macOS Tahoe VM images (OpenCore/QEMU), Apple-ID compatible, VNC

Add a macOS image pipeline mirroring the Windows one: unattended install,
generalization and user creation, driven end to end in QEMU on a KVM host.

lib/images/macos:
- makeOpenCore: OSX-KVM OpenCore ESP with a config.plist rewritten per image —
  SMBIOS model + serial/MLB (macserial) + UUID + ROM=en0 MAC (built-in NIC pinned
  to PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x12,0x0)) for Apple ID / iMessage / App Store; boot disk;
  OpenCore self-entry hidden. ident.nix derives MAC+UUID from a seed so the NixOS
  module and CLI know the NIC MAC at eval time.
- makeImage: one QEMU session driven by vm-driver.py (QMP + screenshot settle
  detection + OCR of the menu bar) — boots the recovery via OpenCore, opens
  Terminal (Ctrl-F2 -> Utilities -> Terminal), types the bootstrap command;
  vmix-install.sh erases the disk as APFS, lays down the host-extracted installer
  app skeleton + a byte-exact SharedSupport.dmg (raw disk mapped to that byte range
  of the pkg, dd'd in — Recovery's xar truncates an 18 GB member), runs
  startosinstall with the vmix agent pkg. OpenCore is then copied into the image's
  ESP so it boots standalone with OVMF.
- customizeImage / templates: boot the image with a FAT-then-HFS+ VMIX volume; the
  vmix agent (LaunchDaemon) runs a script as root, records status and powers off —
  the macOS counterpart of Windows Audit Mode. generalize creates the admin user +
  auto-login (kcpassword), suppresses Setup Assistant, sets hostname/timezone,
  grows APFS, and assigns a fresh SMBIOS identity. Templates: noUpdates,
  performance, remoteAccess (ssh + screen sharing).
- fetchRecovery: Apple recovery BaseSystem, retried until the pinned Tahoe build
  (osrecovery load-balances Sequoia/Tahoe during the rollout). makeAgentPkg builds
  a distribution flat pkg on Linux (xar+bom+cpio) for startosinstall --installpackage.

CLI: vmix build/copy/run for macOS (run --macos --vnc, reads the image's MAC from
its ESP), and a `vmix macserial` helper. NixOS module: disks.os.file carrying
_vmixOsType="macos" auto-enables the macOS QEMU profile (AppleSMC+OSK, Skylake
CPU spoof, AHCI system disk, VMware SVGA, pinned NIC); macos.{enable,cpu,mac}.

Status: proven through the installer prepare phase (SharedSupport.dmg mounts,
version 26.6.2 read, SU catalog loads). Two blockers remain, documented in
lib/images/macos/README.md: (1) startosinstall's OSISVerifyBaseSystemOperation
rejects the byte-identical plain-UDIF SharedSupport as "pkgdmg missing a footer"
in this Tahoe recovery/VM; (2) Apple's CDN unreliably serves the Tahoe recovery
during rollout (self-hosting the verified BaseSystem is the robust fix).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XsESshRCoBoUVWV9qKURUF
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{ pkgs, lib, system, ... }:
let
upstream = (lib.importJSON ./upstream.json).${system};
macos = rec {
inherit upstream;
qemu = import ./helpers/qemu.nix { inherit pkgs lib; };
ident = import ./helpers/ident.nix { inherit lib; };
macserial = import ./helpers/macserial.nix { inherit pkgs upstream; };
fetchRecovery = import ./helpers/fetchRecovery.nix { inherit pkgs upstream; };
installerPayload = import ./helpers/installerPayload.nix { inherit pkgs lib; };
makeOpenCore = import ./helpers/makeOpenCore.nix { inherit pkgs lib upstream macserial qemu; };
makeVmixVolume = import ./helpers/makeVmixVolume.nix { inherit pkgs lib; };
makeAgentPkg = import ./helpers/makeAgentPkg.nix { inherit pkgs lib; };
installBootloader = import ./helpers/installBootloader.nix { inherit pkgs lib; };
vmixReadback = import ./helpers/vmix-readback.nix { inherit pkgs lib; };
vmDriver = ./helpers/vm-driver.py;
makeImage = import ./helpers/makeImage.nix {
inherit pkgs lib qemu ident installerPayload makeOpenCore makeVmixVolume makeAgentPkg installBootloader vmixReadback vmDriver;
};
customizeImage = import ./helpers/customizeImage.nix {
inherit pkgs lib qemu ident makeVmixVolume makeOpenCore installBootloader vmixReadback vmDriver;
};
customizeImageFold = builtins.foldl' customizeImage;
templates = import ./templates { inherit pkgs lib; };
};
tahoe = import ./tahoe { inherit pkgs lib system macos; };
# Recursively add .generalize to every image leaf (same shape as windows)
addGeneralize = val:
if val ? _vmixOsType then
val // { generalize = args:
let
templateArgs = builtins.removeAttrs args [ "vncDisplay" ];
displayArgs = lib.optionalAttrs (args ? vncDisplay) { inherit (args) vncDisplay; };
in macos.customizeImage val (macos.templates.generalize templateArgs // displayArgs);
}
else if builtins.isAttrs val then
lib.mapAttrs (_: addGeneralize) val
else val;
in
macos // {
images = addGeneralize { inherit tahoe; };
}