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I know how to increase disk size of a Windows VM. Somehow, I cannot get it done with a Mac OS VM. Any thoughts?

I’m using realvnc, not vnc. so, presumably it should work. Also, “screen sharing” is a native apple protocol, which should be different from vnc from what i understand.

Yes, i have a rx580, which i pass through. Video works as long as i don’t include the vbios. Audio doesn’t work. I don’t have a screen attached. I use realvnc to access my mac vm. it’s a lot better with the gpu passthrough as it uses hw acceleration. without the gpu passtroifh, it’s barely usable. also, i can use “screen sharing” (mac native) to access the mac vm from a macbook. Also, no sound though.

It’s audio from the rx580 that i’m trying to pass through. i’m trying to play via remote desktop. but no luck. I have a dummy hdmi plug to pretend that it’s working. The unraid crash is replicable. Once i add the vbios (in xml), it crashes. i forgot how i got the vbios, but it used to work with the previous macinabox with clover / catalina.

Thanks. If that's the case, then I don't see an issue. In fact, the video even works. My issue is as follows: 1) Video works, but audio does not work. it does not throw any errors. But when starting the VM, I don't hear any audio and no audio devices show up under "output" 2) Even worse, when adding my vbios in docker settings, it collapses. Unraid UI is no longer and disappears. The array is not longer accessible over the network. I need to power off and restart my server. Upon restart, all works well, but the VM tab disappeared. I then need to add the paths again and turn on VM in the VM manager. Then, all works again. It's quite a "scary" experience to see Unraid crashing like this.

Thanks for your help. How can I check whether the bus is free? My PCIe ACS override is set to downstream right now. As mentioned above, both are "alone" in group 29: Group 29 [removed] VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] (rev e7) [removed] Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] Anything else to try? Shall I still switch to "both" although no isolation seems required?

I compared and spotted two differences: 1) Your bus is the same for both video and audio? In my case, the video is listed as bus x03, while audio is listed under 0x04. I don't know how to check whether this bus is used. 2) I don't have multifunction enabled. Shall I add this? Once done, can I still use the user script?

Asus Prime X299-A, Unraid 6.8.3 (stable). Both video and audio are in the same group: Group 29 [removed] VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] (rev e7) [removed] Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] Any more thoughts for me?

Thanks for your help. In this case, I'd prefer to explore other ways first to get it working. In fact, everything used to work well for me with the previous version of macinabox and catalina. My GPU was passed through with the dumped vbios. Video worked very well. From my memory, audio also worked (though I am not 100% certain). It is a bit odd now. I installed the new macinabox and set up a new BigSur VM. It works well with VNC. It also works with passthrough GPU (RX580). However, no audio though. Also, it does only work when NOT passing through the vios. When passing through the vbios, Unraid crashes. I need to manually turn off my server and after reboot the VM tab even disappeared (which I can then enable and set up again). Net net, passthrough works, but vbios does not. I am quite sure that the vbios file is not the issue as it used to work with Catalaina / old macinabox with the same bvbios file and gpu. Also, I haeve no idea what multifunction device is, but don't remember ever fiddling with this with the previous macinabox. Any idea what I can try out?

Thanks @alturismo and @derpuma. I have passed through my AMD RX580 GPU. Video is working, but I don't have any Audio. I looked into voodooHDA, but only found a kext. Is this what you are suggesting and how to add in opencore?

Same here, big thanks!!!

I went with all default paths, which gets it somewhat working. I still cannot access cloud (see other thread), but more importantly I cannot get the GPU passthrough to work. It used to work with the previous macinabox version in Catalina, but I cannot get it to work with the new macinabox with BigSur. Below error when not adding a gpu rom. VM starts, but is horribly slow (i.e. not using the GPU). -smbios type=2 \ -cpu Penryn,kvm=on,vendor=GenuineIntel,+invtsc,vmware-cpuid-freq=on,+pcid,+ssse3,+sse4.2,+popcnt,+avx,+aes,+xsave,+xsaveopt,check \ -sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny \ -msg timestamp=on 2020-12-31 06:26:07.247+0000: Domain id=7 is tainted: high-privileges 2020-12-31 06:26:07.247+0000: Domain id=7 is tainted: custom-argv 2020-12-31 06:26:07.247+0000: Domain id=7 is tainted: host-cpu char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 (label charserial0) When adding a gpu rom, Unraid crashes after starting the VM. After restarting, there is no more VM tab. Need to then need to enable the VM again. Any thoughts?

Facing the same issue. Serial is fine. Tried to delete the two files suggested above, but still no luck with message and cloud. I tried the link to the hackintosh forum, but couldn't find anything about the patch. Could you help with a step by step guide?

@SpaceInvaderOne, I created a pull request to fix the permission issue for download method 2. Haven't been able to test yet though. https://github.com/SpaceinvaderOne/Macinabox/pull/34

Thanks for posting this. I am struggling with this, so this work-aroud will be helpful for me. Two questions: 1) When and how exactly do you do the change? You wait until the error occurs and then stop the container? Then edit the file and restart the container? 2) I am still struggling how to set the path for /appdate and /system. It seems to default to creating a folder on my first array disk, while I'd prefer to have it on on of the UD disks (e.g., in the docker container folder). For "/system", it says not to change it. Also, the default for the sub-folder within appdata actually ppoint to a very different folder. Would you mind posting your working setup for the paths?

Fully agree. In the absence of this, RealVNC does a good job for me. It works quite smoothly and is a good tool.

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Any update for us?

Any thoughts?

Thanks. I think this makes a lot of sense. Can you confirm that your default setting for "appdata, Macinabox only data, Basesystem" also points to very different paths?

It seems to be working for all of you, so there must be a user issue on my end stopping me. Maybe because of my docker settings? Any thoughts on how others have configured it? Thanks for your help!

And yet another issue: 2020-12-20 18:18:35,036 Selected macOS Product: 001-86606 /Macinabox/unraid.sh: line 273: /Macinabox/tools/FetchMacOS/BaseSystem/SharedSupport.dmg: Permission denied

I've been spending a few hours on it, but somehow cannot get it to work. I believe one issue is that I should have switched to method 2. I am also confused though about the folder mappings in the docker and cannot figure it out from the video: 1) VM Images Location, VM Images Location again, Isos Share Location, Isos Share Location again All four locations set to "/mnt/disks/NVME/VM/". This should be fine 2) custom ovmf location It says that I should not change it, so I have not changed it. It is per default set to "/mnt/user/system/custom_ovmf/", which is not preferred by me as it places the files on "/mnt/disk1", which is not ideal. Any idea whether I can change this would be great. For now, left unchanged. 3) appdata, Macinabox only data, Basesystem It says the three should be the same. However, the default shows the first in the docker folder, while the other two in a user folder. Assume there is some mistake here? How to best set this up? Thanks for your help!

Where did you see the comment? I'd prefer to move to the appdata folder within the VM folder just to keep things a bit tidier. I manually installed the scripts.

Yes, They both seem to be there. Shall I manually install them? And any chance to change the appdate default location? Prefer to have them within the same folder as the VM image.