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Using other Display adapter types as "Standard VGA" and "VirGL GPU" will allow you to change the resolution from the MacOS guest itself, but the Spice connection is much better than the VNC connection that you can use with these devices. Using these devices could be helpful if you using [https://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/mac-os/ Team Viewer] as client. | |||
== Switch the Resolution while using SPICE/QXL == | |||
In my case getting the audio operational is critical, because I'm actually doing this setup for browser compatibility tests of web pages and other applications. Otherwise the flash videos and HTML5 videos fails in Safari. | |||
* Use Team Viewer: Install team [https://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/mac-os/ Team Viewer Host] application (or the full application) it will set an Aggregate audio device. Setup the application to accept direct LAN connections and use Team Viewer to connect to the guest via its IP. | So I've tested the following successful solutions: | ||
* Use Spice client: Within the Spice client attach some USB audio device - i.e. Bluetooth adapter and connect Headphones to that device from the guest MacOS. In this case you should create enough number of USB devices which use Spice driver within the Proxmox's VM configuration. | |||
' | * Setup dummy output by the help of [https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/how-to-create-a-virtual-audio-output-device-on-mac-os-stacks/1119?u=viktorbenei Soundflower] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IQNhXWaaO0 YouTube]). | ||
* Use Team Viewer: Install team [https://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/mac-os/ Team Viewer Host] application (or the full application) it will set an Aggregate audio device. Setup the application to accept direct LAN connections and use Team Viewer as client to connect to the guest via its IP. I think having dummy output setup by Soundflower increases the audio quality via Team Viewer. | |||
* Use Spice client: | |||
** Pass an audio device from the remote instance: Within the Spice client attach some USB audio device - i.e. Bluetooth adapter and connect Headphones to that device from the guest MacOS. In this case you should create enough number of USB devices which use Spice driver within the Proxmox's VM configuration. | |||
** Setup VoodooHDA as it is shown in the following section. | |||
== Change the OpenCore's Picker Settings == | |||
You can change the OpenCore's boot menu Picker options, via <code>'''config.plist'''</code> file in the following way: | |||
*Use [https://github.com/corpnewt/MountEFI MountEFI] and mount the EFI. | *Use [https://github.com/corpnewt/MountEFI MountEFI] and mount the EFI. |
Revision as of 18:03, 24 October 2022
Proxmox Setup and MacOS Installation
Great manual provided by i12bretro which I've used to install MacOS 13 Venture:
- YouTube: Running a MacOS Monterey VM in ProxMox VE (also much comments about GPU PT are provided there)
- Guide: Running a MacOS Monterey VM in ProxMox VE (local copy of the guide)
Below is shown my final configuration file.
cat /etc/pve/qemu-server/207.conf
args: -device isa-applesmc,osk="ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc" -smbios type=2 -device usb-kbd,bus=ehci.0,port=2 -global nec-usb-xhci.msi=off -cpu host,kvm=on,vendor=GenuineIntel,+kvm_pv_unhalt,+kvm_pv_eoi,+hypervisor,+invtsc
audio0: device=ich9-intel-hda,driver=spice
bios: ovmf
boot: order=virtio0
cores: 4
cpu: Penryn
efidisk0: ssd-1TB:207/vm-207-disk-0.qcow2,efitype=4m,size=528K
machine: q35
memory: 16384
meta: creation-qemu=7.0.0,ctime=1666276060
name: MacOS13
net0: vmxnet3=C2:63:A3:4E:7E:E7,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 0
ostype: other
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=ac933204-a2a1-4915-aeee-60259bfb3fc1
sockets: 4
spice_enhancements: foldersharing=1,videostreaming=all
tablet: 1
tpmstate0: ssd-1TB:207/vm-207-disk-1.raw,size=4M,version=v2.0
usb0: spice,usb3=1
usb1: spice,usb3=1
usb2: host=0bda:8179,usb3=1
vga: qxl,memory=128
virtio0: local-lvm:vm-207-disk-0,discard=on,size=80G
Pot Installation Setup
Currently I'm using Spice/QXL for display driver. Note there is not MacOS guest tool available and this is the reason we can't change the resolution within the guest.
