1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,400 Okay, so imagine for a moment 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:05,720 that I am a long time Mac user. 3 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:07,320 I know it's a bit of a stretch, 4 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:09,240 but just bear with me for a second here. 5 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:14,240 Now, imagine that I've been putting off an upgrade for years 6 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,000 because I just don't like what Apple's done 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,800 with their pro hardware. 8 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,120 What with the soldering all the components 9 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,260 and minimal upgradeability. 10 00:00:25,260 --> 00:00:27,120 What am I to do? 11 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:30,380 Well, I can just use old hardware 12 00:00:30,380 --> 00:00:32,120 that's losing support, 13 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:36,820 or I can cobble together a hopefully compatible bundle 14 00:00:36,820 --> 00:00:38,920 of components to build a Hackintosh 15 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,160 that even if it works perfectly today 16 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:44,200 is liable to be borked by a future macOS update. 17 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,360 But those options suck. 18 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:50,720 Fortunately, I've got one of these. 19 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:55,680 And Anthony, and he comes bearing another way. 20 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:57,120 So come along with us 21 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:00,380 because we are gonna be using the power of virtualization 22 00:01:00,380 --> 00:01:05,380 to build the no compromises and fully upgradable Mac Pro. 23 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000 And it looks like this. 24 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:18,280 What? 25 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:19,320 Before we get started, 26 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:21,400 there are a few requirements we need to meet. 27 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,980 We need to have a dedicated graphics card. 28 00:01:23,980 --> 00:01:25,140 Is that NVIDIA? 29 00:01:25,140 --> 00:01:25,980 Yup. 30 00:01:25,980 --> 00:01:27,400 Ooh, spicy. 31 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,160 We'll also need a USB controller 32 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:30,660 that we can pass through our virtual machine 33 00:01:30,660 --> 00:01:32,120 for hot plug support. 34 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:34,500 We'll need to access to a real Mac. 35 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:36,880 Got it. 36 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:37,720 Cool. 37 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:39,760 And finally, although this might seem obvious, 38 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:42,060 we'll need a computer. 39 00:01:42,060 --> 00:01:45,180 One with virtualization, both supported and enabled. 40 00:01:45,180 --> 00:01:48,060 Intel calls this VTD and VTX 41 00:01:48,060 --> 00:01:51,460 and AMD calls this SVM for secure virtual machine. 42 00:01:51,460 --> 00:01:53,040 That's what we'll be using today. 43 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:57,300 Wait, so we're gonna be running Ryzen 2? 44 00:01:57,300 --> 00:02:00,140 Not bad, love it. 45 00:02:00,140 --> 00:02:02,060 It's even spicier. 46 00:02:02,060 --> 00:02:05,360 Yeah, but before we can do that, 47 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,240 we'll need to install Linux. 48 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,980 Specifically one with QEMU 3.1 or newer. 49 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:13,560 We used Manjaro because as a rolling release distro, 50 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:15,980 its packages are typically more up-to-date, 51 00:02:15,980 --> 00:02:17,820 but you might prefer something lighter like Arch 52 00:02:17,820 --> 00:02:19,860 if you intend to ignore your Linux install 53 00:02:19,860 --> 00:02:22,560 and use your machine purely as a Mac. 54 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:23,900 Regardless of the distro, 55 00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:25,560 you'll need the following software. 56 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:29,620 Libvirt, QEMU, OVMF, and Virtual Machine Manager 57 00:02:29,620 --> 00:02:31,200 via our Package Manager. 58 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,980 So in Manjaro's case, that would be PAMAC. 