Hey Chris! This is exactly what I needed! Actually the first video of yours that got me hooked was making a hackintosh with Opencore because it was super informative. I can't wait to try this!

Wow, can't wait to try this. My poor Mac might not get used that much anymore if everything works. Thanks Chris!

Thank you for this topic...I've been waiting for something this a long time now.

I really appreciate your channel Chris. I find other channels are either very Windows or Mac focused, or if they're Linux focused they're total evangelists. I love Linux and use it as my primary OS, but there are many people like me who use Windows and Mac for different purposes as well. Some work-related reasons and also because the experience might be better on Mac or Windows for some other task. I just like how you're not religious about operating systems like so many others are.

Minux. Macinux. Lac. Linac.

To change the XML in Virt-manager, you have to go to Settings and enable it, I'm 99% sure. By default you can't edit it in Virt-manager. I think it's a safety thing, since normal way is doing it with 'virsh' and that checks for errors in the XML. 'sudo virsh edit ' IIRC, in terminal. But of course you get the whole XML so have to find the right section. Which is why I edit in Virt-Manager, in most cases. I am just a normal home-user. If VM breaks, I can redo it. It's not like a whole enterprise goes down.

As usual. You are the best. Simple and effective.

You always have fun tutorials. I'm tempted to try this out.

Awesome video!!! Once I get my "new" laptop fully configured, I might give this a try! Thanks for posting this!!!

First Mac vm that’s actually worked for me , thanks a bunch 🙃

The video that LTT promised but never made. Thank you kind sir.

Wow, you came out with a video that directly helps me with something I'm working on right now. This has happened several times and blows my mind every time XD Thank you for the help Chris

This is the first time I have caught one of your videos, this is great. Subscribed.

THANK YOU MY BROTHER FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY AND ANOTHER FAMILY!!!

wow, exactly what i needed. great video, very educative

All works good! There is no mouse functionality in Clover bootloader, you have to use keyboard. The first time I tried this there was no mouse in Catalina either, so I had to delete the entire "macOS-Simple-KVM" folder in my home directory and try all over again. Worked the 2nd time. Everything worked as described in the video. Was not able to get GPU passthrough working yet, but I feel pretty good I got a complete working Mac system in just a couple hours. Good guide!

One comment on GPU/PCIe-Passthrough. Radeon 5700/5600/5500 is supported Catalina and above Radeon 6800/6900 are supported By Big Sur and above. Radeon 6600 is supported since Monterey. Be aware Radeon 6700/6750/6950 is not supported! Modern Nvidia GPUs aren't supported past High Sierra GTX 1000er Series - you can use old Kepler GPUs though.

Hey chris, can you make a nixOS setup vid with home manager and flakes? I've watched your video about Nix packet manager, it was really good. Keep up the great work!

Do you have a tutorial about single gpu passthrough on arch? Would be great to see how you would set this up.

APFS is mandatory on anything that is Mojave or newer, you can "install" to HFS+ disks, but the filesystem will get upgraded to APFS. Also if you cannot see your disk in Disk Utility, just click View --> Show all devices Note: ever since Catalina, apple has actually been slowly adding support for virtio drivers, catalina added support for virtio block disk drivers, big sur added virtio networking drivers, monterey added virtio gpu drivers (no 3d acceleration, passthrough still better, but virtio tends to be somewhat better than qxl in some cases) Also another note: RX5700 XT+ is supported in big sur (maybe catalina too), RX6600 XT (not RX6700 or RX6700XT) and RX6800XT+ is supported in monterey

Hi Chris, are you planning to make the same tutorial for Windows version? Like vmware workstation, or VirtualBox or maybe even hyper-v?

As a long time hackintosher I've been using Opencore for a few years now so wonder why Clover is still being used for Mac on Linux. I'm writing this on a 2011 Macbook Pro on Big Sur thanks to Opencore Legacy Patcher, so all round very grateful and appreciative of what the Opencore team have achieved. For years before Opencore I - like everyone else - was using Clover, and while it was OK, my experience was it was pretty shakey with Clover updates or tiny tweaks being fully capable of borking what had previously been a solid installation. IOW if I was planning on using MacOS for any sort of production where reliable performance was important to me, I'd choose Opencore and I'd hackintosh on bare metal. I look forward to an update when you get your 5700 :)

greate video chris! i wish u did a more in depth video about gpu passthrough for cards that doesn't have uefi bios aka legacy bios like GTX 680.. do you know if there is a workaround to get that card working for gpu passthrough and with monterey and ventura ?

