Mac OS install on AMD Ryzen (VMWare) Opencore

[batmanbattleman]

Hi everyone, I own a Ryzen 7 4800H Series. I encountered a problem during the startup procedure, I click on sonoma and a list of parameters starts, and then I get to the following error (see attachment)

 

[Edhawk]

Look through the SSDT's you have added to the /EFI/OC/ACPI folder.

Search for an SSDT that contains [PSTA] device, with [_STA] @0001 #002D:

This SSDT is causing the error. I would remove the SSDT from your setup and see if that helps.

 

[Mushie]

The FX6300 system is unlikely to be a UEFI based system, as most AMD motherboards of that time were using the old Legacy BIOS. So you may need to look in to booting it as a Legacy system.

The FX (Bulldozer) family of CPU's work with the OC Kernel Patches the same as the Ryzen systems do. But they require a different set of entries in the config.plist and a few different kexts added to the /EFI/OC/Kexts folder.

AMD FX guide - https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/AMD/fx.html

AppleALC.kext doesn't work on the FX systems, I had to use VoodooHDA.kext and the audio was not great.

I also had to use XLNCUSBFix.kext for the old USB ports to function, most only worked at USB 1.1 (12mb/s) speed.

I have attached an old OpenCore EFI, which I used with an FX300/Asus Sabertooth FX990 R2.0 system. The Sabertooth FX990 R2.0 was UEFI capable. I no longer have this system to hand so don't have a newer EFI for this setup.

Thanks for your guidance but I think it is time for me to give up. My history is that I can successfully install both Sonoma and Ventura on my AMD 3700X with the files provided in the OP - for Ventura, I use all the same provided files but simply switch the Sonoma.iso with a Ventura.iso. All works fine (for my purposes anyway).

However, when I attempt to install either Sonoma or Ventura on my PC with FX6300/ASRock 970 Extreme 3 R2.0 (UEFI compliant) it does not work.."The firmware encountered an unexpected exception. The virtual machine cannot boot."

Since the PC with FX6300 is my preferred machine to run VMWare (for personal reasons), I have followed the Dortania guide twice, and even this YouTube video with no success. When I create the USB with either of these methods, I get "The firmware encountered an unexpected exception. The virtual machine cannot boot."

I have also taken the "macOS_OpencoreBoot.vmdk" from the first post and replaced the EFI with the one I created from the Dortania guide. When I attempted to install Sonoma on FX6300 the screen flashes with code and appears to be working, then gets stuck with "Waiting for remote debugger connection."

I admit, I am new and don't really know what I am doing with Opencore. I have previously been able to install any macOS up to Monterey on either PC simply by editing the vmx file. Again, for my intended use of macOS, that is really all I need but was hoping to get either Ventura or Sonoma working...just because.

I've included my EFI in case anyone can spot something obviously wrong. Otherwise, I have put too much time into this and can continue using my current Mojave and Monterey VMs.

Thanks again!

 

[Yankel26]

Hello thank you very much for this tutorial I finally managed to install it properly but I encountered a problem, even after installing the VM tools the resolution remains at 3 mb. Impossible to fix it, if anyone wants to help me that would be great.

 

[sstrijak]

Note that all cores MUST be on the same CPU. In the following screen, having 2 processors with 2 core each did not work, frozen on boot

 

[fyrebug]

this guide is great and I have sonoma running successfully on my 5950x. I'm not a mac person though and just using it for the first time.
I'd like to edit the config to enable more cores and change the model of mac to hopefully speed it up a bit.

EDIT
got it working. i didn't realize I needed to right click on the plist config file and open it in OC tools that way. I kept trying to open OC tools first and open from there which didn't seem to work.

I've set the machine to a mac pro 7,1 now and that seemed to help performance a little. I've got it running with 8 cores and 16gb of ram.

> The issue now is when I ask it to shut down it doesn't really. the screen goes black and there's a high cpu usage, but it doesn't seem to shut down. I have to use the power> shut down guest command in vmware. not sure if something is going to get corrupted over time doing that

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[kamiking]

Hi, thanks a lot. It works great for me. But i have got some questions:

1. Is it normal that on a Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U with 16GB of RAM (using 6 cores and 8GB) the Boot of the Vmware needs needs more then 5 minutes? How fast is it normally?
2. If i resize the view from 800x600 -> 1280x768 it is getting much slower to work. Is this normal?
3. I get the same error messages then "batmanbattleman" how can i fix this? Can't find any text like "Edhawk" describes in his post in my SSDT files.
4. Is there a way with more performance to run MacOS on my laptop?

Thanks a lot.

BR kami

 

[mgarst]

Hi, I managed to put macOS Sonoma on VMWare, but I have an internet related problem. It's not working for some reason. How can I solve this problem?

 

[Edhawk]

You need to add the correct Ethernet kext to your OpenCore setup so the Ethernet connection is enabled.

