patevs/macos-vm

Instructions and script to help you create a VirtualBox VM running MacOS.

MacOS VM

Instructions and script to help you create a VirtualBox VM running MacOS.

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Links & Resources

• macos-virtualbox Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

• macos-virtualbox-vm Instructions and script to help you create a VirtualBox VM running macOS.
• runMacOSinVirtualBox Run macOS 10.16 Big Sur (and other versions) in VirtualBox on macOS.

• OSX-KVM Run macOS on QEMU/KVM.
• macOS-Simple-KVM Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.

• fastmac Get a MacOS or Linux shell, for free, in around 2 minutes.

• dev-setup macOS development environment setup.

• gibMacOS Py2/py3 script that can download macOS components direct from Apple.

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Dependencies

bash coreutils gzip unzip wget xxd dmg2img virtualbox

• VirtualBox ≥ 6.1.6, though versions as low as 5.2 may work.
• GNU Bash ≥ 4.3, on Windows run through Cygwin or WSL - see NEM
• GNU coreutils ≥ 8.22, GNU gzip ≥ 1.5, Info-ZIP unzip ≥ v6.0, GNU wget ≥ 1.14, xxd ≥ 1.11
• dmg2img ≥ 1.6.5, on Cygwin the package is not available through the package manager so the script downloads it automatically.

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Usage

# Download and run installer script
bash ./run.sh

If running on an AMD based system, execute the following command from an elevated prompt:

VBoxManage modifyvm "macOS" --cpu-profile "Intel Xeon X5482 3.20GHz"

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Project Structure

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├── .husky           # Husky configuration
├── .commitlintrc    # Commitlint configuration
├── .editorconfig    # Editor configuration
├── .gitignore       # Git ignore configuration
├── .np-config.json  # NPM publish (np) configuration
├── LICENSE          # Project LICENSE
├── package.json     # NPM package configuration
├── README.md        # Project README
└── run.sh           # Main run script

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