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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.

75 mentions on Hacker News by 67 people: 6 stories, 69 comments · first 2016-09-22 · latest 2026-04-21

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  1. macOS on amd64 works well enough on upstream qemu with a few hacks: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
    comment by q3k · 2020-04-15 · in Xnu-QEMU-Arm64: iOS on QEMU
  2. …ever need to open them up. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM... [2] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM [3] https://github.com/yoonsikp/macos-kvm-pci-passthrough
    comment by mwill · 2020-02-10 · in Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015)
  3. Other links that may be helpful: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM https://collaboradev.com/2018/10/19/arch-linux-running-osx-h...
    comment by johnisgood · 2019-10-06 · in macOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address
  4. https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
    comment by voltagex_ · 2019-06-12 · in Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation
  5. …few things that have been helpful to me: - Good starting point for setting up macOS under QEMU/KVM: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM - DSDT/SSDT patching: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/ssdt-gpu-graphics-card-in... - AMD reset bug:…
    comment by dperfect · 2019-04-24 · in QEMU v4.0.0 released
  6. …PCI passthrough) and the performance is really tearful awful, still, it runs Simulator just fine. https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
    comment by stevefan1999 · 2018-12-04 · in Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI
  7. You can now run macOS in Linux KVM ( https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM ), although I guess you'd need a beefy machine to have Indesign run fluently in a VM. Also I don't know if and how the license manager works in a virtualized…
    comment by ofrzeta · 2018-11-22 · in Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air
  8. …interested in trying to run hackintoshes: - https://github.com/geerlingguy/macos-virtualbox-vm - https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM Personally I ended up just buying a Mac Mini and upgrading it's RAM. It's unfortunate, but I was under a…
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2018-10-19 · in Hackintosh-KVM Guide: High Sierra+ Using QEMU's I440fx Chipset
  9. …nice machine. I almost don't miss OSX and this [0] project has solved a lot of those issues. [0] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
    comment by stuntkite · 2018-10-08 · in What laptop are you using for your day to day work and why?
  10. Try https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM with qemu, it works on Debian 9 with a backport of buster qemu https://packages.debian.org/buster/qemu
    comment by Val_ · 2018-05-15 · in Open source tutorial for Hackintosh installation
  11. ..and only a single copy, it appears. These links are fun: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/master/README.md http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/#sec_4
    comment by ctime · 2018-02-06 · in Apple's Failure to Check Kill Syscall Privilege “Not a Security Issue”
  12. …which handles all the steps necessary to create an installation image that works with qemu/kvm. [1] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/
    comment by beefhash · 2017-11-07 · in Show HN: OSX-ISO – Create a bootable ISO of macOS from the installation app file
  13. …window, but the mouse and keyboard capturing was really finicky, so it was completely unusable. [0] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
    comment by lucaspiller · 2017-04-26 · in My Hackintosh Hardware Spec
  14. Virtualization (e.g. https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM ) can help a lot by reducing your dependence on specific parts. If you stick with an Intel CPU and a motherboard with an IOMMU and a well supported graphics card you're pretty likely…
    comment by johncolanduoni · 2017-04-15 · in What the Hackintosh community wants in the new modular Mac Pro
  15. …and El Capitan. So no, it is no longer the case. It is still prohibited by the EULA though. [1] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/master/create_install...
    comment by anfogoat · 2016-10-31 · in Benjamin Button Reviews the New MacBook Pro
  16. …recently , as in I haven't tried it with macOS Sierra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qadiAp1aiJM https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
    comment by xaduha · 2016-10-30 · in Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide October 2016
  17. …understand to be the legal protection they have against people running OS X on non-Apple hardware: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/476ae8b082088049f2f8c... I would not be surprised if a DMCA takedown will be filed against this…
    comment by CyberShadow · 2016-09-22 · in OS X-KVM: Running Mac OS X El Capitan on KVM and QEMU
  18. …method, the NIC's MAC seems to be hardcoded in the script [1]. You might want to change that. [1] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/476ae8b082088049f2f8c...
    comment by davb · 2016-09-22 · in OS X-KVM: Running Mac OS X El Capitan on KVM and QEMU
  19. …though. If you search github for this line, you will find other configs that support doing this- https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/master/macOS-libvirt.... Edit: It's relatively easy- blacklist (or uninstall) GPU drivers from host…
    comment by grw_ · 2016-09-22 · in OS X-KVM: Running Mac OS X El Capitan on KVM and QEMU