Tag: osx

Looking to resize an existing qcow2 or raw data volume with QEMU? I had to do the same thing and went through some trouble in trying to do this. My first idea was to use GParted and boot from the live-cd iso to extend the apfs partition. However, it turns out that GParted does not… Continue reading Resizing an OSX VM with apfs and QEMU

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: 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