Tag: osx

Looking to resize an existing qcow2 or raw data volume with QEMU?

I had to do the same thing and went through some trouble in trying to do this. My first idea was to use GParted and boot from the live-cd iso to extend the apfs partition. However, it turns out that GParted does not support apfs (yet?).

First, you’ll need to expand the disk space available to the VM. Depending on the disk format, you can use:

• qcow2: qemu-img resize image.qcow2 +20G
• lvm: lvextend -L /dev/lvmpool/vm +20G

Now you can expand the apfs container from inside the OSX VM. Simply find out the identifier of your partition:

/usr/sbin/diskutil info / | awk '/Part of Whole/ {print $4}'

And use that identifier together with this command:

/usr/sbin/diskutil apfs resizeContainer /dev/{identifier} 0

This will expand to use up all available free disk space.

Apple’s Content Caching is not available when running OSX in a VM.

It seems Apple is detecting if it’s running inside a VM:

$ sudo /usr/bin/AssetCacheManagerUtil activate
AssetCacheManagerUtil[] Failed to activate content caching: Error Domain=ACSMErrorDomain Code=5 "virtual machine"...

To get around this, you can patch the kernel to remove the cpuid features check:

• First disable SIP
• Next: sudo mount -uw /
• kernel_autopatcher.py /System/Library/Kernels/kernel
• sudo kextcache -i /

Reference: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/master/reversing-notes.md