What am I missing? I cannot get High Sierra to install on my unRAID system.
It's a bit of a strange tale. I followed GridRunner's video tutorial and created a bootable USB (Which I know works as it appears on an existing clover installation and boots to the select language screen if selected.)
A couple of times I have been able to get the VM to boot and start the install process. I erased the secondary drive and selected it for the install. The VM reboots and I select this disc to continue the installation. It then fails with about 15 minutes remaining, stating I cannot install high Sierra on the Mac. Selecting Install from this prompt rolls back fine, but the installation will not get past this point.
I have deleted the VM and virtual drives and started again from scratch - recreating the USB boot using the latest version of Clover and copying the config.plist recommended by GridRunner to the efi/clover partition. Now, when I attempt to start the VM, all I see is the Apple logo with no progress bar. (Again this will boot from an existing Clover install)
I've tried adding the -v (verbose) flag to clover options but the VM just hangs if I try to add the flag and needs to be force-stopped.
Can anyone give me some advice or spot what I've missed? The USB is created from an existing Hackintosh system, rather than a genuine MAC, but I've successfully installed several non-virtualized systems this way.
XML from the initial VM
<domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>
<name>MacOS</name>
<uuid>85ce37f6-415c-1852-30cc-aba9597a13e6</uuid>
<description>High Sierra</description>
<metadata>
<vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="Linux" icon="linux.png" os="linux"/>
</metadata>
<memory unit='KiB'>8388608</memory>
<currentMemory unit='KiB'>8388608</currentMemory>
<memoryBacking>
<nosharepages/>
</memoryBacking>
<vcpu placement='static'>6</vcpu>
<cputune>
<vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='1'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='5'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='2'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='6'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='3'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='7'/>
</cputune>
<os>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-2.9'>hvm</type>
<loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd</loader>
<nvram>/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/85ce37f6-415c-1852-30cc-aba9597a13e6_VARS-pure-efi.fd</nvram>
</os>
<features>
<acpi/>
<apic/>
</features>
<cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'>
<topology sockets='1' cores='3' threads='2'/>
</cpu>
<clock offset='utc'>
<timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/>
<timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/>
<timer name='hpet' present='no'/>
</clock>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>restart</on_crash>
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/>
<source file='/mnt/disks/WDC_WD1002FAEX-00Y9A0_WD-WCAW34505584/highsierra.img'/>
<target dev='hdc' bus='sata'/>
<boot order='1'/>
<address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='2'/>
</disk>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/>
<source file='/mnt/user/domains/MacOS/vdisk2.img'/>
<target dev='hdd' bus='sata'/>
<address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='3'/>
</disk>
<controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci1'>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x7'/>
</controller>
<controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci1'>
<master startport='0'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/>
</controller>
<controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci2'>
<master startport='2'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x1'/>
</controller>
<controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'>
<master startport='4'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x2'/>
</controller>
<controller type='sata' index='0'>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1f' function='0x2'/>
</controller>
<controller type='pci' index='0' model='pcie-root'/>
<controller type='pci' index='1' model='pcie-root-port'>
<model name='pcie-root-port'/>
<target chassis='1' port='0x10'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/>
</controller>
<controller type='pci' index='2' model='pcie-root-port'>
<model name='pcie-root-port'/>
<target chassis='2' port='0x11'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x1'/>
</controller>
<controller type='pci' index='3' model='pcie-root-port'>
<model name='pcie-root-port'/>
<target chassis='3' port='0x12'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x2'/>
</controller>
<controller type='pci' index='4' model='pcie-root-port'>
<model name='pcie-root-port'/>
<target chassis='4' port='0x13'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x3'/>
</controller>
<controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</controller>
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='52:54:00:95:b6:95'/>
<source bridge='br0'/>
<model type='e1000-82545em'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</interface>
<serial type='pty'>
<target type='isa-serial' port='0'>
<model name='isa-serial'/>
</target>
</serial>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='serial' port='0'/>
</console>
<channel type='unix'>
<target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/>
<address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/>
</channel>
<input type='tablet' bus='usb'>
<address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/>
</input>
<input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
<input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>
<graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' websocket='-1' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='en-gb'>
<listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/>
</graphics>
<video>
<model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/>
</video>
<memballoon model='virtio'>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</memballoon>
</devices>
<qemu:commandline>
<qemu:arg value='-usb'/>
<qemu:arg value='-device'/>
<qemu:arg value='usb-mouse,bus=usb-bus.0'/>
<qemu:arg value='-device'/>
<qemu:arg value='usb-kbd,bus=usb-bus.0'/>
<qemu:arg value='-smbios'/>
<qemu:arg value='type=2'/>
<qemu:arg value='-cpu'/>
<qemu:arg value='Penryn,vendor=GenuineIntel,kvm=on,+invtsc,vmware-cpuid-freq=on,'/>
</qemu:commandline>
</domain>