59 00:02:33,980 --> 00:02:34,820 PAMAC? 60 00:02:34,820 --> 00:02:36,400 I think it's PAMAC, Package Manager. 61 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:37,240 Cool. 62 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:38,660 Then what we'll need to do is enable the KVM server, 63 00:02:38,660 --> 00:02:39,660 and then we'll need to do is enable the KVM server, 64 00:02:39,660 --> 00:02:40,820 and then we'll need to do is enable the KVM server, 65 00:02:40,820 --> 00:02:44,040 which for us can be achieved by firing up a terminal 66 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,990 and typing these two commands. 67 00:02:46,990 --> 00:02:50,040 But I'm sure you're thinking to yourself, 68 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:52,780 come on Linus, it can't be that simple. 69 00:02:52,780 --> 00:02:55,580 Surely Apple thought of virtual machines 70 00:02:55,580 --> 00:02:58,200 and locked down their OS in some way 71 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:00,240 to keep this from working. 72 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,540 And well, of course they did. 73 00:03:03,540 --> 00:03:05,500 Yeah, but thanks to some really amazing work 74 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:07,800 by the team over at Pass Through Post, 75 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:09,540 there's finally a workaround. 76 00:03:09,540 --> 00:03:10,920 It is a little bit tedious, 77 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:12,580 but if you follow the steps carefully, 78 00:03:12,580 --> 00:03:13,920 it shouldn't take you more than an hour or two 79 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:15,120 to do this at home. 80 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,080 So first, we'll fire up the Linux terminal 81 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:19,920 and type git clone, 82 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:23,740 and paste the URL for the Hackintosh KVM repository, 83 00:03:23,740 --> 00:03:25,340 which will give us a folder 84 00:03:25,340 --> 00:03:28,120 with most of the files that we'll need. 85 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:32,620 The last two that we'll need are ovmf__code.fd 86 00:03:32,620 --> 00:03:37,620 and ovmf__vars.fd from Kolya's OSX KVM Git repository. 87 00:03:39,740 --> 00:03:41,120 So as you guys can see, 88 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:45,160 we are really getting into the weeds now. 89 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,460 Our next step is then relatively simple, 90 00:03:48,460 --> 00:03:51,240 but the most legally problematic. 91 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:56,240 See, downloading macOS is technically free. 92 00:03:57,540 --> 00:04:00,380 You just fire up the app store here, 93 00:04:00,380 --> 00:04:03,200 but only if it's going to be used 94 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,160 according to the end user license agreement from Apple. 95 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:08,200 So on a real Mac. 96 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:09,500 So on a real Mac. 97 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:10,380 So on a real Mac. 98 00:04:10,380 --> 00:04:12,260 Which means that technically, 99 00:04:12,260 --> 00:04:16,220 everything we do from this point on is piracy. 100 00:04:16,220 --> 00:04:17,540 Which means that whether or not 101 00:04:17,540 --> 00:04:20,580 you were to actually deploy a solution like this 102 00:04:20,580 --> 00:04:23,180 is up to your personal moral compass 103 00:04:23,180 --> 00:04:25,040 and your risk tolerance. 104 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:26,220 So using our Mac, 105 00:04:26,220 --> 00:04:27,380 we're gonna download and run 106 00:04:27,380 --> 00:04:30,260 DOSDUDE1's High Sierra Patcher tool 107 00:04:30,260 --> 00:04:33,620 to download and create our installation media. 108 00:04:33,620 --> 00:04:35,380 Go ahead and fire this up here 109 00:04:35,380 --> 00:04:37,220 from an unknown developer. 110 00:04:37,220 --> 00:04:38,380 Beware. 111 00:04:38,380 --> 00:04:39,580 Yeah, we know. 112 00:04:39,580 --> 00:04:41,280 So we get this little error that says 113 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:43,620 your machine is natively supported by High Sierra. 114 00:04:43,620 --> 00:04:45,120 You don't need to use this patch. 115 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,120 One of the other purposes of this patch 116 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,000 is running the latest macOS software 117 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,920 on outdated Macs that Apple no longer supports. 