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MacHyperVSupport

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Hyper-V integration services for macOS. Requires a Generation 2 virtual machine on Windows Server 2012 R2 / Windows 8.1 or higher. Windows Server 2016 is currently unsupported.

All Intel macOS versions are supported.

Supported Hyper-V devices and services

  • Heartbeat
  • Guest shutdown (with daemon)
  • Time synchronization (with daemon)
  • Host to guest file copy (with daemon)
  • PCI passthrough (partial support)
  • Synthetic graphics (partial support)
  • Synthetic keyboard
  • Synthetic mouse
  • Synthetic network controller
  • Synthetic SCSI controller

Binaries

  • MacHyperVSupport.kext: Core Hyper-V support kext for macOS 10.4 to 11.0.
  • MacHyperVSupportMonterey.kext: Core Hyper-V support kext for macOS 12.0 and newer.
  • hvfilecopyd: File copy userspace daemon.
  • hvshutdownd: Shutdown userspace daemon.
  • hvtimesyncd: Time synchronization userspace daemon.

OpenCore configuration

ACPI

  • SSDT-HV-VMBUS: Enables correct Startup Disk operation, ensure patches described within are also configured.
  • SSDT-HV-DEV: Required on Windows Server 2019 / Windows 10 and newer, provides proper processor objects and disables incompatible virtual devices under macOS.
  • SSDT-HV-DEV-WS2022: Required on Windows Server 2022 / Windows 11 and newer, disables addiitonal incompatible virtual devices under macOS.
  • SSDT-HV-PLUG: Ensures VMPlatformPlugin loads on Big Sur and above, avoids freezes with the default PlatformPlugin.
  • Ensure all patches described in above SSDTs are present in ACPI->Patch.

Booter quirks

  • AllowRelocationBlock - required for macOS 10.7 and older
  • AvoidRuntimeDefrag - required
  • ForceExitBootServices - required for macOS 10.7 and older
  • ProvideCustomSlide - required
  • RebuildAppleMemoryMap - required for macOS 10.6 and older

Kernel

  • Quirks
    • ProvideCurrentCpuInfo - required for proper TSC/FSB values and CPU topology values.
  • The following additional kernel extensions are required:
  • Block
    • com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime
      • Required for 32-bit versions of macOS (10.4 and 10.5, and 10.6 in 32-bit mode). EFI runtime services and NVRAM are unavailable in those versions due to incompatiblities with the Hyper-V UEFI.
  • Force
    • On older versions of macOS, the following kernel extensions may need to be Force injected. Refer to the OpenCore Configuration manual for details.
    • IONetworkingFamily (com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily)
    • IOSCSIParallelFamily (com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIParallelFamily)
  • Patch
    • Disable _hpet_init
      • Arch = i386
      • Base = _hpet_init
      • Comment = Disables _hpet_init due to no HPET hardware present
      • Count = 1
      • Identifier = kernel
      • MaxKernel = 9.5.99
      • Replace = C3
    • Disable IOHIDDeviceShim::newTransportString()
      • Arch = i386
      • Base = __ZNK15IOHIDDeviceShim18newTransportStringEv
      • Comment = Fix crash in IOHIDDeviceShim::newTransportString() caused by NULL _deviceType
      • Count = 1
      • Identifier = com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily
      • MaxKernel = 9.6.99
      • MinKernel = 9.4.0
      • Replace = 31C0C3
    • Disable scaling factor for X/Y mouse movement
      • Arch = i386
      • Base = __ZN16IOHIDEventDriver21handleInterruptReportE12UnsignedWideP18IOMemoryDescriptor15IOHIDReportTypem
      • Comment = Workaround for absence of AbsoluteAxisBoundsRemovalPercentage in 10.4
      • Identifier = com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily
      • Find = BA1F85EB51
      • MaxKernel = 8.11.99
      • MinKernel = 8.0.0
      • Replace = BA00000000
  • Emulate
    • DummyPowerManagement and CPU spoofing may be required depending on the host CPU for older versions of macOS.

NVRAM

  • Boot arguments
    • -legacy is required for running 32-bit versions of macOS (10.4 - 10.5, 10.6 if running in 32-bit mode). 64-bit applications and NVRAM support are unavailable in those versions.

UEFI

  • Quirks
    • DisableSecurityPolicy - required on Windows Server 2019 / Windows 10 and newer

Installer image creation

  • Installer images can either be passed in from USB hard disks, or converted from a DMG to a VHDX image using qemu-img:
    • DMGs need to be in a read/write format first.
    • qemu-img convert -f raw -O vhdx Installer.dmg Installer.vhdx

Boot arguments

See the module list for boot arguments for each module.

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