VM / macOSAMD

Description 

 This VM is for running macOS via dedicated hardware so I have something faster than my laptop. 

 Configuration 

 Resources 

 

 

 

 Hostname 

 CPU 

 Memory 

 

 

 

 

 MiMac 

 12 vCPU 

 16GB 

 

 

 

 Storage 

 

 

 

 Disk 

 Controller 

 Size 

 Purpose 

 

 

 

 

 local-zfs:vm-100-disk-1 

 ide0 

 1M 

 NVRAM 

 

 

 local-zfs:vm-100-disk-0 

 virtio 

 200MB 

 EFI boot loader 

 

 

 local-zfs:vm-100-disk-2 

 virtio 

 1TB 

 boot disk 

 

 

 

 PCI Passthrough 

 

 

 

 Name 

 BDF 

 Settings 

 

 

 

 

 Fresco USB 3.0 Controller 

 04:00 

 n/a 

 

 

 AMD RX 560 GPU 

 08:00 

 pcie=1,x-vga=1 

 

 

 Intel 10GbE SFP+ NIC 

 06:00 

 n/a 

 

 

 

 Networking 

 Interfaces 

 

 

 

 ID 

 Name 

 Bridge 

 IP Address 

 Comments 

 

 

 

 

 eno0 

 n/a 

 vmbr0 

 10.0.2.5/21 (DHCP) 

 1GbE 

 

 

 eno1 

 n/a 

 -- 

 10.0.10.5/24 (manual) 

 10GbE 

 

 

 

 Configuration 

 Because we want macOS to route all traffic destined for blackbox.hermz over our 10GbE network we need to adjust our routing table to redirect all traffic to LXC / Routeman first. 

 Knowing that blackbox.hermz has ip addresses 10.0.2.2 , and 10.0.2.3 and all of its services run with 10.0.4.x we can easily setup some updated routes. 

 # 10.0.2.2 (main interface) and 10.0.2.3 (admin interface)

ip route add 10.0.2.2/31 dev en1 via 10.0.10.6

# 10.0.4.x (services running on blackbox)

ip route add 10.0.4.0/24 dev en1 via 10.0.10.6

 

 This works perfectly except it isn't persistent.