kholia/OSX-KVM
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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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See also: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
comment by jchw · 2020-05-24 · in Push-Button Installer of macOS Guests in VirtualBox for Windows, Linux, macOS -
See also https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
comment by js2 · 2020-05-24 · in Push-Button Installer of macOS Guests in VirtualBox for Windows, Linux, macOS -
…thinking of a hackintosh just to compile, then it would probably be easier to just virtualize it. https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
comment by happymellon · 2020-05-02 · in Valve drops VR support for macOS -
I run OSX under KVM with clover. I’ve used this guide: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
comment by josteink · 2020-04-19 · in OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover -
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 -
…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) -
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 -
https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
comment by voltagex_ · 2019-06-12 · in Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation -
…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 -
…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 -
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 -
…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 -
…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? -
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Osx-kvm: Run macOS on QEMU/KVMstory by axiomdata316 · 2018-08-15 · 106 comments
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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 -
..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” -
…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 -
…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 -
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 -
…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 -
…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 -
…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 -
…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 -
…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 -
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OS X-KVM: Running Mac OS X El Capitan on KVM and QEMUstory by tambourine_man · 2016-09-22 · 89 comments