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Ubuntu 15.10 running on i5-6500 CPU.

Fedora 24 running on i5-6500 CPU.

Tested with QEMU 2.4.1 and QEMU 2.5.

• Download OS X El Capitan or macOS Sierra installer from Apple App Store.

• Run the ISO creation script, making sure to use 'sudo'.

• Copy the ISO from your Mac to your KVM machine.

See boot.sh file for an alternate to the following virsh method.

virsh --connect qemu:///system define macOS-libvirt.xml

• Redefine HDD/DVD sources in virt-manager.

• Start the VM in virt-manager and hit return in the console window.

• After booting, the initial language selection should show up.

• After selecting the language, fire-up the Disk Utility ...

• ... and initialize the new harddisk.

• After disk initialization, open a terminal window (in the Utilities menu) and recursively copy the /Extra folder to the newly initialized target volume using

   cp -av /Extra "/Volumes/NewVolumeName"

• When done, quit Terminal.

• Now, you can continue with the installation as usual

• When finished, the VM will reboot automatically and the first time setup continues as usual.

Host machine may need the following tweak for this to work,

echo 1 > /sys/module/kvm/parameters/ignore_msrs

Type the following in the bootloader if the guest VM fails to boot (some older ISO images may require this),

"KernelBooter_kexts"="Yes" "CsrActiveConfig"="103"

• Fritz Elfert (felfert) - cleanups, better documentation, and nicer ISO creation script

• Ian McDowell (IMcD23) - more documentation, and better ISO creation script

• voobscout - libvirt XML file

• https://github.com/Karlson2k/k2k-OSX-Tools

• https://macosxvirtualmachinekvm.wordpress.com/guide-mac-os-x-10-11-el-capitan-vm-on-unraid/

• http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/

• http://bit.do/bootable