[vfio-users] OVMF + OS X El Capitan + 970 gtx passthrough = Success

[Andrew Morgan]

Additionally, if anyone else is thinking about doing iOS development on
an ovmf OSX and is running into slow problems with the iOS simulator,
change the scale in Window>Scale to something like 50%.

Animations and transitions run much, much smoother.

Andrew Morgan

On 12/11/2015 07:56 AM, Zycorax Tokoroa wrote:
>> Interestingly enough, once I had installed over the original disk using
>> the OSX installer, it turned out all of my data was kept, applications
>> and everything, and even better, I was on 10.11.1!
>>
>> So running the installer over your original install essentially
>> downgrades OSX. Pretty neat!
> 
> This is a known thing about OSX, at least from those who have broken the
> OS enough to require a reinstallation. It is not exclusive of 10.11, but
> works as well with any version. Clearly, the data, preferences and
> similar of system apps that are version-specific cannot be downgraded,
> but the data itself is retained across installs unless the driver is
> explicitly reinitialized trough Disk Utility. Note that the recovery
> partition won't be downgraded, however.
> 
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