https://www.nicksherlock.com/2021/10/installing-macos-12-monterey-on-proxmox-7/
https://github.com/thenickdude/OSX-KVM
UEFI and CSM USB
- UEFI better for hardware pt
Download Ubuntu container
Install pre-req qemu-utils make git
Clone the osxkvm repo from github
Make the Monterey recovery image
cd /scripts/monterey
make Monterey-recovery.img
Pull the image from CT to host
pct pull 100 /file/in/the/CT /var/lib/vz/template/iso/xxx.img make it available as ISO
Use wget to pull OpenCore from the git repo
gzip OpenCore
For system
Graphic Card: VMWare Compatible
Machine: q35
BIOS: OVMF
EFI Storage: local-lvm
Make sure pre-enroll keys and qemu agent is checked
Hard Disks
VirtIO Block
Cache=unsafe
CPU
CPU Core has to be multiple of 2 (if using 6 cores, try 3 sockets of 2 CPU)
Type: Penryn
Enable NUMA
echo "options kvm ignore_msrs=Y" >> /etc/modprobe.d/kvm.conf && update-initramfs -k all -u
avoid bootloop during macOS
Add these lines in /etc/pve/qemu-server/ID.conf
args: -device isa-applesmc,osk="ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc" -smbios type=2 -device usb-kbd,bus=ehci.0,port=2 -global nec-usb-xhci.msi=off -global ICH9-LPC.acpi-pci-hotplug-with-bridge-support=off
-cpu host,kvm=on,vendor=GenuineIntel,+kvm_pv_unhalt,+kvm_pv_eoi,+hypervisor,+invtsc
Change both the CD rom into cache=unsafe
Erase the VirtIO Block media and create a APFS partition
Reinstall MacOS into the blk media
Under MacOS, open terminal
diskutil list
One of the disk contains EFI from OpenCore and 1 disk contains EFI of vdisk
sudo dd if=/dev/disk-of-open-core-efi of=/dev/disk-of-macos-efi
USB Passthrough
By device
- not hot-pluggable
By port - hot-plug
- in order to pt a port, need to plug in something first to select it
- other devices can be plugged into same port
- need to passthrough both usb 3 and usb 2 (plug in usb 3 device and select, then plug in usb 2 device and select again but uncheck usb3)
In MacOS
Setting → Sharing → Enable Screen Share
Use VNC Viewer to connect
Download python3.10 and ProperTree
Open buildapp-select.command
sudo diskutil mount disk-the-efi-partition
/EFI/OC/config.plist
Use Ctrl/Cmd-F
showpicker: False
- upon booting no need to select disk
For Navi GPU (RX 5xxx, 6xxx) - add boot-args
agdpmod=pikera
Fixing network problem after plugging in a GPU
- the network interface enp[x]s0 may change
- edit the interface in
/etc/network/interfaces