OS X Guest on Bhyve

[Charles Remes]

There is a virtio-net driver but it’s likely out of date. See here:

https://github.com/pmj/virtio-net-osx

The author periodically responds to opened issues but has stated they don’t have time to continue work on it. This did work at one point so it probably just needs some bit-rot repaired.


> On Aug 5, 2016, at 10:15, Cory Smelosky <corys at ixsystems.com> wrote:
> 
> I am unaware of any drivers for virtio-net or the ne2k for OS X offhand, however if there ends up being an e1000 emilation you will be golden there.
> OS X should be happy with the AHCI device however.
> 
> If I get bored this weekend I may take a crack at it - I'm betting it's AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext related proving issues.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 8:09 AM -0700, "Trent Thompson" <trentnthompson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Jordan,
> I've attempted this in the past, and got to an Apple boot screen [1] using
> the Clover "Hackintosh" bootloader and Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan. However,
> depending on the drivers used [2], the instance will either "blow up"
> (crash), or just sit there and hang. After creating the Clover USB stick, I
> just use dd to write the image to a file and use that with the ahci-hd
> bhyve driver. I don't attach anything else, no serial, no network, or
> second hard drive yet. According to some Hackintosh people, we should try
> different Clover Drivers and "kexts," as well as booting into "verbose
> mode" so we can see how far the boot gets, and where it breaks.
> 
> I also don't think I'm the only one working on this...
> 
> Hope this information helps.
> 
> -Trent (pr1ntf)
> 
> [1] https://twitter.com/pr1ntf/status/750574003954352128
> [2] https://twitter.com/pr1ntf/status/759734390310121472
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