Content Caching on OSX VMs

Apple’s Content Caching is not available when running OSX in a VM.

It seems Apple is detecting if it’s running inside a VM:

$ sudo /usr/bin/AssetCacheManagerUtil activate
AssetCacheManagerUtil[] Failed to activate content caching: Error Domain=ACSMErrorDomain Code=5 "virtual machine"...

To get around this, you can patch the kernel to remove the cpuid features check:

• First disable SIP
• Next: sudo mount -uw /
• kernel_autopatcher.py /System/Library/Kernels/kernel
• sudo kextcache -i /

Reference: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/master/reversing-notes.md