PVE Guest MacOS 13 Venture Setup
Proxmox Setup and Mac OS Installation
Great manual provided by i12bretro which I've used to install Mac OS 13 Venture:
- YouTube: Running a Mac OS Monterey VM in Proxmox VE (also much comments about GPU PT are provided there)
- Guide: Running a Mac OS Monterey VM in Proxmox VE (local copy of the guide)
Below is shown my final configuration file.
cat /etc/pve/qemu-server/207.conf
agent: 0
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,+pcid,+xsave,+xsaveopt,check
#-cpu Penryn,kvm=on,vendor=GenuineIntel,\
#+kvm_pv_unhalt,+kvm_pv_eoi,+hypervisor,+invtsc,+pcid,\
#+ssse3,+sse4.2,+popcnt,+avx,+avx2,+aes,+fma,+fma4,+bmi1,\
#+bmi2,+xsave,+xsaveopt,check \
#-device intel-hda,id=sound5,bus=pci.0,addr=0x18 \
#-device hda-micro,id=sound5-codec0,bus=sound5.0,cad=0 \
#-device hda-duplex,id=sound5-codec1,bus=sound5.0,cad=1 \
#-device hda-output
audio0: device=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: MacOS.13
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: 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: spice,usb3=1
vga: qxl,memory=128
virtio0: local-lvm:vm-207-disk-0,discard=on,size=80G
vmgenid: 64c40db4-c6f3-4c42-b9ed-95a02e08fa15
- Note my Proxmox VE host is installed on Think Server TD350 with Intel Xeon E5-2673 v.3 and I do not need to pass additional CPU args.
Post Installation Setup
Currently I'm using Spice/QXL for display driver. Note there is not Mac OS 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 Mac OS'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 EFI 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 Mac OS 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.
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 Mac OS'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). Here is a video guide: How to skip OpenCore boot picker.
Enable the Audio 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 HTML 5 videos fails in Safari.
So I've tested the following successful solutions:
- Setup dummy output by the help of Soundflower (YouTube):After that open System Settings and at the bottom of the Privacy & Security menu allow the usage of Soundflower and restart.
brew install Caskroom/cask/soundflower
- 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 and availability 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 Mac OS. 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.
Setup VoodooHDA and Make the Audio Available within Spice
A good clue how to install VoodooHDA on Mac OS 13 Venture is provide by Yahgoo at GitHub: Install VoodooHDA for Big Sur and Monterey. Here are the exact steps that I've performed.
0. First we will install install the latest built version (currently 2.9.2) provided within the Chris1111's repository: VoodooHDA OC. This is the easiest way to get VoodooHDA's preferences pane operational. The repository is little bit outdated but the PrefPane is not changed since 2018. At all this step is optional.
Download the file VoodooHDA OC.dmg.zip. Then run the contained package. You will need to open System Settings and at the bottom of the Privacy & Security menu allow the usage of VoodooHDA OC.dmg. After that go back to the file and run the package again. Follow the video guide provided by the author. Note you may need interact again with System Settings > Privacy & Security.
1. Reboot the system and within OpenCore's Picker choice Recovery mode.
2. Then disable Disable System Integrity Protection Temporarily otherwise later when we need to use kmutil
you will expire the error "Bad code signature". One you are in the recovery mode, Launch Terminal from the Utilities menu (from the top bar). and execute the following commands.
csrutil clear
csrutil disable
csrutil authenticated-root disable
reboot
3. After the reboot use MountEFI or mount EFI manually as it is shown below. Use diskutil list
to find which is your EFI device – in my case it is disk0s1
.
sudo mkdir -p /Volumes/efi
sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/efi
4. Then use the file explorer and navigate to the EFI/OC
directory.
5. Use the OpenCore Configurator app and open the file EFI/OC/config.plist
. You will need to open System Settings and at the bottom of the Privacy & Security menu allow the usage of OpenCore Configurator.
6. Within the OpenCore Configurator navigate to the NVRAM section and find the entry csr-active-config
. Make sure its value is 0x0285
or 000285
. (My original value was 260F and to be honest haven't tried the following steps without changing it.) Save the file and close the configurator application.
7. Download VoodooHDA. At the time I'm writing the article the latest version is 3.0.1.
8. Open a terminal window and execute the following commands.
sudo cp -R ~/Downloads/VoodooHDA.kext /Volumes/efi/EFI/OC/Kexts
sudo cp -R ~/Downloads/VoodooHDA.kext /Library/Extensions
9. Run the following command.
sudo kmutil load -p /Library/Extensions/voodooHDA.kext
Then: 1) Go to System Settings and at the bottom of the Privacy & Security menu allow the usage of VoodooHDA. 2) Restart the Mac OS.
10. That's it. After the reboot the sound controller should be available:
- Check System Settings > Sound, and System Information > Audio.
- Check the sound via a Spice connection.
Download Links
- RuTracker.org: Mac OS Ventura 13.0 Beta 8 [ISO] [Intel/Apple]
- Corpnewt at GitHub: MountEFI
- Thenickdude at GitHub: KVM OpenCore
- Softpedia: Hackintool (mac) download
- Mackie 100 projects: OpenCore Configurator
- Source Forge: VoodooHDA
- Chris1111 at GitHub: VoodooHDA‑2.9.2‑Clover | VoodooHDA-OpenCore > Download
- InstanelyMac: VoodooHDA 3.0.1 Discussion
Mac OS usage references:
- Ask Different: Does Mac OS have equivalent command line tools like
lshw
orlspci
? - Sickcodes at GitHub: OSX-optimizer (i.e. Skip the GUI login screen…)
- The Mac Admin: Mounting the EFI Boot Partition on Mac OS X
- Rocket Yard: How to make your drive icons show up in Mac OS
Misc References
- Another useful guide provided by Austin's Nerdy Things:
- Nicholas Sherlock: My Mac OS Monterey / Proxmox setup
- Mac Ports: Quick start | spice-server
- Unix and Linux: Long line wrapping in Nano