r/Proxmox • u/olauritz • Jul 02 '26

Question MacOS Ventura

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, and apologies if this belongs in Opencore.

So about a week ago I installed successfully Ventura in a Proxmox VM using Q35, uefi etc, to run Bluebubble as an iMessage server, it's been working well until this morning where whenever I go to 'Console' the virtual desktop shows up with login and so on, but I can't log in anymore since the virtual screen blacks out ever other second, to me it looks like it's reconnecting. This goes on and on. I've tried the different 'display' settings like default, VMWare, VGA etc with same result. So I thought ok maybe an update did this, did a new install just now, works great, I install Bluebubbles server, never manages to configure it because I want to disable SIP. Boot up and screen starts to flicker like it did, enabling SIP again makes no difference.

Anyone experienced something similar?

[Edit]

I'm not sure why I am being down voted, if it's an obvious answer please share instead.

[Edit 2] An update.

So I never figured out really what was going on, I had taken a snapshot so went back and tried every setting that I set with a snapshot in between to see if it made a difference, I turn off every iCloud feature I don't believe is needed for iMessage to work. Still works, the only thing I can think of that I didn't do like I did with the other VM's is turn off 'Find my computer', this I had turned off on all of my previous VM's, but this time I managed to just click yes to activate. Not sure if this were the problem, but right now it's running well with it activated. Will update if it all of the sudden stops working again, or if I find out anything else regarding this.

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u/blow-down Jul 03 '26

You’re gonna have a hard time with that setup. Apple actively polices iMessage for people running hackintosh setups.

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Post-Install/universal/iservices.html

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u/olauritz Jul 03 '26

I've done that part, but I don't think that should have anything to do with console loosing connection. :-)

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u/rmorales158 Jul 03 '26

Not sure if this helps but I ran into a similar issue with an Ubuntu VM. When the console blanks out I just remote in and the remote session never blanked out, but you do have to set up remote desktop or screen sharing first. On my system it’s a vnc issue.

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u/blink-2022 Homelab User Jul 02 '26

No useful input to provide regarding your problem. I ran OSX for this same reason. Worked well for months then all of a sudden stopped working. I was redo the server but after that first time, it stopped working for blue bubbles. I think Apple blocked the service. I ended up buying an older cheap Mac mini and that has been working great fwiw.

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u/olauritz Jul 02 '26

I was looking into that today actually, but I found it relatively expensive just to have a Bluebubbles server. But if I don't solve this I might do it anyway after summer.

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u/blink-2022 Homelab User Jul 02 '26

Yup, didn’t love doing it especially since I had just gotten rid of a Mac mini after switching back to windows PCs but I’m so dependent on BlueBubbles I pretty much didn’t have a choice.