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foxlet / macOS-Simple-KVM

Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.
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4 hours for installation #187

Open stoiximan opened 4 years ago

stoiximan commented 4 years ago

Followed steps correctly but 4 hours for installation?How to speed it up?

Twin-Flame commented 4 years ago

Hi @stoiximan What's your hardware configuration?

I ran this on a 2015 core i7 months ago and it took like an Hour & 1/2. Currently I'm testing ways to speed it up, including raid0 SSDs. Someday in the future we'd like to explore developing Paravirt drivers.

The EFI firmware 'Clover'may be mostly responsible, As it handles all kinds of Errors during the install & bootup. You will see it printing logs & KExt (kernel module) problems to Mac's dmesg. Everytime it detects something to seems to take time? 😕

As it Clover was designed to run on real baremetal, it's defaults may not be optimal. It may be possible to reconfigure Clover for a simpler baseline?

P.S. if you fork this I'd love to contribute!

sayem314 commented 4 years ago

I guess it depends on your network speed since it downloads around 8GB while installing. For me, it took 25 minutes in total from step 1 to boot into OS on a 10GbE connection.

stoiximan commented 4 years ago

Ok i think it is my internet speed didnt know that it was downloading at the same time it was installing.Thanks for the quick replies

Twin-Flame commented 4 years ago

Ok. That does explain a lot! I'm on a 500Mbps business net.

We could explore Squid caching? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_(software)

sayem314 commented 4 years ago

The download data comes from apple servers, you can't use caching here. Also download probably happen in smaller chunks.

g-h-97 commented 4 years ago

what about the offline macos installer, i guess it would be a huge time saver; btw any idea whether that will help or not ?

sayem314 commented 4 years ago

@xradiation Offline installer can be made, in fact I have tested this but we need to store it on the server and create another script to handle automation of this process. The offline download is 8.4GB including BaseSystem, If @foxlet is not willing to do it, I can do it if you guys can donate hosting costs :)

g-h-97 commented 4 years ago

hi @sayem314 ; i just tested an offline installation and i can confirm that it's way faster (edit : it took 15 minutes) and more stable than the online apple servers one, or at least in my case. sounds good for me however i guess the user base isn't large enough to cover all the costs as of now, so it depends on that.

sayem314 commented 4 years ago

Yes @xradiation, offline installation is a really fast and smooth experience as well. and about offline KVM-image hosting, I will try to squeeze one of my servers and try to host if I can and in the meantime let's see what @foxlet has to say about this.

g-h-97 commented 4 years ago

alright @sayem314 in case you managed to get it done, keep us in touch man.

sayem314 commented 4 years ago

sure thing @xradiation

lattice0 commented 4 years ago

Hi @sayem314, I think this method of downloading from apple servers should is the ideal method because we don't have to trust anyone. Hope @foxlet continue to maintain the 'download from apple servers' method :)

pikootkoh commented 4 years ago

hi @sayem314 ; i just tested an offline installation and i can confirm that it's way faster (edit : it took 15 minutes) and more stable than the online apple servers one, or at least in my case. sounds good for me however i guess the user base isn't large enough to cover all the costs as of now, so it depends on that.

Hi, may I know how to install offline. I have slow internet here and i prefer to download the files beforehand for reliable installation.

I’m trying to install High Sierra and it keeps saying “The recovery server could not be contacted”

FcoMarcosMAbreu commented 4 years ago

After startup the instalation for some minutes, the entire vm stops and I'd can't finish the instalation.

sdq99 commented 4 years ago

Hi, @xradiation

i just tested an offline installation and i can confirm that it's way faster (edit : it took 15 minutes) and more stable than the online apple servers one, or at least in my case. sounds good for me however i guess the user base isn't large enough to cover all the costs as of now, so it depends on that.

Can you please share any reference or a quick guid to do this. bcoz installing from internet to download around 8GB file is hard for me. and if in any case installation goes wrong, I will have to do same again and again. So it will be very helpfull for me and all those who have not enough internet connection. or any source to download iso/dmg/img file once and boot it up when we need any fresh installation like we do for Linux?

ghost commented 2 years ago

@xradiation Offline installer can be made, in fact I have tested this but we need to store it on the server and create another script to handle automation of this process. The offline download is 8.4GB including BaseSystem, If @foxlet is not willing to do it, I can do it if you guys can donate hosting costs :)

hi @sayem314 ; i just tested an offline installation and i can confirm that it's way faster (edit : it took 15 minutes) and more stable than the online apple servers one, or at least in my case. sounds good for me however i guess the user base isn't large enough to cover all the costs as of now, so it depends on that.

Im facing this issue too. Could you please spill the tea and tell us how to achieve this?

AlexLearnsToCode commented 2 years ago

Any progress everybody?

notAperson535 commented 2 years ago

@AlexLearnsToCode @FcoMarcosMAbreu @ilivss @sayem314 @stoiximan @sdq99 You can download or make a macOS ISO file from online, and just rename it to BaseSystem.img like this

mv ISO_NAME.iso BaseSystem.dmg

I just gave the same answer to someone else here #542

sudo-nick16 commented 2 years ago

@notAperson535 where did you download the macOS ISO file from? It'd be helpful if you shared any sources.

notAperson535 commented 2 years ago

@notAperson535 where did you download the macOS ISO file from? It'd be helpful if you shared any sources.

@sudo-nick16 I usually just look online. You could also search up "How to install macOS in VirtualBox" and find download links there