the extension doesn't matter, but I would prefer a .qcow2 extension, just to recognize it.

amazing - I edited the XML (type='qcow2' + source fil=/.../macOS_disk.qcow2) and that worked!!! Thank you so so much

 

 

 

9 hours ago, ghost82 said:

No, it has nothing to do with trim.

Try to boot into recovery, keep '0' pressed on vm boot (if you don't see the bootloader gui - opencanopy) and choose 'recovery'; once booted into recovery choose disk utility; select 'show all disks/devices', select each container and run repair, such as in the following picture:

 

 

Sorry last thing - I am trying to fix this separate issue of mac hanging on shutdown ocassionally. I can't seem to figure out how to access the recovery boot partition. I have tried pressing the 0 button held down, spammed it (both tried via the VNC window pre-opened and starting up the VM from fresh as well as restarting inside).

 

Do you have any idea how i can access the recovery partition if those don't work? I seem to remember tweaking something in openconfig to "disable picker", not sure if that disabled me accessing the recovery partition.

Mount the efi partition inside mac os, open /EFI/OC/config.plist with a plain text editor, search for showpicker and set it to true.

I think you can try to repair the disk also within mac os, without booting recovery, just run disk utility from Applications/utilities...worth a try...