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macOS-KVM
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I really love using OpenCore Auxiliary Tools, so I wrote a little introductory guide
Does this guide solely focus on a bare metal install, or can I apply it to Hackintosh in virtual machines too? Used bare-metal for a few years but I’ve been trying to get a personalized kvm/OC config for my Monterey & Big Sur guests in proxmox 7. Both macOS versions boot and are decent but I do wish a host-setup like; https://github.com/johncolby/macOS-KVM. Instead of the more general approach; https://github.com/thenickdude/KVM-Opencore, https://github.com/Leoyzen/KVM-Opencore . Not to discredit either of them, I wouldn’t have a booting macOS without their guidance, but I’d like to tinker with it a bit further
- Anyone got any good guides for making a VM work on AMD hardware?
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Consider VFIO for Hackintosh
You can look at this resource - https://github.com/johncolby/macOS-KVM. He links a couple of other guides- you should start with them first.
- Help
- single amd gpu passthrough tutorial
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Flawless Big Sur 11.1 upgrade of OC KVM/QEMU Ryzen build
Here's the repo if you want to see more details: https://github.com/johncolby/macOS-KVM
https://github.com/johncolby/macOS-KVM/blob/feda3a501292df66c8d3930c312f0baaa3b3fa5f/EFI/OC/config.plist#L391
I'm in the same situation as you...not doing much on the host, and only running one VM at a time. I just pin all of my CPU cores: https://github.com/johncolby/macOS-KVM/blob/feda3a501292df66c8d3930c312f0baaa3b3fa5f/libvirt/libvirt.xml#L25-L38.
quickemu
- Proxmox VE: Import Wizard for Migrating VMware ESXi VMs
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How to run macOS on Linux (without too much hassle) [video]
Tl;Dr use quickemu: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
There's also quickgui to help with launching VMs: https://github.com/quickgui/quickgui
(I've been using it for annual chores on windows)
- Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
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Simulate an Ubuntu-like VM inside macOS
Multipass is pretty clutch for trivial VMs on MacOs for sure. I use it for a bunch of ssh jump boxes running vpns to different sites. The macOS build does not support custom images (lest not without [some truly insane hacks](https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/1260#issuecomm...) , which doesn’t really matter for what I use it for but it is kind of a bummer. If you need something with a little more grunt but don’t want to go full blown with writing your own QEMU tooling or fussing with something like UTM or Parallels, [quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu) is a really nice qemu wrapper with sane defaults that can expose a whole lot of power if you need it.
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Thinking of purchasing a 4080 laptop and replacing W11 with KDE plasma
Overall, don't be afraid to switch distro (use Ventoy, load a few ISOs just in case), try to make sure you have an easy way of backing up your stuff (be it with a separate /home partition, or like I do with storing everything important in a separate drive and then using symlink to make it 'appear' in their 'default' places), and you can always use VM in a pinch (consult this guide or use quickemu or gnome-boxes)
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Wanting to ditch windows 10 in favor of linux
In case some things you do absolutely needs Windows, keep this guide for setting up VM in mind, or use quickemu's GUI.
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Is it possible to run a Windows 11 Virtual Machine on Linux?
+1 for QuickEmu. I was able to try out Windows 11 in a VM on a PC that is not supported by Windows 11.
If you want to do this super easily, check out the QuickEmu project with the QuickGUI: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
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Virter: a "Docker for VMs"
Looks great! Does anyone know how Virter compare with quickemu?
What are some alternatives?
OSX-KVM - Run macOS on QEMU/KVM. With OpenCore + Monterey + Ventura + Sonoma support now! Only commercial (paid) support is available now to avoid spammy issues. No Mac system is required.
macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.
homebrew-qemu-virgl - A homebrew tap for qemu with support for 3d accelerated guests
ryzen-hackintosh - OpenCore EFI for AMD Ryzen Hackintosh
barrier - Open-source KVM software
Single-GPU-Passthrough
ryzentosh - OpenCore Configuration for Ryzen 3950x with ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (Wi-Fi) X570
distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
Docker-OSX - Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.
virt-manager - Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt
kvm-guest-drivers-windows - Windows paravirtualized drivers for QEMU\KVM