Callum A Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Hi! Just introducing myself to the forum with my setup and system specs MSI B150i i7 6700k 16GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance 4 x 512GB Kingston SSDNow drives in RAID 10 EVGA GTX 960 SSC I run Sierra 10.12.2 in a KVM through libvirt and absolutely love it! No hardware compatibility issues whatsoever running it this way, and I only lose about 5% of my CPU performance (at least according to Geekbench). I pass my GPU through to MacOS directly to benefit from all of the awesomeness that comes with a dedicated GPU. Feel free to ask any questions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smolderas Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Are iMessage and all other iCloud services running properly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum A Posted January 6, 2017 Author Share Posted January 6, 2017 Are iMessage and all other iCloud services running properly? Yep! Once I'd generated the UUID it was all happy and working fine. I'm using a virtualised Intel E1000 Gbit adapter :-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smolderas Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 I wish I had a CPU with VT-d, so I could also passthrough my GPU... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum A Posted January 6, 2017 Author Share Posted January 6, 2017 I wish I had a CPU with VT-d, so I could also passthrough my GPU... The i3 6100 is a very capable CPU - I've used it for MacOS on KVM before and it worked flawlessly. You can pick it up for about £100 GBP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smolderas Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 The i3 6100 is a very capable CPU - I've used it for MacOS on KVM before and it worked flawlessly. You can pick it up for about £100 GBP I have an i7 2600k @4.4 ghz. I'm more than happy with the performance. My next machine will definitely be a VM host though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum A Posted January 6, 2017 Author Share Posted January 6, 2017 Hold out for Kaby Lake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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