118 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:54,200 Anyway, that's fine. 119 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,040 We knew that. 120 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:56,960 So all we do is go down into tools, 121 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:58,700 download macOS High Sierra, 122 00:04:58,700 --> 00:05:00,120 and then we're gonna save that file 123 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:01,540 to the applications folder. 124 00:05:01,540 --> 00:05:02,380 Once that's done, 125 00:05:02,380 --> 00:05:05,240 we just copy the create ISO High Sierra file 126 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:09,310 over to our flash drive so we can bring it over to our Mac. 127 00:05:09,310 --> 00:05:10,150 Got it. 128 00:05:10,150 --> 00:05:13,150 Then we launch a Mac terminal 129 00:05:13,150 --> 00:05:16,110 and navigate to the folder containing that file. 130 00:05:16,110 --> 00:05:17,430 Before we run it though, 131 00:05:17,430 --> 00:05:21,010 we'll set the executable flag by typing this command 132 00:05:21,010 --> 00:05:22,230 and hitting enter. 133 00:05:22,230 --> 00:05:23,270 And then after that, 134 00:05:23,270 --> 00:05:26,010 we type dot slash create underscore ISO 135 00:05:26,010 --> 00:05:28,110 underscore High Sierra dot sh 136 00:05:28,110 --> 00:05:29,730 and hit enter again. 137 00:05:29,730 --> 00:05:31,730 The process will begin automatically. 138 00:05:31,730 --> 00:05:32,970 And once it's done, 139 00:05:32,970 --> 00:05:35,970 we're going to have a bootable High Sierra ISO 140 00:05:35,970 --> 00:05:37,470 on our Mac's desktop, 141 00:05:37,470 --> 00:05:39,110 which we will then copy, 142 00:05:39,310 --> 00:05:43,880 back onto our USB over to our Linux machine. 143 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,540 I mean, we could copy it over the network as well. 144 00:05:46,540 --> 00:05:47,380 We could. 145 00:05:47,380 --> 00:05:49,680 I mean, we do have that 10 gigabit network. 146 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:51,600 This seems simpler right now. 147 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:52,420 Yeah. 148 00:05:52,420 --> 00:05:53,260 While we wait, 149 00:05:53,260 --> 00:05:55,100 we can set up our VM on our Linux host. 150 00:05:55,100 --> 00:05:58,260 So inside the Hackintosh KVM folder 151 00:05:58,260 --> 00:06:01,220 is a sub folder called example XML files, 152 00:06:01,220 --> 00:06:02,180 containing two files, 153 00:06:02,180 --> 00:06:04,800 helpfully labeled for AMD and Intel users. 154 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:05,800 We're running Ryzen. 155 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,560 So we'll copy the AMD file 156 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,680 to the root of the Hackintosh KVM folder. 157 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,480 And rename to something more useful like hackintosh.xml. 158 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,680 Now at the time of writing, 159 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:17,720 this file is partially corrupt. 160 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,060 So Anthony is going to need to fix it 161 00:06:20,060 --> 00:06:22,140 by opening it in a text editor, 162 00:06:22,140 --> 00:06:23,800 scrolling to the very bottom 163 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,800 and typing slash domain to finish the file. 164 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:32,800 And then by removing all of the value equals dash object lines 165 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:34,560 and their subsequent input lines, 166 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,920 because those are actually specific to the author's 167 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:38,840 computer, 168 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:39,680 not to us. 169 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:40,680 Ours. 170 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:41,640 Now that that's done, 171 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:43,020 we can get back on track here. 172 00:06:43,020 --> 00:06:45,220 So at the top of the file, 173 00:06:45,220 --> 00:06:48,960 we want to edit the loader and the NBRAM lines 174 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,840 to point to files that we got from Coleus Git earlier. 175 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:55,260 Then we can save and close the file. 176 00:06:55,260 --> 00:06:57,960 So it's ready to import. 177 00:06:57,960 --> 00:06:58,800 Yeah. 178 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,060 So I've got virtual machine manager right here. 179 00:07:01,060 --> 00:07:03,180 You can see that there's nothing there, 180 00:07:03,180 --> 00:07:07,380 but if I go into our Hackintosh folder 181 00:07:07,380 --> 00:07:08,840 and do ver.sh, 182 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:09,680 define, 183 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:15,590 hackintosh. 184 00:07:15,590 --> 00:07:16,910 There it is. 185 00:07:16,910 --> 00:07:19,210 Our Hackintosh VM. 186 00:07:19,210 --> 00:07:20,530 So from here, 187 00:07:20,530 --> 00:07:21,990 it's a GUI interface. 