Switch the Resolution while using SPICE/QXL
We can set different resolutions within the OpenCore EFI settings by the following steps (as reference see the section Configuring Booting Without OpenCore Mounted from the manual cited above).
- Use MountEFI and mount the EFI.
- Use the MacOS's file manager and navigate to the mounted EFI partition.
- Edit the file
EFI/OC/config.plist
– find and modify the following<string>
directive, note only one resolution will be accepted and the fallback resolution is that defined in the OVMF UEFI settings:<key>Resolution</key> <string>1920x1080@32</string>
<string>1280x960@32</string>
<string>1280x960@16</string>
Here is a helper script that rotates two templates of EFI/OC/config-{1920x1080,1280x960}.plist
– note you need to prepare the two templates.
nano ~/bin/change-resolution.sh
#!/bin/bash
# List the available devices
# diskutil list
function main() {
if [[ ! -z ${1+x} ]]
then
diskutil unmount /Volumes/efi 2>/dev/null
mkdir -p /Volumes/efi
mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/efi
sleep 1
if [[ -f /Volumes/efi/EFI/OC/config-${1}.plist ]]
then
echo "Template in use: /Volumes/efi/EFI/OC/config-${1}.plist"
sleep 1
cp /Volumes/efi/EFI/OC/{config-$1,config}.plist
sleep 1
diskutil unmount /Volumes/efi
reboot
exit
fi
diskutil unmount /Volumes/efi
fi
sleep 1
echo "Usage: $0 '1920x1080|1280x960'"
}
# https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/269080
FUNC=$(declare -f main)
sudo bash -c "$FUNC; main"
change-resolution.sh "1280x960"
Using other Display adapter types as "Standard VGA" and "VirGL GPU" will allow you to change the resolution from the MacOS guest itself, but the Spice connection is much better than the VNC connection that you can use with these devices. Using these devices could be helpful if you using Team Viewer as client.
Switch the Resolution while using SPICE/QXL
In my case getting the audio operational is critical, because I'm actually doing this setup for browser compatibility tests of web pages and other applications. Otherwise the flash videos and HTML5 videos fails in Safari.
So I've tested the following successful solutions:
- Setup dummy output by the help of Soundflower (YouTube).
- Use Team Viewer: Install team Team Viewer Host application (or the full application) it will set an Aggregate audio device. Setup the application to accept direct LAN connections and use Team Viewer as client to connect to the guest via its IP. I think having dummy output setup by Soundflower increases the audio quality via Team Viewer.
- Use Spice client:
- Pass an audio device from the remote instance: Within the Spice client attach some USB audio device – i.e. Bluetooth adapter and connect Headphones to that device from the guest MacOS. In this case you should create enough number of USB devices which use Spice driver within the Proxmox's VM configuration.
- Setup VoodooHDA as it is shown in the following section.
Change the OpenCore's Picker Settings
You can change the OpenCore's boot menu Picker options, via config.plist
file in the following way:
- Use MountEFI and mount the EFI.
- Use the MacOS's file manager and navigate to the mounted EFI partition.
- Edit the file
EFI/OC/config.plist
and modify the following directives:<key>ShowPicker</key> <true/> <!-- Set this to 'false' if you want to disable the picker --> <key>Timeout</key> <integer>5</integer> <!-- 0 will disable the timeout, currently it is 5 seconds -->
All available options are described within the OpenCore's Configuration manual (PDF file).
Download Links
- RuTracker.org: macOS Ventura 13.0 Beta 8 (22A5352e) [ISO] [Intel/Apple]
- Corpnewt at GitHub: MountEFI
- Thenickdude at GitHub: KVM-Opencore
MacOS usage references:
- Ask Different: Does macOS have equivalent command line tools like
lshw
orlspci
? - Sickcodes at GitHub: OSX-optimizer (i.e. Skip the GUI login screen..)
Misc References
- Another useful guide provided by Austin's Nerdy Things:
- Mac Ports: Quick start | spice-server