Complete Guide to Install Virtual Machine for Mac OSX and HISE with FAUST

[DabDab]

Can I get a "Complete Guide to Install Virtual Machine for Mac OSX and HISE with FAUST" ?

I am new to Virtual machine. I have recently assembled a Gigabyte MB H61, 16 GB RAM, Intel i5 CPU.

Now I want to use it to run Mac OSX to compile HISE AU plugins. How to start ? where to start ?

[d.healey]

@DabDab There is no single answer because there are a lot of ways to do it. I have a dedicated system for VMs which is running proxmox. I also use Gnome Boxes on my main system. In the past I've used virtual box. Probably best to start on YouTube, there are loads of tutorials.

[Dan Korneff]

I'll try to make a video today.
My process is:

• use a dedicated machine
• install proxmox virtual environment
• install OSX-PROXMOX
• use the osx-proxmox utility to create VM

If you're going to use the server as your main design rig, you can add a video card and enable "GPU Passthrough" which will output the VM to your monitor.
Otherwise, you can just use remote desktop app to access the VM. This will be without GPU acceleration so the response will have a lag to it, but completely usable.

[d.healey]

@Dan-Korneff Do you use a CI tool to automate builds?

[Dan Korneff]

@d-healey Yes. OSX-PROXMOX is a CLI tool for super easy macOS VM installation.
https://github.com/luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX
EDIT: I think you mean HISE CI to automate project builds.... Not yet.

Also... lifehack: use a retired datacenter server. I'm using these machines:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/155452851860?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=rI5jpFxtSLW&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=1OqcnO2RT3u&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

-16 cores (32 threads)
-128GB ram
$260

I bought a boatload of them so I can run multiple High Availability clusters (I basically have a small datacenter) :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
My ONLY gripe is power consumption. They use about 4kwH/day, so 24/7 usage costs me about $25/month for each machine in electricity.

[d.healey]

@Dan-Korneff

They use about 4kwH/day, so 24/7 usage costs me about $25/month for each machine in electricity.

I bet it keeps you warm in the winter :)

I'm using an Intel NUC in a fanless case. I just need it to run my builds every so often, 99% of the time it's turned off.

Yes. OSX-PROXMOX is a CLI tool for super easy macOS VM installation

That looks much simpler than the method I used.

[Dan Korneff]

@d-healey I used Nick's tutorials for almost all of my VM builds, but I couldn't find a way for the latest proxmox to work with High Sierra. I stumbled upon OSX-PROXMOX a few months ago and it changed my life hahaha! Had it up and running in minutes. I haven't figure out how to make the boot EFI permanent yet like you can in Nick's tutorial, so I still have a little investigating to do.
The other thing that I found to be important is using OpenCore configurator to generate new system IDs and serial numbers before you sign into your apple account. I've run into a few collisions with other people using the stock serial number/IDs and was unable to to sign in. Took a while to figure that one out.

[Matt_SF]

Following, because virtualBox doesn't work so well

[Dan Korneff]

@Matt_SF Yeah... a Type 2 hypervisor, like VirtualBox, is not ideal.

[d.healey]

@Dan-Korneff Oh I don't think I changed my system ID do you have more details?

[Dan Korneff]

@d-healey Grab opencore configurator online:
https://mackie100projects.altervista.org/download-opencore-configurator/

• Use it to mount your EFI partition.
• open the config.plist on your EFI partition.
• go to the PlatformInfo tab.
• click the "generate" button for UUID and Serial Number.
• save and restart

[DabDab]

@Dan-Korneff said in Complete Guide to Install Virtual Machine for Mac OSX and HISE with FAUST:

I'll try to make a video today.
My process is:

• use a dedicated machine
• install proxmox virtual environment
• install OSX-PROXMOX
• use the osx-proxmox utility to create VM

If you're going to use the server as your main design rig, you can add a video card and enable "GPU Passthrough" which will output the VM to your monitor.
Otherwise, you can just use remote desktop app to access the VM. This will be without GPU acceleration so the response will have a lag to it, but completely usable.

Great.. it will be great. (y)

[d.healey]

@Dan-Korneff How do you get sound out of your MacOS VM?

[Dan Korneff]

@d-healey I have a USB interface plugged into the proxmox server. That is shared to the VM via USB pass through.

[d.healey]

@Dan-Korneff I didn't want to have to connect my speakers up so I decided to pass through a usb bluetooth dongle and connect it to my bt headphones.

[Dan Korneff]

@d-healey did it work?

[d.healey]

@Dan-Korneff Yeah

[oskarsh]

@d-healey @Dan-Korneff When running proxmox on a dedicated machine do i still need a extra gpu for video acceleration/ gpu passthrough? I thought the proxmox os is running without a xserver so the gpu could be used entirely for the virtual machine.

I have a semi broken notebook that I would like to use as the proxmox host, but adding a extra gpu is no option here.

[d.healey]

@oskarsh If you are going to use it as an everyday system to do serious work on then for MacOS you would probably benefit from a GPU because it's laggy, but you don't need one. I don't have one.

[Dan Korneff]

@oskarsh as @d-healey said, you'll want GPU acceleration on any machine that you use on a regular basis. I'm only using it in my main design OS and I just deal with the lag on the other machines. It's not unusable, just slightly annoying.