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    **VIDEO GUIDE** How to Install MacOS Mojave or High Sierra as a VM

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    11 hours ago, gridrunner said:

    Hi. Yes, you can run an OSX VM on an AMD CPU but not all. Ryzen seems fine. (my test server is an AMD Ryzen 1500x and osx high sierra is running as a VM on that too).

    Qemu will emulate the type of CPU that we need.(and also the motherboard) We normally emulate the Penryn CPU for OSX sierra and onwards. However, you can actually pass through more modern CPU functions that your CPU may have by adding them to the XML and therefore increase performance in the guest, for example 

    
 <qemu:arg value='Penryn,vendor=GenuineIntel,kvm=on,+invtsc,+avx,+aes,+xsave,+xsaveopt,vmware-cpuid-freq=on,'/>

    Also using a dedicated GPU for the VM will give you better performance even if accessing it remotely. The GPU must be supported in the Hackintosh community to work just as a real Hackintosh. As @CHBMB says earlier you can pass through a GPU to multiple VMs (but not all at once.You can shutdown osx then boot windows with the same GPU)

     

     

    This looks interesting, any source articles or info as to what each of those does. Any idea how much improvement it makes?

    **VIDEO GUIDE** How to Install MacOS Mojave or High Sierra as a VM

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    4 minutes ago, CHBMB said:

    @archedraft  Looking at those cards that @gridrunner and @Schlichi posted, I think I may be onto something with the power.

     

    gridrunner's card takes and extra 5V via a SATA power cable

    Schlichi's card is solely powered from the PCI-E slot BUT he uses a powered hub.

     

    But then, your card uses the same chipset and also uses a 5V power supply, which is where my theory falls down.

     

    Would be helpful to know if gridrunner uses a USB hub at all with his card, and if so, if it's powered or not.

     

    arche this is like the old days! lol

     

    I have exactly the same card as @gridrunner as I bought it after he recommended it. Mine works fine but I only have devices plugged directly into the card, no hub used.

    **VIDEO GUIDE** How to Install MacOS Mojave or High Sierra as a VM

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    On 27/01/2018 at 6:55 PM, Brydezen said:

    I keep getting a connection to server error when trying to sign in on the app store? I already own a mac, and know my account is working. And i didn't type the password wrong either. :-( followed the guide for high sierra on point 

    Is iMessage working for you? I had to follow some guide on TonyMac86 about generating a new valid serial number first. Apple does some checking in the back end for things like iMessage and maybe that also applies to the App Store?

    by default the serial number created by clover might not be a valid one, you have to regenerate then check with Apple to make sure it is genuine. 

    **VIDEO GUIDE** How to Install MacOS Mojave or High Sierra as a VM

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    5 hours ago, ckoepf said:

     

    Awesome!  Any chance it was a formatting issue in the .xml when doing it through a text editor?  Definitely glad you got it working finally.

     

    What exactly is happening after Clover loads.  Are you able to select the disk to boot in the Clover menu or is the disk not in the Clover menu at all?

     

    If it was badly formed XML then I don't think it would save. There were a bunch of subtle differences but nothing which stood out to me. Oh well, I'll just keep this Ubuntu VM about to edit every now and again.

    [Request/Done] Let's Encrypt Container

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    On 26/07/2017 at 6:05 AM, Jessie said:

    Has anyone shared letsencrypt on the same network as a small business server?

    The issue is that both systems need port 443.

    I'm thinking you might be able to config letsencrypt to redirect to the sbs server but not sure how to do it.

     

     


    Yes I have done this. I have a bunch of subdomains all coming in over https and getting routed to different dockers or VMs. In addition I have an Open VPN server that is serving over 443 as many places block the standard VPN ports.

     

    So the question is how do you handle both incoming VPN traffic as well as a bunch of sub-domains? Some of the incoming traffic is for a Windows server setup and federation with ADFS so might be similar to SBS?

     

    There are two ways this can be achieved. The first is to have OpenVPN in front of nginx and use the ability for it to pass on non-VPN traffic. I had this setup for a few months but the performance was erratic and unstable. It worked but I would get timeouts sometimes on various websites I was hosting

     

    The second way is to do the routing in nginx using an nginx module called stream and that is what I have settled on and it works rather well although it sounds like your situation might be a little easier and the other thread more helpful :)

     

    Attached my config....

