A Hackintosh project implementing the MacHyperVSupport package for Windows Hyper-V, built on top of the OpenCore bootloader and OCE-Build build manager.
Refer to the CHANGELOG or SemVer board for changes implemented per release version.
[!IMPORTANT] Beta versions of macOS may require the boot arg
-lilubetaall
to be set in theboot-args
section of your config.plist. This is needed to allow Lilu and all dependent plugins to load on macOS versions that are not yet officially supported.[!NOTE] Installations of OS X Tiger (10.4) to Snow Leopard (10.6) are not possible directly. It is recommended to first install a newer version of macOS and restore to the desired version using a disk image provided by Acidanthera.
You can also find other past InstallAssistant.dmg archives on Archive.org.
Supported versions below include macOS versions 10.4 to 15.0.
macOS Version | Status | Minimum version | Maximum version | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sequoia | ✅ | Supported. | (None) |
(Latest) |
Sonoma | ✅ | Supported. | (None) |
(Latest) |
Ventura | ✅ | Supported. | (None) |
(Latest) |
Monterey | ✅ | Supported. | (None) |
(Latest) |
Big Sur | ✅ | Supported. | (None) |
(Latest) |
Catalina | ✅ | Supported. | (None) |
(Latest) |
Mojave | ✅ | Supported. | (None) |
(Latest) |
High Sierra | ✅ | Supported. | (None) |
(Latest) |
Sierra | ✅ | Supported. | (None) |
(Latest) |
El Capitan | ✅ | Supported. | (None) |
(Latest) |
Yosemite | ✅ | Supported. | (None) |
(Latest) |
Mavericks | ✅ | Supported. | (None) |
(Latest) |
Mountain Lion | ✅ | Supported. | (None) |
(Latest) |
Lion | ✅ | Supported. | (None) |
(Latest) |
Snow Leopard | 🚧 | Supported. | (None) |
(Retail) |
Leopard | 🚧 | Supported. | (None) |
(Retail) |
Tiger | 🚧 | Supported. | (None) |
(Retail) |
Refer to HyperV-versions.md for a complete breakdown of macOS compatibility with Windows Client, Server, and Hyper-V versions.
If you opt to use one of the pre-built releases from this repository, you can skip to 3. Setting up Hyper-V.
To clone this repository, run the below command:
git clone https://github.com/Qonfused/OSX-Hyper-V
cd OSX-Hyper-V
This project uses OCE-Build to automatically version and build this repository's EFI.
[!IMPORTANT] To run powershell scripts, you may need to set your execution policy using:
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
To build this project's EFI, run one of the below commands at the root of the project:
# Build for macOS 10.8 and newer
.\scripts\build.ps1
# Build for macOS 10.7 and older
.\scripts\build.ps1 --legacy
# Build for macOS 10.4 - 10.5, 10.6 if running in 32-bit mode
.\scripts\build.ps1 --legacy --32-bit
[!NOTE] MacHyperVSupport requires Windows Server 2012 R2 / Windows 8.1 or higher. Windows Server 2016 is currently unsupported.
First check that you've enabled Hyper-V before proceeding.
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All
Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V
[!TIP] After building or downloading this project's EFI, you can run the
create-virtual-machine.ps1
script to quickly setup a new virtual-machine.For example, from a local build of this project:
# Use the latest version of macOS (cpu=2 cores, ram=8 GB, size=50 GB) .\dist\Scripts\create-virtual-machine.ps1 -name "My New Virtual Machine" # Use an older version of macOS (cpu=4 cores, ram=16 GB, size=128 GB) .\dist\Scripts\create-virtual-machine.ps1 -name "Catalina" -version 10.15 -cpu 4 -ram 16 -size 128
or from a downloaded release:
cd ~/Downloads/EFI-1.0.0-64-bit-DEBUG # Scripts are packaged with releases # Use the latest version of macOS (cpu=2 cores, ram=8 GB, size=50 GB) .\Scripts\create-virtual-machine.ps1 -name "My New Virtual Machine" # Use an older version of macOS (cpu=4 cores, ram=16 GB, size=128 GB) .\Scripts\create-virtual-machine.ps1 -name "Catalina" -version 10.15 -cpu 4 -ram 16 -size 128
Below outline the steps to manually create a new virtual machine for macOS:
Format a small (1GB) FAT32 disk initialized with GPT (GUID partition table) and mount it. This will serve as the boot partition for your macOS virtual machine and contain the OpenCore EFI folder.
Choose one of three ways of creating VHD/VHDX disks:
Action > New > Hard Disk
. C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Virtual Hard Disks\
.Mount
.Eject
.Action > Create VHD
. Action > Attach VHD
.Detach VHD
.New-VHD
command.
# Run this command in PowerShell as Administrator
$vhdpath = "$env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\EFI.vhdx"
$vhdsize = 1GB
$vhdpart = "GPT"
$vhdfs = "FAT32"
New-VHD -Path $vhdpath -Dynamic -SizeBytes $vhdsize |
Mount-VHD -Passthru |
Initialize-Disk -PartitionStyle $vhdpart -Confirm:$false -Passthru |
New-Partition -AssignDriveLetter -UseMaximumSize |
Format-Volume -FileSystem $vhdfs -Confirm:$false -Force
Move the EFI folder (the whole folder) to the root of the VHDX disk.
EFI/
folder at the root of your EFI VHDX disk.Create or add an installer disk with either of the below methods:
.chunklist
and .dmg
files downloaded by macrecovery to your EFI VHDX disk under a new folder named com.apple.recovery.boot
. You should be left with both an EFI/
and com.apple.recovery.boot/
folder at the root of your EFI VHDX disk.qemu-img
:
qemu-img.exe convert -f raw -O vhdx InstallMacOSX.dmg InstallMacOSX.vhdx
In the Hyper-V Manager, navigate to Action > New > Virtual Machine
.
Configure the below options while going through the wizard:
Generation 2
.4096 MB
(recommended is 8192 MB
for Big Sur and newer).Once created, right click on your new virtual-machine (under the 'Virtual Machines' section of the window), and select Settings
.
Then configure the below options under the Hardware section:
Enable Secure Boot
(disable).0
and change the location value for your main virtual hard disk to a different value (e.g. 1
or 2
). This is to ensure that the EFI disk is the first disk in the boot order.Installation of macOS should fall in line with the Installation Process section of the Dortania Guide. Some additional post-install sections are provided to facilitate with Hyper-V (or project) specifics.
There are some known limitations with the base configuration for Hyper-V:
[!NOTE] DDA is only available for Windows Server and Microsoft Hyper-V Server versions 2016 and newer. Windows Pro and Windows Enterprise users have no support for DDA with Hyper-V.
To enable iServices functionality, you can:
Contributions of any size to this project are always welcome!
Refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for instructions (and tips) on making contributions to this project.