[Support] SpaceinvaderOne - Macinabox

[ghost82]

1 hour ago, TheSpatulaOfLove said:

I headed over to the Content Caching function and the checkbox is still grey.

Hi, there's no solution at the time of writing for recent version of big sur (>=11.3), so applying the mentioned patch to the kernel is not enough.

Apple in recent os checks for some other and that's why we are still unable to enable content cache.

It's far from my knowledge on how to write a new patch, because it could require the coding of a lilu plugin.

 

Apple is also changing a lot of things with monterey and ota delta updates: we are aware of what's causing this, but changes to bootloader are in standby, and they will be probably pushed in a pr when monterey release will be out.

Edited September 9, 2021 by ghost82

[TheSpatulaOfLove]

52 minutes ago, ghost82 said:

Hi, there's no solution at the time of writing for recent version of big sur (>=11.3), so applying the mentioned patch to the kernel is not enough.

Apple in recent os checks for some other and that's why we are still unable to enable content cache.

It's far from my knowledge on how to write a new patch, because it could require the coding of a lilu plugin.

 

Apple is also changing a lot of things with monterey and ota delta updates: we are aware of what's causing this, but changes to bootloader are in standby, and they will be probably pushed in a pr when monterey release will be out.

 

Thanks for the clarification.  

 

I'm not looking to do anything super-whiz-bang on this VM.   Content caching was a nice to have, but what I'm most interested in was having all the iOS devices (10 of them) wirelessly sync/backup to the OSX VM since no one in my family seems to care about backing their crap up. 

 

In order to meet my objectives within the limits of the current state, would you recommend I start over with a High Sierra (or other) install?

 

Edited September 9, 2021 by TheSpatulaOfLove

[ghost82]

12 minutes ago, TheSpatulaOfLove said:

In order to meet my objectives within the limits of the current state, would you recommend I start over with a High Sierra (or other) install?

I don't recommend high sierra if you care about security.

Latest oses which are receiving security updates are Mojave, Catalina, and Big Sur (support for Mojave will end when Monterey will come out).

And usually it's better to have the latest os, so for the time being, I would recommend Big Sur.

Moreover, I don't know if Catalina/Mojave are affected by the same issue (patch VMM to XXX not working), as this thing could have been introduced with latest security updates for all supported oses.

Edited September 9, 2021 by ghost82

[Coolant]

~~PREFACE~~
Hi, This is my first VM i'm a total noob.

 

So I'm going thru the tutorial and I get to the Mac recovery system part where you format the disk and then you click Reinstall macOS Big Sur. it then tells me I have no internet connection to download it.

I think its because I have a bounded connection:
bond0    load balancing (xor), mtu 1500    
eth0    1000 Mbps, full duplex, mtu 1500    
eth1    1000 Mbps, full duplex, mtu 1500    

 

I'm not sure if its a XML I need to edit or in this thread they installed some vertio NIC:

 

 

Ive read also that its a bug in the KVM with bounded connections 

Not sure if its still there or if they fixed it 

Anyway Im not even sure where you start because I'm not even sure what's wrong but that is what I've found. 

What I've tried
I'm running in bridge mode didn't work also tried Host and didn't work

[cam217]

Hi guys,

I assembled a new server recently for CAD and backups.
The hardware is: AMD 3900X, 32Gb of RAM, Gigabyte x570 Aorus Master and a quadro P2000.
I already got a vbios for the graphic card as I created a windows 10 VM that uses the graphic card passed through and it works well.

A client would like me to switch to an other software that runs on macOS so I created a Big Sur VM for that purpose following Ed's tutorial video. The created VM works fine by default but once I add more cores or ram it just fails to start.

