Now you can start the installation process. You can do that with your favorite GUI text editor or from the terminal with nano, micro or vim.Ħ. If you can “afford” it, change the default CPU values too. But before we do, let’s edit the OpenCore-Boot.sh and add more RAM ( by default it’s set to use 3 gigs of RAM ).Ĩ gigs should be enough. Also if, for any reason, you want to change the name of the disk image from mac_hdd.img to something else, you’ll also have to update OpenCore-BS.sh to point to the new image name.ĥ. NOTE: You can change the size of the virtual drive.

Run qemu-img create -f qcow2 mac_hdd_ng.img 128G Create a virtual HDD image where macOS will be installed. You can do that by running qemu-img convert BaseSystem.dmg -O raw BaseSystem.imgĤ. When the download is complete you’ll need to convert the downloaded BaseSystem.dmg file into the required BaseSystem.img. Modern NVIDIA GPUs are supported on High Sierra but not on later versions of macOS.ģ. NOTE: Here you can choose which macOS you want to install. When you’re done cloning the git repo, cd into path with cd OSX-KVMĢ. Open terminal and run git clone -depth 1 -recursive. NOTE: Adjust install command and, possibly, packages names according to your distro.Īdd user to the kvm and libvirt groups ( reboot after adding ):ġ. Open the terminal and run: sudo apt install qemu uml-utilities virt-manager dmg2img git wget libguestfs-tools p7zip

Internet access for the installation process.

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