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The repository contains three branches, stacked on top of each other: On top of the master branch (which tracks upstream, theres gls-hfsplus, containing the HFS driver in its current, fsw-based form.

At this point QEMU and KVM are mostly capable of supporting OS X (up to Sierra), and the largest portion of the effort still required lies with edk2ovmf (start with my fork on github as indicated below, and go from there).

Additionally, since Apple machines have become increasingly locked down and end-user unfriendly, I cant continue considering them for any upcoming hardware refresh (which is too bad, they used to make almost perfect Linux machines for the last 20 years).

NOTE: Installer.iso images prepared based on Sierra 10.12.4 or later will hang during boot.

However, guest images installed with 10.12.3 or earlier can successfully be upgraded, assuming the applesmc fix mentioned above is applied.

The cause for this is as of yet unknown (to me, at least).

Prerequisites.

Anything close to it in terms of freshness should likely do just fine.

To build the patched OVMF firmware blob, follow these instructions.

The result of this process is a firmware blob named OVMF.fd, which will be copied to your home directory by the last command shown above.

A binary OVMF blob built by applying my patches on top of the current edk2 master branch (as indicated by the abbreviated commit ID in the file name) is available to help speed things up, but youre strongly encouraged to build your own:).

SnowLeopard (10.6) was the last OS X version released in DVD format.

Starting with Lion (10.7), an install DVD (.iso) image may be generated on an OS X machine by following the steps below (Thanks Dick Marinus for pointing out the Yosemite-specific updates).

Using the following command line, install OS X from the boot media created earlier (Thanks Jim Burns for the Penryn hint, which is needed instead of core2duo as of Sierra).

Qemu Mac And Run

If you own a Mac and run Linux on it natively (the license-compliant use case for the application of these instructions), you can retrieve them by compiling and running SmcDumpKey.c.

A patch to make the latter work with OS X (thanks to Phil Dennis-Jordan) only became available starting with version 2.9.0.

Let me start with the obligatory disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.

We know that OS X is supported on commercial virtualization solutions such as VMWare Fusion and Parallels.

What if the hypervisor OS is different than OS X (both Fusion and Parallels both use OS X as the hypervisor OS).

Well, it appears VMWare ESXi allows running OS X guests (presumably only if the hardware is, once again, manufactured by Apple).

This is clearly an example of OS X running as guest on top of a non-OS X hypervisor, on top of Apple-manufactured hardware.

So, it is my belief that, as long as Im running a LinuxKVM hypervisor on a genuine Mac computer (which Ive personally been doing exclusively since cca.

OS X as a VM guest on top of it.

In terms of advice, all I can say is: Check with the legal andor moral authorities in your local jurisdiction before trying this at home:).

No idea yet if (and how) the new Apple filesystem (APFS) plays into this.

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