MacHyperVSupport
Hyper-V integration services for macOS. Requires a Generation 2 virtual machine on Windows 8.1 or higher.
Supported Hyper-V devices and services
- Heartbeat
- Guest shutdown
- Synthetic graphics (partial support)
- Synthetic mouse
- Synthetic keyboard
- Synthetic SCSI controller
- Synthetic network controller
Additional information
- The following SSDTs should be used for proper operation:
- SSDT-HV-CPU: Required on Windows 10 as Hyper-V on this version may not expose processors as Processor objects
- SSDT-HV-PLUG: Ensures VMPlatformPlugin loads on Big Sur, avoids freezes with the default PlatformPlugin
- SSDT-HV-VMBUS: Enables correct Startup Disk operation
- On older versions of macOS, IOSCSIParallelFamily (com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIParallelFamily) may need to be Force injected. Refer to the OpenCore Configuration manual for details.
- Booter quirks
- AllowRelocationBlock - required for macOS 10.7 and older
- AvoidRuntimeDefrag - required
- ForceExitBootServices - required for macOS 10.7 and older
- RebuildAppleMemoryMap - required for macOS 10.6 and older
- Kernel quirks
- ProvideCurrentCpuInfo - required for proper TSC/FSB values and CPU topology values.
- UEFI quirks
- DisableSecurityPolicy - required on Windows 10 and newer
- Lilu is required for patching and library functions
- 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
Changelog v0.9
- Added constants for macOS 13 support
Credits
- Apple for macOS
- Goldfish64 for this software
- vit9696 for Lilu.kext and providing assistance
- Microsoft Hypervisor Top-Level Functional Specification
- Linux and FreeBSD Hyper-V integration services
