kryptonite VS macOS-Simple-KVM

Additionally, using Kryptonite and a Thunderbolt 1/2 <<—>> Thunderbolt 3 adapter and an eGPU, you could even do eGPU gaming on like a Radeon Vega or Radeon RX 5600 in an eGPU and have an external monitor for gaming!

I have a Late 2012 Mac Mini running a RX480. All I needed was Kryptonite. You don't need Windows. These cards work just fine in Mac OS.

Yes, it is possible. You need to use the Apple adapter, and you will also need to install Kryptonite.

For Mac OS what you're after is Kryptonite. Be sure to read the FAQ very, very carefully to understand which configurations will be supported.

Unless you add DisplayLink "USB video card" https://www.displaylink.com/products/ (not great for video, can be laggy) or manage to make eGPU work via TB2 (e.g., like in https://egpu.io/forums/builds/2017-13-macbook-air-5th-2c-u-rx460-16gbps-tb3tb2-razer-core-x-macos-10-15-4-steve_pan/ + https://github.com/mayankk2308/kryptonite) - only one external monitor will be supported.

Apple TB2-TB3 adapter will only allow working with Thunderbolt devices. I succeeded connecting to eGPU (Razer Core X + RX580, but required hacks like https://github.com/mayankk2308/kryptonite), older TB3 Alpine Ridge (CalDigit TS3+) and newer TB3 Alpine Ridge docks on my MBP 2015 13". But it's expensive and dock will support only one display output anyway - using TB3 downstream port allows to connect monitors like M14 (because dock's downstream TB actually supports USB-C DP, unlike Apple TB2-TB3 adapter directly).

But if you buy Apple TB2-TB3 adapter https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MQ26QIY and TB2 cable https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YHUBV6Q - you can connect some TB3 devices. It doesn't seem to support USB3 Type-C (even simpler SSDs, let alone DP Alt Mode devices like 40AS). In my experience, TB3 docks (both older Alpine Ridge and newer Titan Ridge) have a chance to work - I tried MBP early 2015 13" with CalDigit TS3+ and Plugable TBT3-UDZ and single 4K 60Hz + USB3 worked. So potentially there is a chance to make 40AC or 40AN work in the same way, but I didn't try those (let me know if you want me to try 40AN0135US or 40AC0135US). eGPU can also work with these machines with some hacks like https://github.com/mayankk2308/kryptonite. (I had an older version of the hack installed on MBP I was trying TB3 docks)

I'm a 30 year linux veteran and windows free for over 22. I di d have a windows vm for some time because I have some music stuff that doesn't work with linux, like a nord keyboard and some guitar stuff.

But i burnt the vm with fire when I found https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

I've heard a lot of buzz for MacOS-Simple-KVM but I see there hasb't been an update in 3 years.

You could always get a regular PC laptop, install linux on it and run your macos/windows vms via https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM qemu kvm, supports full hardware acceleration and should be able to do nested vms just fine, i run a macos vm on my desktop for work and a hardware accelerated windows vm for gaming

Then, i came across this tool https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM. However, it seems like it's asking me to install a different package for QEMU. sudo apt-get install qemu-system qemu-utils python3 python3-pip. Thankfully, I was able to create a Mac VM with this tool.

His github project " https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM "

git clone https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM.git /home/Downloads

You can virtualize mac os, but I would call it easy

I did the Windows passthrough with some problems but I got it to work and then I attempted MacOS for fun and it went down hill from there. Following this guide https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM I installed it no problem without passthrough then realised my 3060ti wouldn't work so I installed an old RX580 laying around and decided to passthrough that, when I did it hung, tried blacklisting the AMD drivers on host, amongst other things and I couldn't get it to work. I then switched to this guide using clover https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM as I heard that might work and nope it hung again.