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Discussion on: Running MacOS on Windows 10 with WSL2, KVM and QEMU

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Kshitij Nigam

Wow this post is so good, i spent a good chunk of time and was finally able to install catalina, updating it to BIGSUR as we speak.
I am new to kvm and unfortunately the qemu documentation is really crap.
May be someone can guide me:
1) how can i connect a usb device to the macos running
2) what is a nice setting for CPU, right now i just removed the thread option and added 6 cores, its not really fast but its ok

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Nicole Stevens

If you've followed this write up then your virtual disks should be in the folder so yes you can delete it and the bulk of the setup and used data is gone.

It's been a while since I tried this, been waiting for a new laptop so can check it out on Windows 11 but am sure had USB mouse and keyboard running and all was good. What's not working?

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Kshitij Nigam • Edited

so If i am to insert my iphone, I cant connect the usb ports, I see that in WSL2 in general its not possible however some people have used usb over TCP to do that.
Secondly for some reason. once i installed everything and tried to restart the machine it doesnt start anymore :(

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Kshitij Nigam

hey I found out the issue my cpu settings were incorrect :)

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Kshitij Nigam

oh also how do u uninstall this just by deleting osx simple kvm folder?