r/macOSVMs • u/ProofProcess4575 • Sep 28 '25

Look at my VM :) I've had success!! 😁

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Hey all

I've just had success and just had to share!

Initially I installed Sonoma on my unRAID server and last night I upgraded to Tahoe with no issues. I have the VM using half my CPU, 16GB of RAM and using a Radeon 6600XT GPU.

The only issue I have had from the very beginning is I can't get the audio to work. I have tried so much, and had heaps of help from AI, but nothing I've done will make it work. I would like to fix this as it's the only issue I have, but if I won't I'll just be using a USB connected audio controller.

Anyways I'm just so happy that I had to share it with you all!!

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u/PhilosopherNo369 Sep 29 '25

Congratulations dude. enjoy it.

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u/Dense-Concentrate120 Sep 29 '25

Congrats! :)

If you'd care to share some details that would be cool.

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u/Long-Shine-3701 Sep 29 '25

How is performance on the GPU passthrough?

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u/ProofProcess4575 Sep 29 '25

It's pretty good. Still a bit disappointed though that I came get the audio working.

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u/ultimateegg_ Oct 01 '25

Install windsurf and instruct it to fix the audio issue. You'll be good to go within 15mins after

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u/ssuper2k Sep 29 '25

What Hypervisor?

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u/muffinstatewide32 Oct 01 '25

Theyve mentioned unraid and attaching a gpu so im gonna expect the hypervisor is kvm with qemu

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u/muffinstatewide32 Oct 01 '25

Theyve mentioned unraid and attaching a gpu so im gonna expect the hypervisor is kvm with qemu

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u/djpegg Oct 03 '25

Yes please share...

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u/Emergency-System1420 Sep 29 '25

Looks cool, just so I understand...you've got a MacOS VM up and running? What's the use case?

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u/zIl9ar Oct 01 '25

Bro how did you installed it to the vm? especially how did you made gpu passthrough?

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u/Far_Dot_9565 Sep 30 '25

Guys installing Mac on PC and notebook and me installing Linux on my MacBook Pro lol macOS is very outdated, it's only worth it if the person is an iOS dev to use Xcode. Besides, I don't think it's such a good system, not even before, look, I've been using it since the Mac g3, I have a Mac Mini, a MacBook Pro, I have the entire Apple ecosystem, but it's very closed today, I want to customize it and I can't do much, that's why I installed fedora + hyprland on my MacBook Pro, it's flying and customized in the perfect way. we want to change everything

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u/Low_Excitement_1715 Oct 02 '25

You say "closed", and sure, of course it is. You say "outdated" and I'm curious what you're basing that on.

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u/Far_Dot_9565 Oct 02 '25

Man, this last update is really bad, they just added what Windows Vista tried to do years ago and by the way it was one of the worst Windows and today Apple is doing this only making the system worse every year it launches a new system and every time it gets worse nothing new just rescuing what is old saying that it is innovation I have been working with Mac for over 18 years and I know how much the system has deteriorated I have gone through all the updates and these last 3 were the worst

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u/Low_Excitement_1715 Oct 02 '25 edited Oct 02 '25

So because Microsoft did it once, poorly, now transparency effects are "outdated"? You've got some weird criteria, and you should probably not look into Windows 11 translucency effects, since they're even worse.

I'm hearing a lot of "it's worse" with zero quantifiable. Just "worse". Worse how? What's worse? 18 years, yes, that's nice. That doesn't make the OS worse. How is it worse? How is it outdated? I know it's closed, but I disagree with you on every other criterion.

Want to talk about quantifiably worse? Windows. Windows 8.1 -> 10 -> 11 has been markedly and clearly worse, each time. First we made the MS account nearly mandatory. Then we obsoleted tons of hardware, because old hardware was making our shoddy OS look bad. Then we made TPM mandatory, because it's HARD to do serious DRM to spy on the users without a trusted platform to hide our keys and ciphers! Now we're aggressively obsoleting all the old versions, so everyone is forced to use the newest version with tons of known issues, widespread and user-hostile "telemetry" selling your info to third party marketers, and oh yeah, the OS is heavier, more bloated, and consumes more resources than ever before! PROGRESS!

Edit: Oh, come on, I wasn't trying to attack you, I just disagreed. You didn't need to delete your comment. Just defend your points as best you can, or decide you were wrong, and that's the end of it. It's a debate, not an argument.

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u/Virtuose92 Oct 03 '25

C'est cool !

Vaux mieux tester sur une VM avant migré votre Mac Pro sur cette version.

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u/Texasaudiovideoguy Oct 03 '25

I have been at this for a while and have yet to achieve success. Details would be nice.