geerlingguy/macos-virtualbox-vm

High Sierra plans

mikemadden42 opened this issue · 6 comments

mikemadden42 commented

Are there any plans to support macOS High Sierra (10.13.x)?

mico commented

Experienced problems with making High Sierra image:

$ asr restore -source /Volumes/install_app/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/install_build -noprompt -noverify -erase
	Validating target...done
	Validating source...
Could not recognize "/Volumes/install_app/BaseSystem.dmg" as an image file

It has only packages dir with content:

192:~ mico$ ls -la /Volumes/install_app/Packages/
total 9202728
drwxr-xr-x  8 mico  staff         272 19 янв 22:04 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 mico  staff         170 19 янв 15:44 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 mico  staff       11596 19 янв 22:07 BridgeOSBrain.pkg
-rw-r--r--  1 mico  staff       11591 19 янв 22:07 BridgeOSUpdateCustomer.pkg
-rw-r--r--  1 mico  staff  4450987435 19 янв 22:07 Core.pkg
-rw-r--r--  1 mico  staff    59301202 19 янв 22:07 EmbeddedOSFirmware.pkg
-rw-r--r--  1 mico  staff   200801508 19 янв 22:07 FirmwareUpdate.pkg
-rw-r--r--  1 mico  staff      678176 19 янв 22:07 OSInstall.mpkg

Will continue investigation.

mikemadden42 commented

Thanks @mico

Please let me know if you make progress with the High Sierra image.

ibaaj commented

This worked for me : https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/307103/211338
Then edited startup.nsh ("edit startup.nsh" command) with "FS1:"macOS Install Data\Locked Files\Boot Files\boot.efi"" when I was in UEFI shell

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nlemoine commented

For those who struggled with installing Mac OS High Sierra on VirtualBox, a very detailed step by step article that will guide you through the whole process: http://tobiwashere.de/2017/10/virtualbox-how-to-create-a-macos-high-sierra-vm-to-run-on-a-mac-host-system/

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geerlingguy commented

The plan is to merge #39 after the rest of the small changes requested are made. It seems to work well!

geerlingguy commented

Consolidating discussion into older issue #28.