EC2 Mac
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# On your laptop, connect to the Mac instance with SSH (similar to Linux instances)
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ssh -i
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# On the Mac
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# Set a password for ec2-user
sudo passwd ec2-user
# Enable VNC Server (thanks [email protected] for the feedback and tests)
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart \
-activate -configure -access -on \
-configure -allowAccessFor -specifiedUsers \
-configure -users ec2-user \
-configure -restart -agent -privs -all
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart \
-configure -access -on -privs -all -users ec2-user
exit
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# On your laptop
# Create a SSH tunnel to VNC and connect from a vnc client using user ec2-user and the password you defined.
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ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 -C -N -i
# open another terminal
open vnc://localhost
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# On the mac, resize the APFS container to match EBS volume size
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PDISK=$(diskutil list physical external | head -n1 | cut -d” ” -f1)
APFSCONT=$(diskutil list physical external | grep “Apple_APFS” | tr -s ” ” | cut -d” ” -f8)
sudo diskutil repairDisk $PDISK
# Accept the prompt with “y”, then paste this command
sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer $APFSCONT 0