188 00:07:21,990 --> 00:07:24,070 So we can just open this puppy up 189 00:07:24,070 --> 00:07:26,210 and we can configure our Hackintosh 190 00:07:26,210 --> 00:07:27,990 however it is that we want. 191 00:07:27,990 --> 00:07:30,490 We can set our CPU core assignments, 192 00:07:30,490 --> 00:07:33,410 allocate however much memory we think we need 193 00:07:33,410 --> 00:07:35,070 and set up our storage media. 194 00:07:35,070 --> 00:07:36,170 So in this case, 195 00:07:36,170 --> 00:07:38,750 we're going to be booting from an NVMe SSD. 196 00:07:38,750 --> 00:07:40,070 One thing to watch out for here, 197 00:07:40,070 --> 00:07:41,510 every CPU is different, 198 00:07:41,510 --> 00:07:42,750 but for Ryzen 7, 199 00:07:42,750 --> 00:07:45,050 assigning eight cores in sequence from one to eight 200 00:07:45,050 --> 00:07:46,750 gives us exactly one CCX, 201 00:07:46,750 --> 00:07:48,710 which produces the on-chip communication overhead 202 00:07:48,710 --> 00:07:49,990 for better performance. 203 00:07:49,990 --> 00:07:52,950 Now next, in order to actually boot this thing, 204 00:07:52,950 --> 00:07:55,250 we'll need to add a virtual hard drive 205 00:07:55,250 --> 00:07:58,590 and point it to the clover.qcow2 file 206 00:07:58,590 --> 00:08:00,830 in our Hackintosh KVM folder. 207 00:08:00,830 --> 00:08:04,590 And we'll also need to add a virtual optical drive loaded 208 00:08:04,590 --> 00:08:08,090 with the High Sierra ISO that we created earlier. 209 00:08:08,090 --> 00:08:09,710 And theoretically, 210 00:08:09,710 --> 00:08:12,550 we are finally ready to install macOS. 211 00:08:12,750 --> 00:08:14,670 Before we pass the boot screen though, 212 00:08:14,670 --> 00:08:16,050 we're going to need to hit escape 213 00:08:16,050 --> 00:08:17,750 to go into the firmware settings 214 00:08:17,750 --> 00:08:21,590 and change the resolution to 1920 by 1080. 215 00:08:21,590 --> 00:08:24,010 This is the resolution that our Clover bootloader 216 00:08:24,010 --> 00:08:25,170 is set to use. 217 00:08:25,170 --> 00:08:26,870 And we're going to get garbled graphics 218 00:08:26,870 --> 00:08:29,050 if we don't change the setting. 219 00:08:29,050 --> 00:08:30,510 Once Clover is booted, 220 00:08:30,510 --> 00:08:32,750 we'll choose the macOS installer 221 00:08:32,750 --> 00:08:36,950 and everything from here on out should be 222 00:08:36,950 --> 00:08:41,410 as though it was on a real Mac, theoretically. 223 00:08:41,410 --> 00:08:42,230 It'll take a minute. 224 00:08:42,230 --> 00:09:02,360 Is that it? 225 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:03,200 Yeah. 226 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:04,020 That's it. 227 00:09:04,020 --> 00:09:04,860 That's it? 228 00:09:04,860 --> 00:09:09,560 A functional macOS desktop on AMD Ryzen 229 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:13,380 and oh my God, it's slow. 230 00:09:13,380 --> 00:09:14,980 It's very laggy. 231 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:17,140 Yeah. 232 00:09:17,140 --> 00:09:19,140 So we can fix that. 233 00:09:19,140 --> 00:09:19,980 Cool. 234 00:09:19,980 --> 00:09:22,020 It's just, it's got all the patches and drivers we need 235 00:09:22,020 --> 00:09:24,300 except for our display. 236 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:25,720 Right. 237 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,560 But are we ready to install that yet? 238 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:30,400 No. 239 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:31,360 No. Okay. 240 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:32,220 Great. 241 00:09:32,220 --> 00:09:33,100 But wait. 242 00:09:33,100 --> 00:09:34,480 There's more. 243 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:39,260 So first we need to download and install Clover 244 00:09:39,260 --> 00:09:41,560 to our main storage media. 245 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:43,640 We can then copy the configuration 246 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,980 from the Hackintosh KVM Clover image and leave it as is, 247 00:09:47,980 --> 00:09:52,020 or we can use it as a starting point for more customization. 248 00:09:52,020 --> 00:09:54,800 So using a tool called Clover Configurator, 249 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:56,600 you can actually do all kinds of fun things 250 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,940 like modify the boot screen and edit your serial number 251 00:09:59,940 --> 00:10:02,940 to get access to FaceTime and iMessage, et cetera, et cetera. 