From 135bbe8825281cef4596de949968edd6f44e86fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: grossmj <grossmj@gns3.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:37:09 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] Check if HAXM support is installed on macOS. Ref #1242.

---
 gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py b/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py
index e3e14bf9..3aa4390f 100644
--- a/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py
+++ b/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py
@@ -1700,8 +1700,13 @@ class QemuVM(BaseNode):
                 else:
                     return False
             elif sys.platform.startswith("darwin"):
-                # TODO: support for macOS
-                raise QemuError("HAXM acceleration is not yet supported on macOS")
+                process = yield from asyncio.create_subprocess_shell("kextstat | grep com.intel.kext.intelhaxm")
+                yield from process.wait()
+                if process.returncode != 0:
+                    if require_hardware_accel:
+                        raise QemuError("HAXM acceleration support is not installed on this host (com.intel.kext.intelhaxm extension not loaded)")
+                    else:
+                        return False
             return True
         return False