Thanks this works really well.

I recently learned about a project similar to WINE, but for running MacOS programs on Linux, it's called "darling", and it's GitHub repo was started on march 9th 2011, it's come a really long way since then from the looks of it, but I have yet to try it. I'd guess another 10 or 15 years until it's close to where WINE is as of writing this.

Thank you. I must try this.

great guide tyvm

I kind of skimmed through this video, but I'm almost tempted to try it. It would be Inception-like to run MacOS in a VM, in Linux, running on Mac hardware.

For snapping you can use tiles. :)

Magnet - that was a good suggestion. Just purchased it and got it installed - brilliant. Any more suggestions.

Pretty sure both LTT and Muta made a video on exactly this. Still pretty awesome. Can’t help but notice you only used Catalina. Any support for Monterey or even Ventura?

Great video👍👍👍

Hello Chris, what os do you have on your system? Thank you

Just what I was looking for! Awesome tutorial, I just have one question, could my gpu pass through be my Intel integrated graphics? I have an nvidia 20 series card that I’ve seen is not supported😢

Hi Installed as per guide but EVERY time I click in the VM to install MacOs the cursor freezes IN the vm. I can tab around but no mouse to click "continue" etc. CNTRL & L to exit work, tried so many things. Any ideas Chris?

I caved and bought an iPhone 14 Pro, nice phone but just doesn't play well with Linux. So I think I will install a vm just to interact with the phone when needed. Good info, thanks.

took me a while due to mistake, but it works thanks

Hello Sir, Do you use any email client ? Which one should I use , windows mail and calendar or Thunderbird ?😕

Thanks for one more very good video. BTW none of those long list of disks in Linux are mounted :D

Chris would you please make a guide to do this on Windows Hyper V

i just tried it with sosumi. ill give this a shot also.

Thanks!

Great video! Few questions: 1- Can you boot directly into MacOS using KVM? I mean, booting native Linux but automating it to just open MacOS every time you boot? 2- How's the performance when virtualizating like this? I know it's not 100%, but is it too impactful?

If you are looking for a sound card the $9 USB-C to headphone jack adapter in the Apple Store produces a perfect analogue signal and is guaranteed compatible with MacOS. It is also a very good choice for a Windows machine. Samsung's equivalent is about the same price and equally good in Windows, but doesn't work so well in Apple devices. The $5 Amazon alternatives are probably OK, but for the sake of $4, I'd probably go with the Apple one that is known to work.

Hey Chris! Just now found this video! so is this VM reliable as a daily driver. im an app developer heavily rely on xcode.

I am thinking some videos showing the responsiveness and things you can do such as the video editing with hardware acceleration. And then maybe have some videos showing the same with a Proxmox Mac VM with passthrough on the same/similar hardware for comparison. Edited: I was looking at trying this on Proxmox using an HP Z820 with dual E5-2667 v2, 128GB RAM, and a (maybe dual) MSI Armor OC RX 580 8GB. All old hardware that I have had access to for free / cheap.

is it safe to use my icloud in such config ? great vid as always chris!

Hey there Chris! If I may ask you, how is Kholia’s OSX-KVM inferior than foxlet’s simple KVM? OSX-KVM is being actively developed, whereas simple KVM got its last commit couple of years ago. So OSX-KVM is more preferable.

I have a Razer Blade 15 with 2 drives. I installed Linux on 2nd drive and followed this guide to get OSX high sierra on it. Is it possible to GPU passthrough a 1080Ti if I use an e-GPU enclosure?

Hi Chris, if you are using Fedora, a non-Ubuntu distro, do you know what commands do you type in instead?

Thanks! I wonder about the solution if you don't have a hard-drive sitting next to you waiting for the tutorial.

great video

Chris is 100% a secret Apple agent 😂

Any experiences with developing iOS applications with this vm? I imagine the version of xcode might be a problem or limiting factor

Can you upgrade MacOS or would it just flip out and not work? What's the deal with the upgrade to the newer MacOS version?

do you got a walk through on how to install mac on a different hard drive i want linux and mac on my windows laptop at the moment i got windows 11 and linux on this old haswell alienware laptop

btw if you're on windows you can use the macos-virtualbox project but ofc you wont be able to passthrough your gpu

Great vid Chris. But after initial install I'm stuck with Catalina-DATA disk and cannot finish. Please, help! What am I doing wrong?

