Hi everyone,
I recently added a Mac Mini 2018 machine as a node to my cluster. I had a previous macOS VM running on a non-Mac node, and now that I've moved it, I would ideally like to take maximum benefit of passing through its natively supported hardware. However, I haven't been very successful, mostly due to this unusual use case. Posting here in the hope that someone else has done the same and can point me in the right direction.
I have gone through full steps wrt. ensuring kernel support for the T2-based machine. It is, for example, running a T2-compliant kernel from https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/pve-edge-kernel-t2 and I also exported and installed firmwares from the previous macOS bare metal install
As a first step, I'd like to passthrough the GPU, in order to get best-possible performance when working on the machine through VNC. Config:
I've also had various tries to patching OpenCore's config to enable detection of the card. For example:
... However despite various tries I didn't get close to having the iGPU detected in the macOS VM.
It would also be nice to enable Bluetooth, in the hope that perhaps even Airdrop might be functional (seems a bit ambitious!). However, passing through any of the network adapters removes Ethernet as well.
In any case, this is a general call for help!
Thanks in advance!
I recently added a Mac Mini 2018 machine as a node to my cluster. I had a previous macOS VM running on a non-Mac node, and now that I've moved it, I would ideally like to take maximum benefit of passing through its natively supported hardware. However, I haven't been very successful, mostly due to this unusual use case. Posting here in the hope that someone else has done the same and can point me in the right direction.
I have gone through full steps wrt. ensuring kernel support for the T2-based machine. It is, for example, running a T2-compliant kernel from https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/pve-edge-kernel-t2 and I also exported and installed firmwares from the previous macOS bare metal install
As a first step, I'd like to passthrough the GPU, in order to get best-possible performance when working on the machine through VNC. Config:
Code:
agent: 1
args: -device isa-applesmc,osk="ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc" -smbios type=2 -device usb-kbd,bus=ehci.0,port=2 -device usb-mouse,bus=ehci.0,port=3 -cpu host,kvm=on,vendor=GenuineIntel,+kvm_pv_unhalt,+kvm_pv_eoi,+hypervisor,+invtsc
autostart: 0
balloon: 0
bios: ovmf
boot: order=virtio0
cores: 4
cpu: host
cpuunits: 100
efidisk0: local-lvm:vm-101-disk-0,size=128K
hostpci0: 0000:00:02,pcie=1,x-vga=1
hotplug: disk,network,usb
machine: q35
memory: 6144
meta: creation-qemu=9.0.2,ctime=1725038254
name: macOS
net0: virtio=BC:24:11:6F:B0:E6,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 1
onboot: 1
ostype: other
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=fdeb9a02-59fd-410f-846a-44d75d378272
sockets: 1
startup: order=10
tablet: 1
tags: desktop;macos
vcpus: 4
vga: none
virtio0: local-lvm:vm-101-disk-1,cache=none,discard=on,size=64G
vmgenid: eeb527c2-5f08-414a-aff8-393b4d808163I've also had various tries to patching OpenCore's config to enable detection of the card. For example:
Code:
<key>DeviceProperties</key>
<dict>
<key>Add</key>
<dict>
<key>PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)</key>
<dict>
<key>device-id</key>
<data>kj4AAA==</data>
<key>AAPL,ig-platform-id</key>
<data>BwCbPg==</data>
<key>framebuffer-patch-enable</key>
<data>AQAAAA==</data>
<key>framebuffer-stolenmem</key>
<data>AAAwAQ==</data>
</dict>
</dict>
</dict>... However despite various tries I didn't get close to having the iGPU detected in the macOS VM.
It would also be nice to enable Bluetooth, in the hope that perhaps even Airdrop might be functional (seems a bit ambitious!). However, passing through any of the network adapters removes Ethernet as well.
In any case, this is a general call for help!
Thanks in advance!
