installdemo Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 The 'twist' is that it's running on top of ESXi with GPU Passthru with no loaders and no kext. And Photoshop sees and can use the GPU. Whatever your Hackintosh plans; Don't give up! I didn't. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/351320-monterey-with-radeon-rx-6600-with-a-twist/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
etorix Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Contrary to RX 5500-5700 and 6800-6900, RX 660 were reportedly not affected by the graphic issues in 12.3. What is the purpose of running macOS on top of ESXi rather than bare metal? Are you running another OS in parallel? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/351320-monterey-with-radeon-rx-6600-with-a-twist/#findComment-2779277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Hackintosh can be made with a special bootloader like Clover or OpenCore. Is the ESXi to be the new way to launch macOS on non-Apple hardware? Or this is just emulator for a work? You may imagine that you have macOS but it is only dream. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/351320-monterey-with-radeon-rx-6600-with-a-twist/#findComment-2779280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavo Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 ESXi has always been able to boot macOS directly with some modifications. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/351320-monterey-with-radeon-rx-6600-with-a-twist/#findComment-2779296 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 4 hours ago, Pavo said: ESXi has always been able to boot macOS directly with some modifications. And why we want hackintosh? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/351320-monterey-with-radeon-rx-6600-with-a-twist/#findComment-2779303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
etorix Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 16 hours ago, Pavo said: ESXi has always been able to boot macOS directly with some modifications. Which is good to know. But using a hypervisior comes with overhead, restriction to hardware that is supported by the hypervisor (quite a stringent matter with respect to passthrough…), and the whole point of a hypervisor is normally to run multiple OS in parallel. So curious minds would like to know more about the use case. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/351320-monterey-with-radeon-rx-6600-with-a-twist/#findComment-2779311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavo Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 (edited) 10 hours ago, etorix said: Which is good to know. But using a hypervisior comes with overhead, restriction to hardware that is supported by the hypervisor (quite a stringent matter with respect to passthrough…), and the whole point of a hypervisor is normally to run multiple OS in parallel. So curious minds would like to know more about the use case. The overhead is less than 1% and not noticeable by the user. Restrictions are only the ones that are on macOS in bare metal as well. Its actually better to run macOS as a VM on AMD hardware since it doesn't require any kernel patches as it does on bare metal on AMD hardware. I run macOS as a VM on my AMD Threadripper system and it works flawless with GPU, Wifi/BT, NVMe and USB Controllers passed through, but I use Linux host OS and KVM+Qemu instead of ESXi which still requires a boot loader such as OpenCore or Clover. Edited April 3, 2022 by Pavo 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/351320-monterey-with-radeon-rx-6600-with-a-twist/#findComment-2779350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hejiajin Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 (edited) On 4/4/2022 at 2:48 AM, Pavo said: The overhead is less than 1% and not noticeable by the user. Restrictions are only the ones that are on macOS in bare metal as well. Its actually better to run macOS as a VM on AMD hardware since it doesn't require any kernel patches as it does on bare metal on AMD hardware. I run macOS as a VM on my AMD Threadripper system and it works flawless with GPU, Wifi/BT, NVMe and USB Controllers passed through, but I use Linux host OS and KVM+Qemu instead of ESXi which still requires a boot loader such as OpenCore or Clover. Could you please provide your vmx file share? I recently tried ESXI install Monterey, referring to this tutorial (tutorial), I extracted the vbios of the rx 6600 xt graphics card, it loaded fine on the first few uses, and was able to connect to the monitor via hdmi. But on later use, I don't know why it doesn't load anymore and doesn't output to the display. Maybe it's because I modified some parameters of the vmx file, so I hope to get a reference from your successfully run vmx file. Thanks! Edited April 18, 2023 by hejiajin Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/351320-monterey-with-radeon-rx-6600-with-a-twist/#findComment-2803772 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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