consider the following projects:
SSDTTime - SSDT/DSDT hotpatch attempts.
Opencore-Vanilla-Desktop-Guide - Host for files for the OpenCore Vanilla Desktop Guide
Legacy-Kexts - Repo for misc legacy kexts
VoodooPS2
OcBinaryData
Lilu - Arbitrary kext and process patching on macOS
OpenCore-Install-Guide - Repo for the OpenCore Install Guide
GenSMBIOS - Py script that uses acidanthera's macserial to generate SMBIOS and optionally saves them to a plist.
WhateverGreen - Various patches necessary for certain ATI/AMD/Intel/Nvidia GPUs
IntelMausi - Intel Ethernet LAN driver for macOS
tool - the USBToolBox tool
VoodooPS2-Chromebook vs SSDTTime
VirtualSMC vs Opencore-Vanilla-Desktop-Guide
VirtualSMC vs Legacy-Kexts
VirtualSMC vs VoodooPS2
VirtualSMC vs OcBinaryData
VirtualSMC vs Lilu
VirtualSMC vs OpenCore-Install-Guide
VirtualSMC vs GenSMBIOS
VirtualSMC vs WhateverGreen
VirtualSMC vs IntelMausi
VirtualSMC vs SSDTTime
VirtualSMC vs tool