252 00:10:02,940 --> 00:10:06,700 Now, this is the point where we say goodbye 253 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:08,900 to our slow built-in graphics 254 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:13,280 and switch over to our dedicated card here. 255 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,600 So what we'll need to do is shut down our VM 256 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,820 and then open up its configuration 257 00:10:18,820 --> 00:10:20,320 in Virtual Machine Manager, 258 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:25,320 where we will manually fully pass through this GPU. 259 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,480 So this is actually a GTX 1070 over here 260 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:32,480 that's separate from the RTX 2060 that Linux is running on. 261 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:36,820 While we're at it, we can also pass through a USB controller 262 00:10:36,820 --> 00:10:40,560 so that we can hot plug USB devices within our VM. 263 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:44,240 Now, if your motherboard has multiple USB controllers on it, 264 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,440 like an Intel one and an As Media one, 265 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:51,020 you may be able to do this without a separate add-in card. 266 00:10:51,020 --> 00:10:53,560 Otherwise, macOS compatible USB cards 267 00:10:53,560 --> 00:10:55,900 are available for just a few bucks. 268 00:10:55,900 --> 00:10:57,560 In order to make this work though, 269 00:10:57,560 --> 00:11:00,240 we're gonna need to edit a couple of system files, 270 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:02,400 starting with etc slash default 271 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,100 slash grub to tell Linux which devices, 272 00:11:06,100 --> 00:11:08,360 like which parts of the hardware here 273 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,320 it should leave available for us to pass through 274 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:14,400 and to enable support for splitting our devices 275 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:18,280 into IOMMU groups that can be passed through to a VM. 276 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:19,860 Now we're back in the command line 277 00:11:19,860 --> 00:11:21,480 and in both sections here, 278 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:25,480 we're gonna add AMD underscore IOMMU equals on 279 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:29,720 and VFIO dash PCI dot IDs equals 280 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,180 followed by the IDs of the devices 281 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:34,140 that we want to pass through, 282 00:11:34,140 --> 00:11:36,980 which we can then check by loading up a terminal 283 00:11:36,980 --> 00:11:41,980 and typing LSPCI dash NN and then looking for the devices. 284 00:11:43,940 --> 00:11:45,520 That's our Turing, there we go. 285 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:48,280 That one right there is our GPU 286 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,560 and then the HDMI audio device 287 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:52,140 that should be right under it 288 00:11:52,140 --> 00:11:55,320 is the audio controller for our GPU. 289 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,020 Now, before you fully commit to this, 290 00:11:57,020 --> 00:12:00,360 you may want to run this command to check and see 291 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:01,940 if your IOMMU groups 292 00:12:01,940 --> 00:12:03,280 are separated correctly. 293 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:07,240 If not, you're gonna wanna try different PCI express slots, 294 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,900 like maybe ones connected directly to the CPU 295 00:12:09,900 --> 00:12:11,940 instead of the chip set, 296 00:12:11,940 --> 00:12:14,020 which some other boards will have labels for, 297 00:12:14,020 --> 00:12:16,140 or else it'll be in the manual. 298 00:12:16,140 --> 00:12:19,780 If that fails, you can look into ACS overrides, 299 00:12:19,780 --> 00:12:23,040 but let me tell you, 300 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:24,460 that was an absolute nightmare 301 00:12:24,460 --> 00:12:27,380 when I was trying to figure out six workstations, one CPU, 302 00:12:27,380 --> 00:12:29,620 and even then it ultimately didn't solve the problem. 303 00:12:29,620 --> 00:12:31,880 And we had to switch to a different motherboard, 304 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,720 and we had to make sure that it worked out right. 305 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,920 So before undertaking a project like this, 306 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:38,500 I'd recommend seeing 307 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:41,180 how well your board handles virtualization. 308 00:12:41,180 --> 00:12:43,260 Some vendors do it better than others, 309 00:12:43,260 --> 00:12:46,000 and some models do it better than others. 