The default VM has this in the logs and starts successfully:

2021-09-11 14:51:29.452+0000: Domain id=13 is tainted: high-privileges
2021-09-11 14:51:29.452+0000: Domain id=13 is tainted: custom-argv
2021-09-11 14:51:29.452+0000: Domain id=13 is tainted: host-cpu
char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 (label charserial0)
2021-09-11T14:51:29.536602Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pcid [bit 17]
2021-09-11T14:51:29.538455Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pcid [bit 17]

 

The modified VM with more cores/ram does not start and has the following in the logs:
 

2021-09-11 15:05:15.443+0000: Domain id=14 is tainted: high-privileges
2021-09-11 15:05:15.443+0000: Domain id=14 is tainted: custom-argv
2021-09-11 15:05:15.443+0000: Domain id=14 is tainted: host-cpu
char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 (label charserial0)
2021-09-11T15:05:15.518389Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pcid [bit 17]
2021-09-11T15:05:15.520125Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pcid [bit 17]
2021-09-11T15:05:15.521351Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pcid [bit 17]
2021-09-11T15:05:15.522640Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pcid [bit 17]
2021-09-11T15:05:15.523874Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pcid [bit 17]
2021-09-11T15:05:15.525117Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pcid [bit 17]
2021-09-11T15:05:15.526324Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pcid [bit 17]
2021-09-11T15:05:15.527554Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pcid [bit 17]
2021-09-11T15:05:15.528849Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pcid [bit 17]
2021-09-11T15:05:15.530110Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pcid [bit 17]
2021-09-11T15:05:15.531380Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pcid [bit 17]
2021-09-11T15:05:15.532699Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.pcid [bit 17]

 

I don't understand why the default VM starts and not the modified one as it seems to be the same kind of warnings as in the default VM.
I followed recommended steps in the video and always ran the script after modifying the VM. I also tried to modify the script with the option REMOVETOPOLOGY set to yes for non-standard hardware but it doesn't help. I can get the VM working again by changing the xml file back to its default settings after the installation (2 CPU cores and 4 Gb of ram)

I'm not even trying to add the graphics card yet.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

Edited September 11, 2021 by cam217

[ghost82]

On 9/11/2021 at 5:15 PM, cam217 said:

I don't understand why the default VM starts and not the modified one as it seems to be the same kind of warnings as in the default VM.

Logs are ok, nothing to worry about.

Most probably you missed to add again the custom qemu args at the bottom of the xml:

https://github.com/SpaceinvaderOne/Macinabox/blob/master/xml/Macinabox BigSur.xml#L134-L144

[cam217]

2 minutes ago, ghost82 said:

Logs are ok, nothing to worry about.

Most probably you missed to add again the custom qemu args at the bottom of the xml:

https://github.com/SpaceinvaderOne/Macinabox/blob/master/xml/Macinabox BigSur.xml#L134-L144

Hi,

Thanks. I believe I have tried.

I actually modify a bit the xml and then starts again the VM to check if it works. It does not seems to accept it very well when I try to add the graphics card.
Here's what works right now in my xml
 