Which Ethernet controller does your system use?

 

[mgarst]

You need to add the correct Ethernet kext to your OpenCore setup so the Ethernet connection is enabled.

Which Ethernet controller does your system use?

Does this work for the WI-FI adapter? Since I don't have a direct connection to the internet by wire.

 

[Edhawk]

No, you need different kexts for the WiFi/BT card to work. Different makes of WiFi/BT card require different kexts, some makes/models don't work in macOS.

Which WiFi/BT card do you have installed?

This also assumes the VM will pass the WiFi/BT signal from the Virtualised OS.

 

[Kasherpete]

Wow, this is all great work, I was actually able to get my VM running with this guide. However, it seems to for some reason ignore my VMX file....would anyone have any idea why? I'm trying to patch iServices, and nothing I do seems to have any effect. I'm setting the serial number, device ID, MLB, ROM etc. in the VMX file, but the VM still returns a different serial.

 

[val981]

I could install on Ryzen 5 7600x but it's terribly slow + make my computer lag a lot during startup, and i have no ethernet recognized.
Any fix ?

 

[Kasherpete]

I could install on Ryzen 5 7600x but it's terribly slow + make my computer lag a lot during startup, and i have no ethernet recognized.
Any fix ?

It's gonna be really laggy without a supported GPU, this is something all MacOS VMs require. I don't have a supported GPU either, so hardware acceleration is not available. And for Ethernet, set it to NAT instead of bridged.

 

[TomGl]

After a lot of tries, finally installed MacOS Sonoma (on Ryzen 7 5800X3D and RTX 4080). MacOS doesn't feel very smooth (feels like slow old computer), but its usable.

1. Downloaded files provided in original post
2. Installed VMware Player 17.0.1
3. Configured VM as mentioned in original post (with Opencore 4 cores), and added 8gb ram (16gb didn't make a difference)
also added these 2 lines to the .vmx file (felt like it made performance bit better but maybe no difference):

ulm.disableMitigations = "TRUE"
smc.version = "0"

4. Started the VM installation - First you will see white text going, that's all good, wait for a while (for me 30min to 1h) even if the text is the same and looks like it's going nowhere.
Then you will see apple logo and then options to access disk utility etc, erase the disk and start MacOS install. White text will go again for quite a while, just leave it. After some time I noticed that setup changes and displays 4 icons (opencore, your disk, install Sonoma, Recovery), first time I didn't manage to click anything and it continued with the white text. After some time again those 4 icons appeared, I clicked on my disk/partition (called MacOS), then again white text and I guess I got to the next step of installation process (GUI interface etc.).
Also one time when I first saw those 4 icons I disconnected the .iso and still finished the installation. So just let the installation process run for good time.

Tried to install system updates, first 2 vm's got broken, 3rd installed updates successfully.

Next thing I noticed that installation process is like 100x faster using Opencore 4 cores compared to Opencore 8 cores (which comes with unlocker).
When I was first testing installation it didn't work with 4 core .vmdk, it only worked with 8 core. Idk why. Then again it didn't work at all, then it worked with 4 core, etc. I don't know why there was such inconsistency.

Anyway, installed everything with 4 core, tried to shut down and replace to 8 core (also changed vm settings to 8 core) but it looks like it will not work as the boot is taking now more than 1h already and it's slow. (attached screenshot mby that helps)

 

[UNAGAMI_5584]

I have an AMD RYZEN 5 3500U and I am running into an issue.
It would boot and give me two boot options, one named "opencore" and the other named "install macos 14 beta" , I always use install macos 14 but it always gives me a black screen, I have defined it to 4 cores and 4 gb of ram.
Please help!

 

[Edhawk]

You need to provide a lot more information about your system before anyone can help you boot macOS.

 

[Aledky91]

Hello

An installation without virtualization will always be better, right? Is there much difference in performance with a native installation and a virtualized installation?

I have had hackintosh for a long time but a few months ago I replaced it with linuxmint (I needed the androidstudio virtual machine).

All my hardware is compatible with hackintosh Ryzen 5600x + RX 6800XT.

Is it possible to make a virtual installation very similar to the native one? I need macOs to develop with XCode.

I can install macOS again and have dual boot but I only need macOs for xCode.

 

[Edhawk]

Yes there is a difference, the bare-metal installation of macOS would be smoother, have full graphics acceleration and full use of the system memory and all cores from the CPU.

No the virtual machine will never be as smooth or capable as the bare-metal installation.

Using a spare SSD or NVMe drive for macOS, so you can dual boot macOS and Linux Mint would be the best option, even if all you need is Xcode.

 

[Pedrono]

Look through the SSDT's you have added to the /EFI/OC/ACPI folder.

Search for an SSDT that contains [PSTA] device, with [_STA] @0001 #002D:

This SSDT is causing the error. I would remove the SSDT from your setup and see if that helps.

what is a ssdt?