I built my first bare-metal Hackintosh earlier in the week, feel free to check it out here.
That was really a trial run for my ultimate goal of a dual-head workstation with 10.15 and Windows 10 on KVM. I'm still struggling with learning KVM as I'm a VMWare guy at work, so it's what I know.
I decided to see if I could get MacOS booted in ESXi on my home lab server as a next step to feeling it out under a hypervisor. Since ESXi has "native" support for MacOS (on Apple metal or with an unlocker) I figured it would be an easier first step.
The guts of it all. Wires could be prettier.
Hardware:
- AMD Threadripper 1950x OpenCore @ 4Ghz
- 64GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200 DDR4
- Drained, cleaned and refilled Enermax Liqtech II TR4 360
- EVGA GTX 1080ti FTW 3 hybrid (for Windows gaming VM)
- MSI Gaming X 1080 (for Windows ArcGIS terminal server workstation)
- Adaptec 72405 24 channel RAID controller
- Intel X540 10Gb NIC SFP+
- 3 x NVME SSDs standalone, 4x SATA SSDs (RAID), 5x 4TB HDDs (RAID), 2x 2TB HDDs (RAID)
Software:
- ESXi 6.7 Update 3b
- vCenter 6.7 Update 3b OVA
- ESXi unlocker 3
- AMD OSX prebuilt Success' href='/2020/12/install-macos-mojave-on-supported-pc.html'>Mojave .VMDK
- Various VMs with W10, Server 2019, Ubuntu, etc.
Future plans:
- Build vanilla Success' href='/2020/12/install-macos-catalina-on-supported-pc.html'>Catalina VM from scratch
- Buy a single slot Radeon Pro GPU and fight to the death with PCIe passthrough
I built the Success' href='/2020/12/install-macos-mojave-on-supported-pc.html'>Mojave VM in Fusion on my MBP 16" but never booted it (due to AMD kernel). Once I got it built the way I wanted and made the necessary .VMX edits I just uploaded it to the ESXi host. I am very appreciative of the prebuilt .VMDK from AMD OSX, but I plan to build my own vanilla one from scratch using OpenCore.
With that under my belt I'll return to the ultimate prize of the dual-head workstation on KVM with my 9900k box.
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