310 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,460 Now, because Linux is using the video card 311 00:12:48,460 --> 00:12:49,800 and USB controller we need, 312 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,150 we had to do a system reboot. 313 00:12:52,150 --> 00:12:54,230 Now we can go back to virtual machine manager, 314 00:12:54,230 --> 00:12:55,770 remove our temporary display adapter, 315 00:12:55,770 --> 00:12:57,770 double check that these devices you pass through 316 00:12:57,770 --> 00:13:00,630 are actually the right devices, and boot it up. 317 00:13:00,630 --> 00:13:01,490 Okay. 318 00:13:02,330 --> 00:13:05,780 Double check here, just moving everything over. 319 00:13:05,780 --> 00:13:07,970 Theoretically. 320 00:13:07,970 --> 00:13:08,790 Okay. 321 00:13:08,790 --> 00:13:13,000 This is now a Mac, and this is a Linux PC. 322 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,940 And they're both running off of this same box 323 00:13:14,940 --> 00:13:17,620 with half the CPU allocated to each 324 00:13:17,620 --> 00:13:21,650 and one graphics card for each. 325 00:13:21,650 --> 00:13:22,730 We might want to go in. 326 00:13:22,730 --> 00:13:24,190 Oh yeah, that's this again. 327 00:13:24,190 --> 00:13:25,610 Got to change our boot order. 328 00:13:25,610 --> 00:13:26,730 Can't control, delete, do it. 329 00:13:26,730 --> 00:13:28,030 Oh, nope. 330 00:13:28,030 --> 00:13:29,190 So this was unexpected. 331 00:13:29,190 --> 00:13:31,430 This has never happened in a Linus Tech Tips video before. 332 00:13:31,430 --> 00:13:33,850 We actually had some technical difficulties, 333 00:13:33,850 --> 00:13:35,030 and for some reason, 334 00:13:35,030 --> 00:13:38,870 it was not letting us select 1080p over here 335 00:13:38,870 --> 00:13:41,330 with the NVIDIA card passed through. 336 00:13:41,330 --> 00:13:42,830 So that's fine. 337 00:13:42,830 --> 00:13:45,990 We just took it off, put back the garbage drivers. 338 00:13:45,990 --> 00:13:46,950 And then what we're going to do 339 00:13:46,950 --> 00:13:50,530 is install the NVIDIA web driver ahead of time 340 00:13:50,530 --> 00:13:52,570 so that when we boot up with the NVIDIA card, 341 00:13:52,570 --> 00:13:54,190 it's ready to rock. 342 00:13:54,190 --> 00:13:56,830 So all we need is a handy little script 343 00:13:56,830 --> 00:14:00,730 over at Benjamin Dobell's NVIDIA-Update Git repository, 344 00:14:00,730 --> 00:14:02,530 which will grab the best NVIDIA driver 345 00:14:02,530 --> 00:14:04,330 for our macOS version. 346 00:14:05,030 --> 00:14:07,530 Then we reboot. 347 00:14:07,530 --> 00:14:08,370 Okay. 348 00:14:08,370 --> 00:14:09,190 So let's try that again. 349 00:14:09,190 --> 00:14:10,370 We should be good to go now. 350 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:16,140 Now, it may do that weird thing again. 351 00:14:16,140 --> 00:14:16,960 It does. 352 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:17,800 It did. 353 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:18,640 Yep. 354 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:20,260 That's a good way to use a computer. 355 00:14:20,260 --> 00:14:21,600 Like this. 356 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:23,560 A little window right there. 357 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:26,420 Human vision is like, you know, it's wide, man. 358 00:14:26,420 --> 00:14:27,720 It's not tall, man. 359 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:30,760 So we got, oh, we're back to 16 by nine. 360 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:32,960 Like a, like a loser. 361 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,880 Like a loser running an AMD processor. 362 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,600 With a higher performance graphics card 363 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,920 than you can currently buy in a Mac, 364 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:44,600 which I actually don't know is technically true 365 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:46,720 because we were going to run this with a 1080 TI. 366 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:48,140 Whatever the point is, don't worry about it. 367 00:14:48,140 --> 00:14:52,680 We could be running a 1080 TI in macOS 368 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,840 with GPU acceleration. 369 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:59,060 This is something else. 370 00:14:59,060 --> 00:15:01,560 Ah, there we go. 371 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,450 Blah, blah, blah, blah. 372 00:15:04,450 --> 00:15:05,450 Holy shit. 373 00:15:06,950 --> 00:15:08,350 Ryza. 374 00:15:08,350 --> 00:15:12,160 Take that, apple.com. 375 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:13,580 Yeah, you like that? 376 00:15:13,580 --> 00:15:16,000 Oh, show me your Mac option with Ryzen. 