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>
  <name>Macinabox BigSur</name>
  <uuid>03a0178a-b9cd-4a0b-b8e8-48d418330bd2</uuid>
  <description>MacOS Big Sur</description>
  <metadata>
    <vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="BigSur" icon="BigSur.png" os="osx"/>
  </metadata>
  <memory unit='KiB'>25165824</memory>
  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>25165824</currentMemory>
  <memoryBacking>
    <nosharepages/>
  </memoryBacking>
  <vcpu placement='static'>18</vcpu>
  <cputune>
    <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='1'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='13'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='3'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='15'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='5'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='17'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='6' cpuset='6'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='7' cpuset='18'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='8' cpuset='7'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='9' cpuset='19'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='10' cpuset='8'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='11' cpuset='20'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='12' cpuset='9'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='13' cpuset='21'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='14' cpuset='10'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='15' cpuset='22'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='16' cpuset='11'/>
    <vcpupin vcpu='17' cpuset='23'/>
  </cputune>
  <os>
    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-5.1'>hvm</type>
    <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/mnt/user/system/custom_ovmf/Macinabox_CODE-pure-efi.fd</loader>
    <nvram>/mnt/user/system/custom_ovmf/Macinabox_VARS-pure-efi.fd</nvram>
  </os>
  <features>
    <acpi/>
    <apic/>
  </features>
  <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none' migratable='on'/>
  <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/user/isos/BigSur-opencore.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/Macinabox BigSur/macos_disk.img'/>
      <target dev='hdd' bus='sata'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='4'/>
    </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='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <mac address='52:54:00:9d:00:66'/>
      <source bridge='br0'/>
      <model type='e1000-82545em'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' 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-us'>
      <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-kbd,bus=usb-bus.0'/>
    <qemu:arg value='-device'/>
    <qemu:arg value='************************'/>
    <qemu:arg value='-smbios'/>
    <qemu:arg value='type=2'/>
    <qemu:arg value='-cpu'/>
    <qemu:arg value='Penryn,kvm=on,vendor=GenuineIntel,+invtsc,vmware-cpuid-freq=on,+pcid,+ssse3,+sse4.2,+popcnt,+avx,+aes,+xsave,+xsaveopt,check'/>
  </qemu:commandline>
</domain>

 

[ghost82]

26 minutes ago, cam217 said:

It does not seems to accept it very well when I try to add the graphics card

Please be more specific, qemu error or hang during boot?

Which gpu?

Post your xml (problematic) once you passthrough the gpu.

[cam217]

As with most, logs doesn't show anything specific. The booting process hangs for ever and I have to force the VM to shutdown.

As I mentioned in my first post, I use a Nvidia Quadro P2000. That same GPU is also used (not at the same time of course) in an other VM which uses Windows 10 Pro passed through and it works with the vbios.
To try to add the graphics card I add the following code

    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>
      <driver name='vfio'/>
      <source>
        <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x0b' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
      </source>
      <rom file='/mnt/user/isos/vbios/Quadro_P2000_DL.rom'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x00' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/>
    </hostdev>
    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>
      <driver name='vfio'/>
      <source>
        <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x0b' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/>
      </source>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/>
    </hostdev>

 

In place of

    <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' websocket='-1' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='en-us'>
      <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>

 

Thanks for helping 😊

[ghost82]

7 minutes ago, cam217 said:

As I mentioned in my first post, I use a Nvidia Quadro P2000

Since the P2000 is a Pascal architecture it will never work in Big Sur.

Highest support mac os should be high sierra with nvidia web drivers+lilu+whatevergreen.

[cam217]

This explains a lot, thanks again 🙂

[Malachi89]

For some reason the USER SCRIPTS didn’t come down with the app when I installed it. I uninstalled and re-installed following the tutorial video (removing app, data and template) and rebooted server. STILL no macinabox scripts…. any thoughts?

[cam217]

1 hour ago, Malachi89 said:

For some reason the USER SCRIPTS didn’t come down with the app when I installed it. I uninstalled and re-installed following the tutorial video (removing app, data and template) and rebooted server. STILL no macinabox scripts…. any thoughts?

 

It should work fine but here they are (links expires in a week):

1_macinabox_helper ; 1_macinabox_vmready_notify

[Kudagra]

Could someone please post the original OpenCore "config.plist" for the "Big Sur" install?

 

I'm trying to check out the "AGPMInjector.kext" settings SpaceInvader used.

 

Edited September 14, 2021 by Kudagra

[Malachi89]

I followed along the tutorial video without issue until we turned off the VM, updated core/RAM, userscripts, started VM. It asked me to choose my drive, chose bigsur (like i named it) and I get stuck at this. Any thoughts? I’ve redone this VM again and same issue. Tried different core/ram settings, default included. Nada.

