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Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches

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Re: Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches

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Post by TacticalCoder »

nixosbestos wrote: post #6

How is this easier than OSX-KVM? I can't imagine how proxmox is easier (or better for most use-cases I can think of) than qemu. EDIT: Script just immediately tries to apt-get stuff. Nah. Oh lord and then helps itself to editting your apt sources. (All just to get git? How odd.) Before downloading another un-tagged/un-versioned link and excuting it. Nah nah nah.

I don't like the untagged/unversioned script either but...

Proxmox is easy. To me Proxmox is not just a bit but much easier than "directly running QEMU". It's also got ZFS for free working out of the box. I'm not saying it's secure. I'm not saying it's giving you the utmost control. I'm saying Proxmox is the definition of easy.

Re: Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches

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Post by Saris »

genewitch wrote: post #29
Saris wrote: post #23

I've come across this one before, but the script is doing apt stuff which is really odd so I didn't use it.

it's removing the enterprise and ceph repos from proxmox. i can take a screenshot to show you what it's removing. Basically if you're not paying for proxmox, and you're running a single node, there's absolutely no reason to have either of those apt sources in the config. I don't remove them, and it does pollute the log at the bottom of proxmox interface with apt errors, so i could see why someone would just disable t…

Yeah but I've already done that, it's just odd that something to set up an OSX VM is for some reason deciding to help me with my OS config too.

Re: Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches

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Post by genewitch »

Saris wrote: post #32
genewitch wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's removing the enterprise and ceph repos from proxmox. i can take a screenshot to show you what it's removing. Basically if you're not paying for proxmox, and you're running a single node, there's absolutely no reason to have either of those apt sources in the config. I don't remove them, and it does pollute the log at the bottom of proxmox interface with apt errors, so i could see why someone would just disable t…

Yeah but I've already done that, it's just odd that something to set up an OSX VM is for some reason deciding to help me with my OS config too.

whenever i release stuff on github it's kinda in this sort of state, "it works on my setup." i'm not a software developer or publisher and TBQH i'd be shocked if anyone ran my code other than me.

Re: Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches

#34

Post by Saris »

genewitch wrote: post #33
Saris wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah but I've already done that, it's just odd that something to set up an OSX VM is for some reason deciding to help me with my OS config too.

whenever i release stuff on github it's kinda in this sort of state, "it works on my setup." i'm not a software developer or publisher and TBQH i'd be shocked if anyone ran my code other than me.

Yeah fair enough!

Re: Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

Almost totally OT, but since this is fundamentally about QEMU ...

... yesterday I needed to access data in a MySQL database that was shutdown in 2022. At that time, it had been managed by MySQL 5.5.62. On my current Debian system, we are at 10.X (MariaDB). I had a backup of the entire DB folder and tried to get MySQL/MariaDB to read it. Tried a couple of different things. Failure.

Then ... grab Ubuntu 14.04 ISO ... type virt-manager in a terminal ... less than 15 minutes later I'm in the MySQL shell running queries on the old DB.

Modern VM stuff is just fucking amazing.

Re: Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches

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Post by pixelatedindex »

henning wrote: post #5

curling some random install script from some domain I've never heard of and is possibly unrelated to this GitHub repo? great! what could possibly go wrong?

I always try to read the source script before running it, unless it’s something I trust highly (brew, for example or tteck scripts in the case of PVE). Even then, I read some of them just to see what it does under the hood.

Re: Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches

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Post by kccqzy »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #35

Almost totally OT, but since this is fundamentally about QEMU ... ... yesterday I needed to access data in a MySQL database that was shutdown in 2022. At that time, it had been managed by MySQL 5.5.62. On my current Debian system, we are at 10.X (MariaDB). I had a backup of the entire DB folder and tried to get MySQL/MariaDB to read it. Tried a couple of different things. Failure. Then ... grab Ubuntu 14.04 ISO ... t…

The Linux kernel's "don't break user space" motto probably means that you don't need a full VM, just a container that has that old version of MySQL and you probably can run it just fine with docker or podman.

Re: Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches

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Post by dingensundso »

throw0101b wrote: post #30
JamesSwift wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is all standard proxmox setup and is step 1 for anyone running the free version

> This is all standard proxmox setup and is step 1 for anyone running the free version I run the free version and do not delete the Ceph repos (especially since I'm using Ceph amongst my storage options): if [ -e /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ceph.list ]; then rm -rf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ceph.list; fi; At the very least run a sed command to just comment out any/all lines in the files instead of nuking them.

Or change the file extension to anything else than .list

Re: Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches

#39

Post by pkkkzip »

haunter wrote: post #16

There is also Docker OSX https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX

one problem I found was you need to be connected to the internet to install MacOSX?

also apparently its a violation of Apple license if you run OSX on a non-Apple hardware?

so im concerned if I connect my VM to the internet and install OSX on my proxmox it will dial home to Apple :/

Re: Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches

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Post by wpm »

pkkkzip wrote: post #39
haunter wrote: post #16

There is also Docker OSX https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX

one problem I found was you need to be connected to the internet to install MacOSX? also apparently its a violation of Apple license if you run OSX on a non-Apple hardware? so im concerned if I connect my VM to the internet and install OSX on my proxmox it will dial home to Apple :/

Even if it did dial home, do you think Apple is going to come after you, single human being, running BS-tier workloads on a VM you're technically not licensed to run? They are a $1T company or thereabouts, they literally do not care about you.
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