John_M

The path names are hard coded. If you are not using the default locations for domains (/mnt/user/domains) and appdata (/mnt/user/appdata) or if you call the container anything other than the default (case-sensitive) 'macinabox' the script will fail. So either make sure everything is as the default or edit the script accordingly.

Why? How would that speed things up?

No. If the driver and hardware are working well together the dri directory (and its contents) automatically appears in /dev. I don't think amdgpu is the best driver module for the HD 4850. A better match is the older radeon module but it doesn't have the same advanced features as amdgpu.

What is using a USB connection?

No, it isn't.

You don't need to run it after macOS updates. You run the helper script once, unaltered, before you first launch the VM to install macOS. Then you edit it and run that version each time you edit the template. Its main purpose is to make sure some custom parts of the XML are not lost. Its secondary purpose is to make sure the correct network card definition is specified, depending on whether you're installing or running the VM.

Does the file mentioned in the error message exist?

With an actual graphics card macOS would be able to determine the capabilities of the monitor you have attached and offer at least its native resolution as an option. There's an option to change the default resolution within the OVMF BIOS. There might be a configuration option within OpenCore, but I'm afraid I don't know enough about OpenCore to advise. Since you're using another Mac to view your VM, I'd give Apple Screen Sharing (built into macOS) a try, as an alternative to VNC.

MacOS is not designed to run without a graphics card - all current Apple Macintosh computers have a GPU of some sort. By not using one you are doing all graphics operations in software. What exactly are you trying to achieve?

The error message suggests that the server was overloaded and couldn't respond to your request, possibly due to the macOS 11.2.1 update that was released recently. Try again later.

This is excellent stuff! It's nice to see some support for AMD APUs at last. I can confirm that it works with a 2400G too (not surprisingly), though the Athlon 200GE (the cheapest APU I could find) is more than powerful enough for HEVC transcoding. In the Unraid 6.9.0-Beta35 release notes Limetech provides a way of enabling the amdgpu driver that doesn't use the go file:

You can configure OpenCore to boot from a default volume. I don't recall quite how off the top of my head but it's here in this thread and possibly also in the comments to the YouTube video.

Agreed. I can live with that restriction, though. I haven't used nomachine so I don't know its capabilities but it's available in both free and paid versions so might be worth a look.

They certainly have, and also in SpaceinvaderOne's videos, where he recommends Splashtop. FWIW, I use Apple Screen Sharing, which is included with macOS itself (roughly analogous to Windows RDP, though Apple makes no distinction between "Home" and "Professional" users) and requires no third party software, though it does need another Mac.

You expect other people to make a greater effort so that you can avoid doing a little work? That gives a bad impression of entitlement. You perhaps don't realise that pretty much everyone who posts here is a normal user, just like yourself, giving their time for free. The answers to questions are often found quite easily if you do a little looking. If you try to find an answer but have no success, then by all means ask but indicate that you've at least made some effort to help yourself. To be fair, you don't have to. Many of the early pages are irrelevant now that the container has beeen rewritten. You just have to rewind a few pages - four or five at the most. The OP doesn't often comment here. He provides the tools and makes comprehensive videos - to expect more is not reasonable.

The same questions are being asked over and over. I would encourage people to do a little reading before posting. If the answer's there it's much quicker than waiting for a reply.

This is a know issue and has been mentioned many times before. If only people would read the previous two or three pages before panicking, you'd actually save yourself a lot of time.

@linuxserver.io Would you consider adding mauimauer's patch to allow hardware transcoding with AMD GPUs, please? It seems pretty straightforward and it would mean your container would provide support for all three major GPU manufacturers. Details here: https://forums.plex.tv/t/got-hw-transcoding-to-work-with-libva-vaapi-on-raden-apu-ryzen-7-4700u/676546

You're pointing at it! That utility is the EFI partition mounter and the volumes you're interested in are the bootloader, at the bottom, and the disk that you are in the process of making your system disk, above it. At the point you've reached the Base System has done its job and you don't need it any more. See the video at timecode 11:18.

Have you changed any of the paths or the name of the container? The paths in the helper script are hard-coded and will fail if you don't use the defaults. Even changing the name from "macinabox" to "Macinabox" breaks the script.

Yes. Once passed through to a VM the NIC isn't available to Unraid.

It looks incomplete and I see no mention of a passed through GPU, just VNC.

Good. In that case, it's a three step process. Make sure the card isn't being used by Unraid. Typically people would want to use a 10Gb card to serve files to other hosts but you need to exclude it and use another interface as eth0 instead. (Settings -> Network settings. Make sure it isn't eth0 and exclude it from all bonds and bridges.) Make sure it isn't being bound to a built-in Linux driver by binding it to the virtio stub driver instead. (Tools -> System Devices. Make sure it is in an IOMMU group all by itself and tick the box to the left, then click the "Bind selected to VFIO at boot" button.) Edit your VM template to pass though the PCIe device.