[cam217]

1 minute ago, Malachi89 said:

I followed along the tutorial video without issue until we turned off the VM, updated core/RAM, userscripts, started VM. It asked me to choose my drive, chose bigsur (like i named it) and I get stuck at this. Any thoughts? I’ve redone this VM again and same issue. Tried different core/ram settings, default included. Nada.

I went down this exact path last week-end. Get back to your stock XML and edit one by one ram and CPUs and start over the VM to make sure it does starts each time you modify anything.
The only thing that does not work here when you're stuck on that screen is your VM XML.

[Malachi89]

2 minutes ago, cam217 said:

I went down this exact path last week-end. Get back to your stock XML and edit one by one ram and CPUs and start over the VM to make sure it does starts each time you modify anything.
The only thing that does not work here when you're stuck on that screen is your VM XML.

Do you mean go as far as adding one core at a time, and boot in between each, or just edit one FIELD at a time, with a boot in between?

[cam217]

8 minutes ago, Malachi89 said:

Do you mean go as far as adding one core at a time, and boot in between each, or just edit one FIELD at a time, with a boot in between?

 

Yep, one field at a time so you know what's causing an issue.

 

Keep in mind that you need to run Ed's user script each time and modify it if you get an unusual amount of cores.

Edited September 15, 2021 by cam217

[damnshaneisthatu]

37 minutes ago, cam217 said:

I went down this exact path last week-end. Get back to your stock XML and edit one by one ram and CPUs and start over the VM to make sure it does starts each time you modify anything.
The only thing that does not work here when you're stuck on that screen is your VM XML.

Running into the same thing here. Is there a way to revert to stock XML? I thought I selected all the original specs, but I still can't get it to boot properly.

[cam217]

If you have not backed it up I don't think there is. Maybe you can get it somewhere in this topic.
Mine is already modified a few posts up.

EDIT: You could try to modify yours with bits of mine. I think the one thing that messed things up for me was modifying the SATA drives.

Edited September 15, 2021 by cam217

[Malachi89]

5 hours ago, cam217 said:

 

Yep, one field at a time so you know what's causing an issue.

 

Keep in mind that you need to run Ed's user script each time and modify it if you get an unusual amount of cores.

Good news is you were bang on! I added everything one at a time, updated the SCRIPT, started. BAM. 

I am now stuck at one part. GPU passthrough comes up a black screen. I can switch back to VNC, and it works. But still. Doing some digging. Running a Gigabyte AMD Radeon RT 5700 XT.

[cam217]

1 hour ago, Malachi89 said:

Good news is you were bang on! I added everything one at a time, updated the SCRIPT, started. BAM. 

I am now stuck at one part. GPU passthrough comes up a black screen. I can switch back to VNC, and it works. But still. Doing some digging. Running a Gigabyte AMD Radeon RT 5700 XT.

 

These is also a video from Ed explaining the graphics card passthrough. Eventually you'll need to dump your card firmware.

Been there as well for a windows 10 VM, and I'm fucked as Quadro cards with pascal architecture will not work in macOS 😅

 

Good luck 😊

[damnshaneisthatu]

22 hours ago, cam217 said:

EDIT: You could try to modify yours with bits of mine. I think the one thing that messed things up for me was modifying the SATA drives.

 

Did you find a fix for this? Or was it just restoring the other drives?

[Malachi89]

21 hours ago, cam217 said:

 

These is also a video from Ed explaining the graphics card passthrough. Eventually you'll need to dump your card firmware.

Been there as well for a windows 10 VM, and I'm fucked as Quadro cards with pascal architecture will not work in macOS 😅

 

Good luck 😊

ROUND 34! hahah followed multiple of his GPU passthrough videos and his GPU dump and STILL nada! Tried HDMI and Display, moved to different slots on MOBO, reinstalled the MacOS VM twice since…. GPU is where she gets stuck each time. Regardless of my playing around.

[cam217]

Sorry, I can’t help beyond Ed’s video scope for pass through as I’m not knowledgeable enough for that matter.