Re: [PATCH v12 15/15] hw/vmapple/vmapple: Add vmapple machine type

[Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>]

On 2024/11/30 0:25, Phil Dennis-Jordan wrote:
> From: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
> 
> Apple defines a new "vmapple" machine type as part of its proprietary
> macOS Virtualization.Framework vmm. This machine type is similar to the
> virt one, but with subtle differences in base devices, a few special
> vmapple device additions and a vastly different boot chain.
> 
> This patch reimplements this machine type in QEMU. To use it, you
> have to have a readily installed version of macOS for VMApple,
> run on macOS with -accel hvf, pass the Virtualization.Framework
> boot rom (AVPBooter) in via -bios, pass the aux and root volume as pflash
> and pass aux and root volume as virtio drives. In addition, you also
> need to find the machine UUID and pass that as -M vmapple,uuid= parameter:
> 
> $ qemu-system-aarch64 -accel hvf -M vmapple,uuid=0x1234 -m 4G \
>      -bios /System/Library/Frameworks/Virtualization.framework/Versions/A/Resources/AVPBooter.vmapple2.bin
>      -drive file=aux,if=pflash,format=raw \
>      -drive file=root,if=pflash,format=raw \
>      -drive file=aux,if=none,id=aux,format=raw \
>      -device vmapple-virtio-aux,drive=aux \
>      -drive file=root,if=none,id=root,format=raw \
>      -device vmapple-virtio-root,drive=root
> 
> With all these in place, you should be able to see macOS booting
> successfully.
> 
> Known issues:
>   - Keyboard and mouse/tablet input is laggy. The reason for this is
>     either that macOS's XHCI driver is broken when the device/platform
>     does not support MSI/MSI-X, or there's some unfortunate interplay
>     with Qemu's XHCI implementation in this scenario.
>   - Currently only macOS 12 guests are supported. The boot process for
>     13+ will need further investigation and adjustment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
> Co-authored-by: Phil Dennis-Jordan <phil@philjordan.eu>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Dennis-Jordan <phil@philjordan.eu>
> Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>

Finally I confirmed macOS 12 boots on M2 MacBook Air. Thank you for 
keeping working on this series!

Tested-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>