How to boot Server, into Monterey?

[nickg]

Please could someone help me? I am new to Proxmox. I am trying to install, Monterey.
What I would like is that the machine boots directly into Monterey.

I have installed, 7.2.3, & Monterey, this runs, I have following the instructions, https://www.nicksherlock.com/2021/10/installing-macos-12-monterey-on-proxmox-7/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBAPscDD30M

How do it I get Monterey to boot directly on the host? From the web interface, in Console, it runs. I have configured, Datacenter, pve, 100 (Monterey), options, Start at boot, Yes.

Screen shoots attached.

My machine is
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6GHz
Western Digital Black SN750 NVMe 500GB SSD,
Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB DDR4 3200Mhz PC-25600 CL16,
Gigabyte B450 AORUS M
Asrock Phantom Gaming D Radeon RX570 8G OC GDDR5

Many thanks for the support.

 

[Dunuin]

Do I understand you correct that you want to use your keyboard+mouse+display attached to your PVE host as input/output for your Monterey VM?

In that case you either need to passthrough your mouse+keyboard+gpu into that VM or you would need to install a desktop environment on your PVE host and then use some remote desktop protocol like SPICE or VNC.

 

[nickg]

Hi Danubian, thanks. I've got the keyboard and mouse working.
I've made a mistake with my terminology, I said host, that wrong, I want Monterey to boot up directly on the server, and use the server as normal Mac. With the hardware I have, that not possible, so I have to use Proxmox. thanks for the help, sorry for my rookie mistake.

 

[nickg]

bump, please help!!

 

[nickg]

nobody? thanks for the help in advance.

 

[leesteken]

Start at boot should start the VM whenever Proxmox starts. You already do USB passthrough of a keyboard and mouse, right? Do you also PCIe passthrough a GPU? Do you have a GPU that is supported by Monterey? Please explain again what the problem is.

 

[noglider]

If I understand you correctly, you want to run MacOS directly on your machine. Apple has gone through great pains to make this impossible. They want you to buy their hardware to get the benefits of their operating system. The people at proxmox and other virtualization platforms have gone through great pains to emulate hardware so that software (macos in this case) cannot know that the hardware is not what it appears to be. It is possible to run MacOS on some non-Apple hardware, but to do so, you need to be an expert and spend a lot of time maintaining it. Proxmox and similar platforms are your best bets. They take the work out of it. If you very much want to run MacOS natively, buy an Apple computer. If you want to save money on hardware and use your existing hardware, you have a working system now, and messing with it will not be satisfying.

 

[toomanylogins]

You can use promox as your desktop machine for any vm it doesnt matter win/mac/linux. You need 2 video cards and a KVM. Then passthrough one video card to the VM the other is for the host. You then use the kvm to switch between the two. Aslo need to pass through the usb ports to the 2 sets of kvm cables. On can do it with one video card but you then need a notebook to manage the host as Nick Sherlock mentions. Set the boot to yes with a delay and once the host boots you can switch with the kvm.