simone-minto-prorob / OSX-KVM-lite

Run macOS on QEMU/KVM with pre installed Monterey

Note

This is the fork of kholia/OSX-KVM with just a little simpler setup. I have personally tried both macOS-Simple-KVM by foxlet and kholia's OSX-KVM. I like the simplicity of macOS-Simple-KVM . This fork uses the same code but makes the installation a little easier .

Requirements

• A modern Linux distribution. E.g. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit or later.

• QEMU >= 6.2.0

• A CPU with Intel VT-x / AMD SVM support is required (grep -e vmx -e svm /proc/cpuinfo)

• A CPU with SSE4.1 support is required for >= macOS Sierra

• A CPU with AVX2 support is required for >= macOS Mojave

Note: Older AMD CPU(s) are known to be problematic. AMD FX-8350 works but Phenom II X3 720 does not. Ryzen processors work just fine.

Installation Preparation

• Clone this repository on your QEMU system. Files from this repository are used in the following steps.

  cd ~
  
  git clone --depth 1 --recursive https://github.com/SomeoneAlt-86/OSX-KVM.git
  
  cd OSX-KVM
  

  Repository updates can be pulled via the following command:

  git pull --rebase
  

  This repository uses rebase based workflows heavily.

Boot to MacOS

• CLI method (primary). Just run the init.sh script to initialize basically everything and make your computer ready to boot MacOS.

  chmod +x init.sh
  ./init.sh
  

  • The script creates an alias OSX for directly booting macOS

  OSX 
  

Motivation

It's just the plain OSX-KVM but with a little simpler setup, so that you are ready to go in no time.