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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Hackintosh Thread 2015 Part 2 - Change is a good thing.
 
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Smashing Link
Jul 8, 2003

I'll keep chucking bombs at you til you fall off that ledge!
Grimey Drawer

Rollie Fingers posted:

I sold my iMac after successfully dabbling with Mac OS X virtualisation in KVM/Qemu with PCIe passthrough.

I only had the iMac for browsing the internet in my living room, and I prefer browsing on my Mac anyway because of the font rendering + magic trackpad 2. I thought my spare PC could be a good candidate to replace the mac since I have somewhere to hide it.

You’ll obviously need a Mac compatible second GPU to passthrough and I’d say the other important thing is having a motherboard that isn’t stingy with IOMMU groups so passing through USB controllers and sound becomes painless.

The performance is great. The pc is far more powerful than my iMac so it’s basically like using a Mac Pro. I’ve never used a traditional hackintosh before, but this virtual machine has no issues with updates or needing random kexts to keep it functioning.

I have an embarrassingly overbuilt Unraid rig that has given me a very good mac VM experience. Two different GPUs have worked well. Couldn't get USB controller passthrough to work so I ended up getting a cheap PCIe USB card but that's been the only issue.

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Smashing Link
Jul 8, 2003

I'll keep chucking bombs at you til you fall off that ledge!
Grimey Drawer

Perplx posted:

I had no problem passing all my onboard USB ports to the vm, I added a USB card so I could still manage the host. I had to use the acs patch to fix my iommu groups so I would recommend finding a board that doesn’t need the patch.

The problem with Unraid is that the OS is running off a USB stick and I couldn't split off any ports (as far as I could tell) as separate IOMMU groups. But I am a newbie. Also I'm running an older board so that could be part of it. a

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Hackintosh Thread 2015 Part 2 - Change is a good thing.