     

     

    nginx_sample.conf

    **VIDEO GUIDE** How to Install MacOS Mojave or High Sierra as a VM

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    On 19/01/2018 at 4:45 PM, planetwilson said:

    Anyone know how I make use of the previous folder on the tab drive to try and boot the previous version to try that out?

     

     

    Update: didn’t make any difference. Something else is going on bit frustrating

     

    So in the end I created a new VM and edited it with Virt Mgr form an Ubuntu VM as suggested slightly earlier. That seemed to resolve all my issues, passthough now working again. I can't quite work out what the changes in the XML were though.

    **VIDEO GUIDE** How to Install MacOS Mojave or High Sierra as a VM

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    I had this running pretty well for a few days then it stopped booting.  It looks like files on unraid were deleted (no idea how...).  I'm now 100's of miles away from the unraid server but I do still have the flash drive with the install files on it.  Is there anyway to do the install remotely?  I no longer have the .img file on the server that was created with the qemu-img command.
     
    Is there a way to do this remotely?


    That happened to me a few months ago. I assumed I had just done something daft and not realised.

    To access remotely I have OpenVPN installed in a docker to get onto my local network then access unRaid as normal

    **VIDEO GUIDE** How to Install MacOS Mojave or High Sierra as a VM

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    On 17/01/2018 at 1:01 PM, planetwilson said:

    yes I am coming to the same conclusion. I have ordered a super cheapo passive card to stick in so hopefully unRAID will use that and I can safely assign the main card to the VM. Does anyone know how unRAID decides? does it matter as it will switch to the other if I try to assign one to a VM?

     

    Well that didn't work :( tried dumping the ROM again as well.

     

    2018-01-19 10:50:53.254+0000: Domain id=1 is tainted: high-privileges
    2018-01-19 10:50:53.254+0000: Domain id=1 is tainted: custom-argv
    2018-01-19 10:50:53.254+0000: Domain id=1 is tainted: host-cpu
    2018-01-19T10:50:53.306628Z qemu-system-x86_64: -chardev pty,id=charserial0: char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 (label charserial0)
    2018-01-19T10:50:55.302315Z qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=03:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.3,addr=0x0,romfile=/mnt/cache/downloads/gtx950mw.dump: Failed to mmap 0000:03:00.0 BAR 3. Performance may be slow

     

    **VIDEO GUIDE** How to Install MacOS Mojave or High Sierra as a VM

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    Posted · Edited by planetwilson

    8 hours ago, ckoepf said:

     

    High Sierra works fine with either of 2 GTX 960 cards if they are not the primary card for unraid.  As far as passing the rom file, did you verify via an ssh connection to your server that you can definitely access the rom file via the path you entered in your xml file?  Being that your path is /mnt/disks/vmssd, I'm assuming that's an ssd that is not a shared drive that you mounted manually?  Just checking as I have rom files in the main domains folder that is a shared folder.

     

     

    2018-01-17T08:25:01.051885Z qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=02:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.4,addr=0x0,romfile=/mnt/disks/VMNVM/highsierra/gtx950.rom: Failed to mmap 0000:02:00.0 BAR 3. Performance may be slow
    usb_desc_get_descriptor: 2 unknown type 33 (len 10)
    usb_desc_get_descriptor: 1 unknown type 33 (len 10)
    usb_desc_get_descriptor: 1 unknown type 33 (len 10)
    2018-01-17T08:26:15.112664Z qemu-system-x86_64: vfio_region_write(0000:02:00.0:region3+0x1088, 0x7ffe11,8) failed: Device or resource busy
    2018-01-17T08:26:15.128268Z qemu-system-x86_64: vfio_err_notifier_handler(0000:02:00.1) Unrecoverable error detected. Please collect any data possible and then kill the guest
    2018-01-17T08:26:15.221718Z qemu-system-x86_64: vfio_err_notifier_handler(0000:02:00.0) Unrecoverable error detected. Please collect any data possible and then kill the guest
    2018-01-17T08:26:15.221765Z qemu-system-x86_64: vfio_err_notifier_handler(0000:02:00.1) Unrecoverable error detected. Please collect any data possible and then kill the guest

     

     

    yeah it is just an SSD unassigned device that I run VMs from. The High Sierra VM is running off another unassigned NVMe drive. I copied the ROM file to the same location as the disk images on the NVMe just to check and still get the same issue. I am thinking this might be to do with whether it is the only graphics card. I will need to test when I get back home by throwing in another old card I have.

