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NOTE: The 'iommu=1 intel_iommu=on' grub settings are required to enable PCI Pass-Through > cat /sys/module/kvm/parameters/ignore_msrs Next ensure nested virtualisation in on NOTE: the iommu=1 intel_iommu=on are critical if you want to use PCI Pass-through GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='iommu=1 intel_iommu=on ipv6.disable=1' # For full documentation of the options in this file, see: # If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update If you want to use PCI Pass-through the you should update your grub boot configuration, here are KVM Kernal Configuration parameters that are relevant: - edit grub defaults and as per direction ensure you do sudo update-grub afterward Ubuntu 20.04 - have tested and have running number of macOS vm's as part of upgrade process from 19.10.Ubuntu 19.10 - having done testing, I am now using 19.10 as main virtualisation host.Ubuntu 19.04 - As per 18.04 and boots macOS much much faster.

#UEFI EMULATOR MAC HOW TO#

Ubuntu 18.04 - Works out of box, but introduces NetPlan, so you need to learn how to configure your bridge (linux virtual switch) to get your networking working, also it is very very slow to boot macOS.

Ubuntu 16.04 - Requires compile of upstream QEMU (avoid).

Here is summary of various Ubuntu Versions (desktop): I am now running 20.04 LTS and have found it completely stable for running virtual macOS on KVM. I then moved to Ubuntu 18.04 (which does not require any compilation) and updated to 19.04 (which has much much better performance) and have tested with 19.10. At the time this required recompiling of QEMU. I started experimenting with macOS on KVM with Ubuntu 16.04. I will cover each area of configuration in turn.

Optionally add PCI Pass-Through for network and GPU support on you virtualised macOS machine.

Create your Mac VM using the right QEMU configuration and settings for macOS.

Configure Ubuntu network bridge with NetPlan.

Get Ubuntu running with virtualisation enabled.

Here are the high level steps and instructions required to get macOS (OS X) up and running on Ubuntu with KVM / QEMU.

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For Mac developer, this meant a choice of VMWare or Parallels and now you can also use Linux with KVM / QEMU and Clover/OVMF. In fact runing virtual machines for development is pretty much essential for anything that is non-trival. If you do Mac development then its likely you will run virtual Mac's. Now verified with Ubuntu 20.04 and completed some further Q35 Version and Network device testing.

Status - 17 July 2020 - Core information collected.

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