OS X-KVM: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM

Re:OS X-KVM: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM by stuaxo on Friday December 03, 2021 @06:09AM (#29428709)

Is there some info on virtio GPU for OSX development somewhere ?

I knew virtio support was happening but hadn't seen any info on the GPU bit.

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Re:OS X-KVM: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM by luzeal on Friday December 03, 2021 @08:22AM (#29429699)

The port I had in mind is this one [1], and the use case is to make it possible to run 3D accelerated Linux guests on macOS hosts. I may have wrongly believed that it would be useful for macOS guests.

Besides, it is correct that whatever happens on the driver side of things, Apple will have to approve it first (as the other reply pointed out)

[1] https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-02/msg0423...

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Re:OS X-KVM: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM by my123 on Friday December 03, 2021 @08:50AM (#29429969)

macOS guests use Apple’s own ParavirtualizedGraphics framework, which comes with none of the downsides of virtio-gpu. It pipes through serialised Metal at native performance.

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Re:OS X-KVM: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM by AshamedCaptain on Friday December 03, 2021 @07:29AM (#29429244)

I'm quite sure virtio-gpu for OS X will _never_ happen unless Apple approves of it. 3D drivers are like the most closed things in OS X.

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