quickemu VS OneClick-macOS-Simple-KVM

https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

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)

[2] https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/blob/0c8e1a5205...

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.

Also: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/issues/88

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)

In case some things you do absolutely needs Windows, keep this guide for setting up VM in mind, or use quickemu's GUI.

VM will be shutdown automatically when it's inactive for a while. I will eventually add more distros going forward. Most distro isos are downloaded using the quickget script from the wonderful quickemu project. You may directly contribute to the upstream project to get the distro added to DistroSea.

If you want to do this super easily, check out the QuickEmu project with the QuickGUI: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

Looks great! Does anyone know how Virter compare with quickemu?

This works pretty well for running macOS on Linux:

https://github.com/notAperson535/OneClick-macOS-Simple-KVM/

Mostly used it when trying to track down reported macOS bugs in stuff for an OSS project, so maybe once every few months. But it's worked quite well at those times. :)

I have a MacOS Ventura VM up and running under Linux KVM/QEMU using Virtual Machine Manager. When I installed, I added a bridge network like I always do for VMs and I may have removed the previous NIC installed by this method: https://github.com/notAperson535/OneClick-macOS-Simple-KVM. I am now researching what it takes to get Apple Services working. One thing I'm unclear about is does the network type matter for this?

Hi all. Been getting a weird error the last week or so. I've noticed I'd lose connection and when I check my macos vm, it says "failed to prepare port" even though it had been running the whole time. I'm running airmessage inside of a VM inside of xubuntu. Specifically this OSX KVM solution . I haven't had any issues with running it this way until last week or so. The only way to fix seemed to be quit and restart airmessage. I do not want to use a Google account, so please do not suggest that as the solution. Thank you.

https://github.com/notAperson535/OneClick-macOS-Simple-KVM And disabled read-only

i was following a guide to get a macos kvm on wsl but when I'm trying to install it I get an error saying that my cpu does not support kvm extensions. I have used the same machine on linux to easily run the same kvm without any problems so I don't know why this is happening. I'm also using the latest wsl2 kernel package. Guide

This is the SIMPLEST one: https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM sadly is not getting updates, but you can use it and upgrade after installation or use a fork: https://github.com/notAperson535/OneClick-macOS-Simple-KVM

I had Montery running on Xubuntu 20.04 a month ago, but something happened recently to bork it. I could not boot into it this morning. I think it had something to do with improperly shutting down the machine as I was messing with the breakers in my house. I thought a fresh install might fix it but that doesn't seem to be the case. I made a new folder for all the files and downloaded the KVM set up that I used before, but I get the error above. I'm guessing it's an issue with libvirtd but my home assistant VM seems to have no issues. If anyone has any idea how to fix this (without doing a nuke) that would be appreciated.

I followed this guide that I found here, it's the same as the macOS simple KVM but simpler to set up. I got the VM to boot and logged into my Apple ID with no problems. But the VM doesn't show up as a separate device on my router so I can forward the port that I need to to the VM. I tried using the bridged network instructions that guide has but it didn't work. Should I just use something like nginx proxy manager for it?