Mojave @ 5950x: How to edit VM conf file?

[davorr]

Hi Folks

I wanna install Mac OS Mojave on my 5950x Ryzen.
I'm following this tutorial: https://www.nicksherlock.com/2018/06/installing-macos-mojave-on-proxmox/

I made everything up to this part:

Edit /etc/pve/qemu-server/YOUR-VM-ID-HERE.conf (with nano or vim). Add this line, being sure to substitute the OSK you extracted earlier into the right place

Can somebody pls elaborate? How to get into Nano or Vim?

Thanks

 

[Dunuin]

nano /etc/pve/qemu-server/YOUR-VM-ID-HERE.conf, do your edits and then close with CTRL+X.

 

[davorr]

Thanks!
I am such a newbie. I don't even understand where to type that?
I can boot Proxmox VE or access that machine via browser from another machine. But don't know WHERE to type in the nano commands.
Thanks in advance for your patience.

 

[Dunuin]

Thanks!
I am such a newbie. I don't even understand where to type that?
I can boot Proxmox VE or access that machine via browser from another machine. But don't know WHERE to type in the nano commands.
Thanks in advance for your patience.

At your hosts/nodes console/shell using the webui, ssh or physical keyboard.

 

[davorr]

Thanks! I have found it!

For the other newbies like me:

1. Start a web browser on your other machine and find your Proxmox via "https://192.168... etc."
2. In the Proxmox choose "home" on the left in the menu
3. Press "Shall" button in the right upper corner and start the console.
4. Than you can copy paste the command Mr. Dunuin wrote above and press ENTER on your keyboard
5. When editing you will have to use CTRL on your keyboard. e.g CTRL+O will save your changes.

First I didn't know what is the VM name, so I put the description instead of the name in the command line. There was no error message. But the file was empty, which was suspect to me. Then I realized I created entirely new file, which doesnt have anything to do with my VM.
Now I know, the vm-name needed here is actually that NUMBER with 3 digits! So, it is gonna probably look something like this:

nano /etc/pve/qemu-server/100.conf

 

[davorr]

Now I am struggling with this:

Installing the fixed OVMF​

Download the prebuilt pve-edk2-firmware_1.20190312-1_all.deb (Proxmox 5) or pve-edk2-firmware_2.202002-1_all.deb (Proxmox 6.1) if you didn’t build it yourself in the previous step. Upload it to Proxmox somewhere and run these commands in that directory to install it:

I've downloaded the .deb for Proxmox 6.1.
Btw. I have the version 7.1-7 of Proxmox VE installed.
I hope that .deb is gonna work as well. If not, someone let me know, please.

The manual says "Upload it to Proxmox somewhere".
My Proxmox doesn't accept .deb files. It accepts ISO files. I really don't know where to upload
Why didn't he say more specifically where to upload .deb?



UPDATE

I've read somewehere that Proxmox won't accept other extensions. So, I have to use "scp" to upload it.
I tried this on my other machine (mac) in terminal:

scp pve-edk2-firmware_2.202002-1_all.deb remote_root@192.168.1.211:8006/etc/pve/qemu-server/

It asked for password. After I put it, it says: "Permission denied, please try again."

Gonna try it with with USB drive.





UPDATE

I copied the .deb file on an external USB drive and connected it to my proxmox machine.
Now I am trying to access it from there via shell.

When I type lsblk to list all the drives, I get this:

root@home:~# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part
└─sda2 8:2 0 465.4G 0 part
nvme1n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
├─nvme1n1p1 259:1 0 1007K 0 part
├─nvme1n1p2 259:2 0 512M 0 part
└─nvme1n1p3 259:3 0 238G 0 part
├─pve-swap 253:0 0 8G 0 lvm [SWAP]
├─pve-root 253:1 0 59.3G 0 lvm /
├─pve-data_tmeta 253:2 0 1.6G 0 lvm
│ └─pve-data-tpool 253:4 0 151.6G 0 lvm
│ ├─pve-data 253:5 0 151.6G 1 lvm
│ ├─pve-vm--144--disk--0 253:6 0 64G 0 lvm
│ └─pve-vm--144--disk--1 253:7 0 4M 0 lvm
└─pve-data_tdata 253:3 0 151.6G 0 lvm
└─pve-data-tpool 253:4 0 151.6G 0 lvm
├─pve-data 253:5 0 151.6G 1 lvm
├─pve-vm--144--disk--0 253:6 0 64G 0 lvm
└─pve-vm--144--disk--1 253:7 0 4M 0 lvm
nvme0n1 259:4 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:5 0 1007K 0 part
├─nvme0n1p2 259:6 0 512M 0 part
└─nvme0n1p3 259:7 0 1.8T 0 part
├─pve--OLD--D27995A1-swap 253:8 0 8G 0 lvm
├─pve--OLD--D27995A1-root 253:9 0 96G 0 lvm
├─pve--OLD--D27995A1-data_tmeta 253:10 0 15.8G 0 lvm
│ └─pve--OLD--D27995A1-data 253:12 0 1.7T 0 lvm
└─pve--OLD--D27995A1-data_tdata 253:11 0 1.7T 0 lvm
└─pve--OLD--D27995A1-data 253:12 0 1.7T 0 lvm

I tried to access the file with such a command but no success:

dpkg -i sda1/pve-edk2-firmware_2.202002-1_all.deb

Can somebody please help me?

 

[Dunuin]

You can't upload files other than ISOs using the webUI. So use some tools like WinSCP to upload files using SSH or download the deb directly to your host using the wget command (where you might need to install its package first). And I guess you need to build/compile your own firmware for PVE7.1 and that isn't easy if you don't even know the linux basics.
Might be easier to look for a more recent tutorial.