macOS-KVM-PCI-Passthrough

I just researched a bit, mac os x guest vm with pcie passthrough seems possible on linux. Dropping the links below: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM https://github.com/yoonsikp/macOS-KVM-PCI-Passthrough

If you're looking to create a macOS VM (w/ GPU Passthrough), I've made a detailed guide here: https://github.com/yoonsikp/macOS-KVM-PCI-Passthrough I believe my guide is better at avoiding GPU driver initialization problems than others. I'll need to update it to support OpenCore however.

The arch linux wiki page [1] is a good place to start (Note you don't have to use arch for the host to get value out of the page, I use nixos), and/or the macos repo [2] (Or maybe this newer one [3]) The only real hurdle hardware wise is your IOMMU groups and your CPU compatibility, if you have a moderately modern system it should be a problem. I also have a couple of inexpensive PCIe USB cards that I pass through to the guests for direct USB access, highly recommended. The guides will use qcow2 images or pass through a block device, as I mentioned I have a giant LVM pool, I just create lvs for each vm and pass the volume through to the vm as a disk , and let the vm handle it. In the host you can use kpartx to bind and mount the partitions if you ever need to open them up. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM..

I actually hasn't tried it yet, but people are posting their kvm hackintosh setup on github, like this one: https://github.com/yoonsikp/macos-kvm-pci-passthrough People also reported great performance with hypervisors like esxi. I plan to try both methods and see which one works best for me.

I'm not quite sure why they say q35 chipset has bugs, I'm currently running Mojave without bugs on a q35 configuration. Also, they're making questionable choices regarding keyboard and mouse configuration. What you should really be doing is passing through a complete USB3 controller (either from the Chipset or from an external USB3 pcie card), with a mouse and keyboard attached to it. Finally, I would recommend using an AMD RX500 series card, which has native support in macOS, and absolutely no extra Clover flags required (10.13.6 and up). Also, the guide assumes a lot from the reader (someone who already knows how to do PCIe passthrough in qemu). I wrote a guide here that explains everything I wrote above, and actually starts from the basics: https://github.com/yoonsikp/macos-kvm-pci-passthrough