I recommend rectangle for snapping Windows it's free and very good app

Thank you.

My laptop watching this: I'm tired, boss. Sidenote: I'd like to see opencore used in this kind of setup, will do some research for KVM.

Hey Chris 👋 I would like to setup macOS on Linux for react-native development. is there any liabilities by doing so ?

PART 2 with GPU Passthrough please!

sosumi is the click and go method, so I prefer it

Good video.

Hey Chris, first of all a big thank you for such a nice and informative video at the same time 😀 Was exactly what I was looking for. But now I come to my question that I asked myself during your MacOS under Linux videos: Can I also log in with his own Apple ID without being banned by Apple? (thereby risking his Apple account). I would very much like to use some programs under MacOS (for work as well as for study), but a Macbook is a bit too expensive for me, I already own an iPad and a pc for both, but the iPad is more of a note-taking tool instead of a full desktop PC feel. What would you do in my place? Would look forward to a reply from you if you read the comment 😀 Greetings Tobi from Germany ✌️

Is it possible to upgrade Catalina to Ventura through this method?

Are you back on Debian? No longer on Fedora?

@Chris Titus Tech Where is your guide for setting up a bridge network?

i have a ryzen 5950x, is it possible to use most of my cores on this? i can't seem to go above 8 cores.

Do you know if this works on a Ryzen based laptop with no dGPU? just amd Vega graphics APU

Thanks a lot for this tutor. Is it possible to install to virtutal box ?

Now, since any real productivity requires two monitors - how do we get dual monitors on macOS using qemu?

excellent video. wish i had seen this prior to all those vbox videos that did not work for me. in the end i like qemu more than vbox anyways :-D

What's the system requirements for this qemu

hey i did your video where you had to fix the boot by using that command prompt and now my computer is stuck on the motherboard screen any help?

I'm running windows on my manjaro setup only because the company i work at forces me to login all the time if I don't use a supported mail and office client. Real pain. This costs me 40GB for windows. Would you recommend osx over windows for this use? I've confirmed it should also work on osx.

can you perform the same process with 1 hard drive?

Hey Chris! May you please explain the multiple log errors you got on 12:39 and how you fixed them. I have been stuck on this for the past hour. Thanks!

How does this compare with sosumi?

I use windows as my primary OS because of many software I use are only available and fully functional on windows only, is there a GPU-PV tutorial for partitioning my GPU and using it with Linux VM?, Tried jamesparsec's GPU-PV tutorial but it only works for second windows VM, I also us WSL2 but would love to use full Linux with gui n all..

Can we upgrade it to MacOS Monterey? Would it work or break the Mac VM?

can you help to run macos on proxmox? i have a lot of troubles with that

Can you do any of this on a chromebook with 4 Gigs?

Thanks again Chris..I think Win-Ux are better..😉👍

Is it mandatory you need to have a second monitor with GPU passthrough? Or is it possible to run everything on one card (plugin in a dummyhdmi connector on the 5700)? Edit: Also trying to avoid to switch from 1 HDMI Input to another on the Monitor)

which os you are using?

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it's easy to do in Proxmox with OpenCore, and you can even get proper graphics acceleration passing through compatible graphics card :)

Hey Titus, do you happen to know any front-end for qemu on windows? I tried some, doesn't seem to work!

The most difficult part is GPU-passthrough, depends on your hardware.

I use Mint hope that works

Just out of curiosity if you dislike the Mac GUI so much, what do you use MacOS for? Final Cut Pro?

Possibly a really dumb question, but would it break if you updated to a newer version of macOS?

Can you install MacOS in QEMU using original MacOS image downloaded from Apple?

Can do it on mac os x snow leopard 10.6.8 or not

Can I use iMessage or FaceTime?

I got Catalina in Mint Vbox. It took 3 hours.

hy guys i get a wierd issue , when i setup virto graphic there is a delay in mouse response but when set to qxl then there is no mouse delay, if anyone know how to solve this do help me , speicifically happen in mac and window.

Hello, Apple ID: It work? USB (Iphone): It work? GPU: It work? Update: Catalina -> Ventura?