QEMU will create a larger image than the one you specify as you can see in the. The command above creates a virtual disk name mac_os.qcow2 in the qcow2 format with an estimated size of 64GB. qemu-img create -f qcow2 mac_os.qcow2 64G. Use the qemu-img utility to create the virtual hard disk that will be used for installing the operating system.At this point QEMU and KVM are mostly capable of supporting OS X (up to Sierra), and the largest portion of the effort still required lies with edk2/ovmf (start with my fork. FINAL UPDATE (): I no longer have the cycles to work on this project. Somlo See the old version of this page here. Running Mac OS X as a QEMU/KVM Guest Gabriel L.This is just an example of how to use it. This is just an example of creating a Virtual Disk for qemu and then executing a PowerPC Virtual Machine after defining a CPU, ROM type, and a path to an installation CD. Run the VM: qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -boot d -M mac99 -m 512 -hda macimage.img -cdrom path/to/disk/image.If any of you want to try this, and have a nice fancy frontend to qemu, check out UTM: Unsure if performance s the same/worse as compiling from …Dec 13, 2018Jan 10, 2021Nov 07, 2018Sep 05, 2016Create a start script.