A: Your macOS installer might be incomplete or corrupted, please download it again from Apple.Q: I've pressed Continue to start the installation and nothing happens for minutes.A: You've to press enter in the terminal after the installer restarts.

Q: After starting the installation the VM restarts and I see the installer again.

If existing, start Recovery by entering boot.efi. So try to change the current volume by entering fs4: (or fs5:, fs6:, etc.), then enter cd TAB (where TAB is used to auto-complete the randomly-named sub-dir), then look for boot.efi in that dir. At the following EFI shell prompt try to find the relevant volume holding boot.efi in a single randomly-named sub-directory of the root directory.

A: Start the VM as usual and be ready to press CMD+C when you see Trying to find a bootable device.

A: There is currently no 3D acceleration, therefore some applications do not work.

Q: Applications such as Apple Maps do not work as expected.

Within this image you can find the app that should be copied to /Applications.

A: Execute the script installinstallmacos.py - this produces a dmg file which you can open.

* clean : delete generated images and downloaded files * patch : add APFS drivers to VM EFI to boot * installer: create macOS installer image * all : run everything needed (check, installer, vm, patch, run, stop, eject) Sub directory, where the VM will be stored Root directory, where the VM will be stored Customizing your buildĪdditionally the following parameters can be customized with environment variables: variable name Starting VM 'macOS-VM ' (3 minutes in the VM). after installer restarted).Įjecting installer DVD for VM 'macOS-VM '. Creating image '/Users/awi/VirtualBox VMs/macOS-VM.dmg ' (around 20 seconds, version 14.2.2, will need sudo).Ĭreating iso '/Users/awi/VirtualBox VMs/ ' (around 25 seconds).Ĭreating VM HDD '/Users/awi/VirtualBox VMs/macOS-VM/macOS-VM.vdi ' (around 5 seconds).Ĭreating VM 'macOS-VM ' (around 2 seconds).Īdding APFS drivers to EFI in '/Users/awi/VirtualBox VMs/macOS-VM/macOS-VM.vdi ' (around 5 seconds).

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