    **VIDEO GUIDE** How to Install MacOS Mojave or High Sierra as a VM

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    Posted · Edited by planetwilson

    Has anyone got PCI graphics passthrough working on OSX with an NVidia card and did you have to do a BIOS dump for the card and include in the XML? I can see on @gridrunner's latest video for Windows he hasn't dumped a bios to get the card working in Windows...but it still doesn't work for me when I try that (no onboard graphics in my setup)

     

    UPDATE: followed GridRunner's video on NVidia as primary card and edited a ROM from techpowerup but still same result with that or my original dumped one.

     

    This was working at the weekend when I was on the RC21 release.

    **VIDEO GUIDE** How to Install MacOS Mojave or High Sierra as a VM

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    Posted · Edited by planetwilson

    I spoke too soon, mine was working fine but now when I start my VM I get an issue in mapping the NVidia rom file (I have a GTX 950)

     

    2018-01-15 09:11:09.940+0000: starting up libvirt version: 3.8.0, qemu version: 2.10.2, hostname: pwnas
    LC_ALL=C PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/ QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/local/sbin/qemu -name 'guest=High Sierra Gfx,debug-threads=on' -S -object 'secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-2-High Sierra Gfx/master-key.aes' -machine pc-q35-2.10,accel=kvm,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off,mem-merge=off -cpu host -drive file=/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,unit=0,readonly=on -drive file=/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/a2f6f8c2-8b33-11d9-6a41-87fa8f45543f_VARS-pure-efi.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,unit=1 -m 16384 -realtime mlock=off -smp 8,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=2 -uuid 920636ba-12a2-ee7c-eff6-a6575d058a7c -display none -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev 'socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-2-High Sierra Gfx/monitor.sock,server,nowait' -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=delay -no-hpet -no-shutdown -boot strict=on 000-82545em,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:8b:8f:ec,bus=pci.2,addr=0x0 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev 'socket,id=charchannel0,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/domain-2-High Sierra Gfx/org.qemu.guest_agent.0,server,nowait' -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0 -device usb-tablet,id=input0,bus=usb.0,port=1 -device vfio-pci,host=02:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.4,addr=0x0,romfile=/mnt/disks/VMSSD/vbiosbound.rom -device vfio-pci,host=02:00.1,id=hostdev1,bus=pci.5,addr=0x0 -device vfio-pci,host=07:00.0,id=hostdev2,bus=pci.6,addr=0x0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.3,addr=0x0 -usb -device usb-mouse,bus=usb-bus.0 -device usb-kbd,bus=usb-bus.0 -smbios type=2 -cpu Penryn,vendor=GenuineIntel,kvm=on,+invtsc,vmware-cpuid-freq=on, -msg timestamp=on
    2018-01-15 09:11:09.941+0000: Domain id=2 is tainted: high-privileges
    2018-01-15 09:11:09.941+0000: Domain id=2 is tainted: custom-argv
    2018-01-15 09:11:09.941+0000: Domain id=2 is tainted: host-cpu
    2018-01-15T09:11:09.987833Z qemu-system-x86_64: -chardev pty,id=charserial0: char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 (label charserial0)
    2018-01-15T09:11:11.798850Z qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=02:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.4,addr=0x0,romfile=/mnt/disks/VMSSD/vbiosbound.rom: Failed to mmap 0000:02:00.0 BAR 3. Performance may be slow
    2018-01-15T09:12:33.812985Z qemu-system-x86_64: vfio_region_write(0000:02:00.0:region3+0x1088, 0x7ffe11,8) failed: Device or resource busy
    2018-01-15T09:12:33.830419Z qemu-system-x86_64: vfio_err_notifier_handler(0000:02:00.1) Unrecoverable error detected. Please collect any data possible and then kill the guest

     

    I used to always get the red line about tainted domains, the yellow part about the ROM is new and stopping VM from booting.

     

    part where I passthrough (video and sound PCI devices from the graphics card) :- 

    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>
      <driver name='vfio'/>
      <source>
        <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
      </source>
      <rom file='/mnt/disks/VMSSD/vbiosbound.rom'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </hostdev>
    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>
      <driver name='vfio'/>
      <source>
        <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/>
      </source>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x05' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </hostdev>