macOS Hackintosh on Hyper-V

This repository aims to provide support for macOS on Hyper-V

WARNING: Intel "i" series CPU's ONLY are currently supported. Xeon, Pentioum, Celeron and AMD CPU's are not yet supported by the Hyper-V drivers developed by Acidanthera.

Current State Of Support:

• Mac OS X 10.0 - 10.3 are PowerPC based and cannot be installed
• macOS 10.4 Tiger (End of Life)
• macOS 10.5 Leopard (End of Life)
• macOS 10.6 Snow Leopard (End of Life)
• macOS 10.7 Lion (End of Life)
• macOS 10.8 Mountain Lion (End of Life)
• macOS 10.9 Mavericks (End of Life)
• macOS 10.10 Yosemite (End of Life)
• macOS 10.11 El Capitan (End of Life)
• macOS 10.12 Sierra (End of Life)
• macOS 10.13 High Sierra (End of Life)
• macOS 10.14 Mojave (End of Life)
• macOS 10.15 Catalina (End of Life)
• macOS 11 Big Sur (Est End of Life Nov 2023)
• macOS 12 Monterey
• macOS 13 Ventura
• macOS 14 Sonoma
• macOS 15 ???? (Will this have Intel Support?)
• Audio Support
• Power Management Support
• Graphics Acceleration Support
• Battery Information Passthrough
• AMD Not Yet Supported

*** NOTICE ***

This is currently at Beta stage but is usable.

Please pay special attention to the installation instructions linked below.

Hyper-V Recommended Settings:

Model:	Minimum	Optimal
CPU	2 virtual cores	4+ virtual cores
GPU	128 mb graphics ram	1+ gb graphics ram
RAM	4 gb (10.15 & Older) 8 gb (11+)	8+ gb
SSD	30 gb	60+ gb
WiFi	Default Switch	Default Switch
Batt	N/A	N/A
USB	N/A	N/A

Instruction Guides

Chapter 1) Installation Guide

Chapter 2) Quirks & Fixes

What works

• OpenCore Bootloader
• Trackpad
• TouchScreen / Stylus (Hyper-v passes as mouse input)
• Keyboard
• macOS Installer
• macOS Recovery
• macOS Web Recovery
• Hyper-V Time Sync (with utility)
• Hyper-V File Sync (with utility)
• Hyper-V Heartbeat (with utility)
• VESA graphics limited to 1024x768 resolution (non-accelerated)
• Battery Information Passthrough when macOS on Hyper-V is run on laptops

What doesn't work

• Graphic Acceleration
• Resolution adjustment (limited to 1024x768 only)
• Audio
• Power Management
• Sleep / Wake
• SDcard
• USB passthrough
• FileVault (Untested)
• Bluetooth passthrough
• AMD Not Supported yet

Credits

Thanks to @acidanthera for creating the software, kexts, and patches, required to even begin to make this possible. I take no credit for any of this development and only seek to make an easy to use method for getting macOS running on Hyper-V. You can find original sources at the following links: OpenCore Bootloader & Hyper-V Support.