Running a MacOS 15 Sequoia VM in Proxmox VE

#MacOS #Sequoia #Proxmox #VirtualMachine

Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0944.html

💡 NOTE: MacOS higher than version 12 requires a CPU with AVX2 instruction support      01. Download a MacOS Sequoia .iso  https://archive.org/search.php?query=MacOS%2015&and[]=mediatype%3A%22software%22 OR create your own  https://youtu.be/JFMvUpdCMwo    02. Download KVM OpenCore bootloader  https://github.com/thenickdude/KVM-Opencore/releases    03. Extract the downloaded KVM OpenCore bootloader .gz file    04. Upload the Sequoia and KVM OpenCore .iso files to the Proxmox ISO library    05. Log into the ProxMox web UI    06. Right click the ProxMox node name ≫ Create VM    07. Type MacOSSequoia in the name field, set the VM ID to 1500 (unless 1500 is in use) ≫ Next    08. On the OS tab, set the Type field to Other and select the KVM OpenCore .iso in the ISO Image field ≫ Next    09. On the System tab, set the Graphic card field to VMware compatible, BIOS field to OVMF (UEFI), Uncheck the Pre-Enroll Keys checkbox, Check the Add EFI Disk checkbox, Machine field to q35 and the SCSI Controller to VirtIO SCSI ≫ Next    10. On the Hard Disk tab, set the Bus/Device field to VirtIO Block, Disk size field to 64, Cache field to Write back (unsafe) ≫ Next    11. On the CPU tab, set Cores field to 4, Type field to host ≫ Next    12. On the Memory tab, set the Memory to 8192 or more ≫ Next    13. On the Network tab, set the Model field to VMware vmxnet3 ≫ Next    14. Verify the summary and click Finish    15. Click the MacOSSequoia VM ≫ Select Hardware from the left sub-navigation menu    16. Click Add ≫ CD/DVD Drive    17. Select the MacOS Sequoia .iso downloaded earlier ≫ Click Add    18. Right click the Proxmox node name ≫ Console    19. Run the following commands in the terminal          # edit the VM conf file, change 1500 to the VM ID for the MacOSSequoia VM          nano /etc/pve/qemu-server/1500.conf    20. If running on an Intel CPU, add the following line to the bottom of the .conf file:          FULL STEPS ON GITHUB LINK ABOVE    21. If running on an AMD CPU, add the following line to the bottom of the .conf file:          FULL STEPS ON GITHUB LINK ABOVE    22. Press CTRL+W and search for ,media=cdrom    23. Delete the ,media=cdrom from the two attached .iso files (KVM OpenCore and Sequoia) and add cache=unsafe    24. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to the conf file    25. Back in the Proxmox web UI, right click the MacOSSequoia VM in the left navigation pane ≫ Start    26. Click console in the left sub-navigation menu    27. At the OpenCore menu press Enter to start the MacOS installer    28. If Install MacOS isn't an option select UEFI Shell ≫ Press Enter    29. Type the following in the UEFI shell:          # change to the Sequoia.iso, the disk number may be different for you          fs0:          # launch the MacOS installer          System\Library\CoreServices\boot.efi    30. After a long initialization sequence the MAC OS Setup should start    31. Select Disk Utility    32. Select the VIRTIO Block Media ≫ Click Erase    33. Name the drive MacOS ≫ Set the Format to APFS ≫ Click Erase    34. Click Done ≫ Close Disk Utility    35. Click Install macOS Sequoia    36. Click Continue ≫ Click Agree ≫ Click Agree again    37. Select the MacOS disk ≫ Click Install    38. Wait while Mac OS installs files, the VM will reboot several times    39. Select your Country or Region ≫ Click Continue    40. Confirm your languages and keyboard layout ≫ Click Continue    41. Click Not Now on the Accessibility screen    42. Click Continue on the Data & Privacy screen    43. Select Not Now on the Migration Assistant screen    44. Select Set Up Later and then Skip on the Apple ID screen    45. Click Agree on the Terms and Conditions screen ≫ Agree again    46. Enter a name, user name, password ≫ Click Continue    47. Click Continue ≫ Select Use or Don't Use for Location Services    48. Pick a timezone ≫ Click Continue    49. Uncheck Share Mac Analytics with Apple ≫ Click Continue    50. Click Set Up Later on the Screen Time screen    51. Pick a theme ≫ Click Continue    52. Welcome to MacOS 15 Sequoia   Configuring Booting Without OpenCore Mounted    01. Log into the MacOSSequoia VM    02. Launch a web browser and download the KVM OpenCore EFI folder  https://github.com/thenickdude/KVM-Opencore/releases    03. Download MountEFI from GitHub  https://github.com/corpnewt/MountEFI    04. Start LaunchPad from the dock    05. Search terminal ≫ Click Terminal to launch it    06. Run the following commands in the terminal window          cd ~/Downloads/MountEFI-update          chmod +x MountEFI.command          ./MountEFI.command

....Full steps can be found on GitHub [link at the top]

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