377 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:16,960 Do you have one? 378 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:18,080 Do you have one like that? 379 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:19,920 Oh, oh, you don't. 380 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:23,320 You don't have one like that, huh? 381 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:24,740 Wow, what a bummer. 382 00:15:24,740 --> 00:15:25,560 Yeah, it's a real bummer. 383 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,720 Maybe they can put something in the Mac Pro. 384 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,900 Now, there is more you can do to improve performance, 385 00:15:30,900 --> 00:15:31,900 like setting up the VM 386 00:15:31,900 --> 00:15:33,800 to use statically assigned memory pages, 387 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,680 pinning and isolating CPU cores, 388 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:37,440 and bypassing pulse audio on the host. 389 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,320 And if you don't plan on using Linux for anything, 390 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,020 making your machine just boot macOS at startup. 391 00:15:43,020 --> 00:15:44,900 You can also get FaceTime and iMessage running 392 00:15:44,900 --> 00:15:46,220 as we alluded to before, 393 00:15:46,220 --> 00:15:48,060 but it seems to be a bit of a hit or miss thing. 394 00:15:48,060 --> 00:15:50,140 So that might be a project for another day. 395 00:15:50,140 --> 00:15:53,480 And actually, I mean, I think that's a perfect place 396 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:55,100 for us to sign off here 397 00:15:55,100 --> 00:15:58,590 because I think we've accomplished 398 00:15:58,590 --> 00:16:00,090 what we set out to do today. 399 00:16:00,090 --> 00:16:02,790 And while we can go much deeper, 400 00:16:02,790 --> 00:16:05,410 honestly, I'd like to kind of make this up to the audience, 401 00:16:05,410 --> 00:16:06,830 what they want to see us do with this, 402 00:16:06,830 --> 00:16:08,130 because here's the thing. 403 00:16:08,130 --> 00:16:11,930 You guys got to understand because this is a VM, 404 00:16:11,930 --> 00:16:14,750 just like two gamers, one CPU, seven gamers, one CPU, 405 00:16:14,750 --> 00:16:19,430 all those projects, it will run on any hardware. 406 00:16:19,430 --> 00:16:22,470 That was part of the reason that an NVIDIA GPU 407 00:16:22,470 --> 00:16:24,470 and AMD CPU was chosen 408 00:16:24,470 --> 00:16:26,170 because those are specifically things 409 00:16:26,170 --> 00:16:27,710 along with the chip set here 410 00:16:27,710 --> 00:16:30,550 that are not supported by Apple, 411 00:16:30,550 --> 00:16:33,550 like not even weird bootleg drivers 412 00:16:33,550 --> 00:16:35,930 that people ripped out of macOS and whatever, 413 00:16:35,930 --> 00:16:37,430 like they are not supported. 414 00:16:38,130 --> 00:16:41,370 So we can run this on like a Threadripper 415 00:16:41,370 --> 00:16:46,370 or a Xeon W3175X with a Titan XP and huge amounts of memory. 416 00:16:46,830 --> 00:16:51,050 So with this method, we could basically create the Mac 417 00:16:51,050 --> 00:16:53,970 that Apple fans can currently only dream of, 418 00:16:53,970 --> 00:16:56,260 one that doesn't thermal throttle. 419 00:16:56,260 --> 00:16:58,100 For now though, honestly, 420 00:16:58,100 --> 00:17:01,680 after everything that especially you went through, 421 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:05,720 I'm happy this thing is just running at all. 422 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,100 So maybe let us know in the comments, guys, 423 00:17:08,100 --> 00:17:11,180 do you wanna see us take a fatter machine 424 00:17:11,180 --> 00:17:13,060 for a spin with this method? 425 00:17:13,060 --> 00:17:17,760 Maybe like a Hackintosh versus loaded up iMac Pro 426 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:19,980 for content creation benchmark, 427 00:17:19,980 --> 00:17:24,980 or maybe like Linux versus Mac versus Windows gaming 428 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:27,900 all at the same time on the same box. 429 00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:28,800 I mean, I don't know. 430 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:33,020 The possibilities are kind of endless here. 431 00:17:33,020 --> 00:17:34,020 So thanks for watching guys. 432 00:17:34,020 --> 00:17:35,800 If this video sucked, you know what to do, 433 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:37,800 but if it was awesome, get subscribed, hit that like button, 434 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,340 or check out the link to where to buy the stuff 435 00:17:40,340 --> 00:17:42,100 we featured in the video description. 436 00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:43,600 Also down there is our merch store, 437 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,220 which has cool shirts like this one 438 00:17:45,220 --> 00:17:48,220 and our community forum, which you should totally join.