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            <h1>Running a MacOS 14 Sonoma VM in ProxMox VE</h1>
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          <p>💡 <em>NOTE: MacOS higher than version 12 requires a CPU with AVX2 instruction support</em></p>

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	<li>Download a MacOS Sonoma .iso <a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=MacOS%20collection&amp;and[]=mediatype%3A%22software%22" target="_blank">Download</a> OR create your own <a href="https://youtu.be/JFMvUpdCMwo" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/JFMvUpdCMwo</a></li>
	<li>Download KVM OpenCore bootloader <a href="https://github.com/thenickdude/KVM-Opencore/releases" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Extract the downloaded KVM OpenCore bootloader .gz file</li>
	<li>Upload the Sonoma and KVM OpenCore .iso files to the Proxmox ISO library</li>
	<li>Log into the ProxMox web UI</li>
	<li>Right click the ProxMox node name &gt; Create VM</li>
	<li>Type MacOSSonoma in the name field, set the VM ID to 1400 (unless 1400 is in use) &gt; Next</li>
	<li>On the OS tab, set the Type field to Other and select the KVM OpenCore .iso in the ISO Image field &gt; Next</li>
	<li>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 &gt; Next</li>
	<li>On the Hard Disk tab, set the Bus/Device field to VirtIO Block, Disk size field to 64, Cache field to Write back (unsafe) &gt; Next</li>
	<li>On the CPU tab, set Cores field to 4, Type field to host &gt; Next</li>
	<li>On the Memory tab, set the Memory to 4096 &gt; Next</li>
	<li>On the Network tab, set the Model field to VMware vmxnet3 &gt; Next</li>
	<li>Verify the summary and click Finish</li>
	<li>Click the MacOSSonoma VM &gt; Select Hardware from the left sub-navigation menu</li>
	<li>Click Add &gt; CD/DVD Drive</li>
	<li>Select the MacOS Sonoma .iso downloaded earlier &gt; Click Create</li>
	<li>Select the MacOSSonoma VM &gt; Options &gt; Boot Order</li>
	<li>Set the KVM OpenCore disk as the first boot option &gt; Click OK</li>
	<li>Right click the ProxMox node name &gt; Console</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in the terminal
	<div class="codeBlock"># edit the VM conf file, change 1400 to the VM ID for the MacOSSonoma VM<br />
	nano /etc/pve/qemu-server/1400.conf</div>
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	<li>If running on an Intel CPU, add the following line to the bottom of the .conf file:
	<p class="masked">args: -device isa-applesmc,osk=&quot;ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc&quot; -smbios type=2 -device qemu-xhci -device usb-kbd -device usb-tablet -global nec-usb-xhci.msi=off -global ICH9-LPC.acpi-pci-hotplug-with-bridge-support=off -cpu host,vendor=GenuineIntel,+invtsc,+hypervisor,kvm=on,vmware-cpuid-freq=on</p>
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	<li>If running on an AMD CPU, add the following line to the bottom of the .conf file:
	<p class="masked">args: -device isa-applesmc,osk=&quot;ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc&quot; -smbios type=2 -device qemu-xhci -device usb-kbd -device usb-tablet -global nec-usb-xhci.msi=off -global ICH9-LPC.acpi-pci-hotplug-with-bridge-support=off -cpu Haswell-noTSX,vendor=GenuineIntel,+invtsc,+hypervisor,kvm=on,vmware-cpuid-freq=on</p>
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	<li>Press CTRL+W and search for ,media=cdrom</li>
	<li>Delete the ,media=cdrom from the two attached .iso files (KVM OpenCore and Sonoma) and add cache=unsafe</li>
	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to the conf file</li>
	<li>Back in the Proxmox web UI, right click the MacOSSonoma VM in the left navigation pane &gt; Start</li>
	<li>Click console in the left sub-navigation menu</li>
	<li>At the OpenCore menu, select UEFI Shell &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Type the following in the UEFI shell:
	<div class="codeBlock CMD"># change to the Sonoma.iso, the disk number may be different for you<br />
	fs0:<br />
	# launch the MacOS installer<br />
	System\Library\CoreServices\boot.efi</div>
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	<li>After a long initialization sequence the MAC OS Setup should start</li>
	<li>Select Disk Utility</li>
	<li>Select the VIRTIO Block Media &gt; Click Erase</li>
	<li>Name the drive MacOS &gt; Set the Format to APFS &gt; Click Erase</li>
	<li>Click Done &gt; Close Disk Utility</li>
	<li>Click Install macOS Sonoma</li>
	<li>Click Continue &gt; Click Agree &gt; Click Agree again</li>
	<li>Select the MacOS disk &gt; Click Install</li>
	<li>Wait while Mac OS installs files, the VM will reboot several times</li>
	<li>Select your Country or Region &gt; Click Continue</li>
	<li>Confirm your languages and keyboard layout &gt; Click Continue</li>
	<li>Click Not Now on the Accessibility screen</li>
	<li>Click Continue on the Data &amp; Privacy screen</li>
	<li>Select Not Now on the Migration Assistant screen</li>
	<li>Select Set Up Later and then Skip on the Apple ID screen</li>
	<li>Click Agree &gt; Agree again</li>
	<li>Enter a name, user name, password &gt; Click Continue</li>
	<li>Click Continue &gt; Select Use or Don&#39;t Use for Location Services</li>
	<li>Pick a timezone &gt; Click Continue</li>
	<li>Uncheck Share Mac Analytics with Apple &gt; Click Continue</li>
	<li>Click Set Up Later on the Screen Time screen</li>
	<li>Pick a theme &gt; Click Continue</li>
	<li>Welcome to MacOS 14 Sonoma</li>
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<h2>Configuring Booting Without OpenCore Mounted</h2>

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	<li>Log into the MacOSSonoma VM</li>
	<li>Launch a web browser and download the KVM OpenCore EFI folder <a href="https://github.com/thenickdude/KVM-Opencore/releases" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Download MountEFI from GitHub <a href="https://github.com/corpnewt/MountEFI" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Start LaunchPad from the dock</li>
	<li>Search terminal &gt; Click Terminal to launch it</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in the terminal window
	<div class="codeBlock CMD">cd ~/Downloads/MountEFI<br />
	chmod +x MountEFI.command<br />
	./MountEFI.command</div>
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	<li>Enter the number that corresponds to the MacOS drive created during the installation &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Open a Finder window</li>
	<li>Navigate to the mounted EFI location</li>
	<li>If an existing EFI folder exists, rename the it to EFI.orig</li>
	<li>Copy the KVM OpenCoreEFI folder downloaded earlier to the mounted EFI partition</li>
	<li>Once the EFI folder is copied, shutdown the VM</li>
	<li>Click the MacOSSonoma VM &gt; Select Hardware from the left sub-navigation menu</li>
	<li>Click the OpenCore Hard Disk to select it &gt; Click Detach</li>
	<li>Click the detached OpenCore Hard Disk to select it again &gt; Click Remove</li>
	<li>Right click the MacOSSonoma VM in the left navigation pane &gt; Start</li>
	<li>Click console in the left sub-navigation menu to verify the VM still boots into Sonoma without the OpenCore disc image mounted</li>
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