on a hunch, i applied this, and now macos boots (as 2 from acpi-tmr fits in the 1-4 range):
diff --git a/hw/acpi/core.c b/hw/acpi/core.c index f6d9ec4f13..05ff29b9d7 100644 --- a/hw/acpi/core.c +++ b/hw/acpi/core.c @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ static void acpi_pm_tmr_write(void *opaque, hwaddr addr, uint64_t val, static const MemoryRegionOps acpi_pm_tmr_ops = { .read = acpi_pm_tmr_read, .write = acpi_pm_tmr_write, - .valid.min_access_size = 4, + .valid.min_access_size = 1, .valid.max_access_size = 4, .endianness = DEVICE_LITTLE_ENDIAN, }; -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1886318 Title: Qemu after v5.0.0 breaks macos guests Status in QEMU: New Bug description: The Debian Sid 5.0-6 qemu-kvm package can no longer get further than the Clover bootloader whereas 5.0-6 and earlier worked fine. So I built qemu master from github and it has the same problem, whereas git tag v5.0.0 (or 4.2.1) does not, so something between v5.0.0 release and the last few days has caused the problem. Here's my qemu script, pretty standard macOS-Simple-KVM setup on a Xeon host: qemu-system-x86_64 \ -enable-kvm \ -m 4G \ -machine q35,accel=kvm \ -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=2,threads=2 \ -cpu Penryn,vendor=GenuineIntel,kvm=on,+sse3,+sse4.2,+aes,+xsave,+avx,+xsaveopt,+xsavec,+xgetbv1,+avx2,+bmi2,+smep,+bmi1,+fma,+movbe,+invtsc \ -device isa-applesmc,osk="ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc" \ -smbios type=2 \ -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file="/tmp/OVMF_CODE.fd" \ -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file="/tmp/macos_catalina_VARS.fd" \ -vga qxl \ -device ich9-ahci,id=sata \ -drive id=ESP,if=none,format=raw,file=/tmp/ESP.img \ -device ide-hd,bus=sata.2,drive=ESP \ -drive id=InstallMedia,format=raw,if=none,file=/tmp/BaseSystem.img \ -device ide-hd,bus=sata.3,drive=InstallMedia \ -drive id=SystemDisk,if=none,format=raw,file=/tmp/macos_catalina.img \ -device ide-hd,bus=sata.4,drive=SystemDisk \ -usb -device usb-kbd -device usb-mouse Perhaps something has changed in Penryn support recently, as that's required for macos? See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964247 Also on a related note, kernel 5.6/5.7 (on Debian) hard crashes the host when I try GPU passthrough on macos, whereas Ubuntu20/Win10 work fine - as does 5.5 kernel. See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=961676 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1886318/+subscriptions