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- By fusion71auRun Vanilla OS X El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra or Mojave in VirtualBox 5.x.x on a Windows Host
Following on from my previous guide on how to create a VMware virtual machine running Vanilla OS X El Capitan in Windows, I’ve decided to write a similar guide for creating a VirtualBox El Capitan VM.
The virtual machine should be useful for testing El Capitan and also for creating installers for use on a real machine/hackintosh.
There are other tutorials and videos on the net about running OS X on Windows machines using pre-made VMDK disk images but you can never guarantee what else is in there….
I’ve gathered info for this guide from several threads in the Multibooting and Virtualisation section of this forum and also the wider internet eg
@colt2 HOW TO: Create a bootable El Capitan ISO for VMware
@dsmccombs comment on faking Ivybridge Processor
@E:V:A http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55572430&postcount=6
@Tech Reviews video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7X07U63lwg.
VirtualBox Forum: Status of OSX on OSX
Requirements
Intel PC with four or more CPU cores running Windows 7 X64 or later OS (2 or more cores needed for OS X) 4GB or more RAM (2GB or more will be needed for OS X) Hard Disk with at least 40GB free for Virtual Machine Oracle VM VirtualBox v 5.0.34 Install OS X El Capitan app and Mac or Hack to prepare installation iso <-- Now, no longer necessary to have previous access to a Mac or Hack by building the Installer.app from scratch - see post#75 16GB or larger exFAT formatted USB stick to transfer El Capitan iso from Mac/Hack to Host PC
Prepare Installation ISO on your Mac or Hack
1. On your Mac or Hack, download 'Install OS X El Capitan.app' from the App Store into your Applications folder.
2. Download and unzip the CECI.tool (attached to this post) into your ~/Downloads folder. The commands in this executable script are shown below for informational purposes. Note: you will need approx 16GB of free space on your hard disk for the script to complete.
3. Open OS X terminal, then run the following commands to execute the script:
cd downloadschmod +x CECI.tool./CECI.tool 4. At the end of the process, you will have an El Capitan iso on your desktop - copy this onto an exFAT formatted USB for use on the PC Host later.
Create an El Capitan Virtual Machine in VirtualBox
1. Open the VirtualBox program and click the 'New' button to create a new VM.
2. Select Mac OS X and Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan (64 -bit) for Operating System type and version. I named my Virtual Machine 'El_Capitan', then clicked next...
3. Leave the Memory size at the recommended 2048 MB, then click next.
4. Choose to 'Create a virtual hard disk now', then click the create button.
5. For the hard disk file type, the default is VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) but I have selected VMDK for inter-operability with VMWare. Click next...
6. For Storage on physical hard disk, I have chosen the default Dynamically allocated (grows larger to a set limit as you need more disk space).
7. On the File location and size screen, you can set the location of the new virtual hard disk and its size - I recommend changing disk size to 40GB or larger. When you click the create button, you will now see your new VM in the VirtualBox main GUI.
8. Click the settings button on the Main Menu to tweak a few settings....
a. On the System/Motherboard tab in Boot Order, you can uncheck the Floppy Drive (who has these now?)
b. On the System/Processor tab, you can increase the allocated CPU cores to 2
c. On the Display tab, you can increase the allocated Video Memory to 128MB
d. On the Storage tab, click on the icon of the Optical Drive and select 'Choose Virtual Optical Disk File'.
Navigate and select the El Capitan ISO we created earlier...
e. Click the OK button to finalise the VM settings.
Patch El Capitan vbox configuration file with DMI Settings from a Mac
1. From the start menu, type cmd and click run as administrator to open an administrative command prompt.
2. Choose a Mac Model similar to your host system, then type the following lines, followed by <enter> after each line. Make sure you first close all VirtualBox Windows and the VirtualBox program, otherwise any changes you make won't stick...
Eg iMac11,3
cd 'C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemProduct' 'iMac11,3'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemVersion' '1.0'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiBoardProduct' 'Mac-F2238BAE'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/DeviceKey' 'ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/GetKeyFromRealSMC' 1 MacBookPro11,3
cd 'C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemProduct' 'MacBookPro11,3'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemVersion' '1.0'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiBoardProduct' 'Mac-2BD1B31983FE1663'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/DeviceKey' 'ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/GetKeyFromRealSMC' 1 Macmini6,2
cd 'C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemProduct' 'Macmini6,2'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemVersion' '1.0'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiBoardProduct' 'Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/DeviceKey' 'ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/GetKeyFromRealSMC' 1 3. Optional- For some host systems eg those with Haswell and newer CPUs, you might have to spoof an older CPU to avoid VirtualBox errors. You can try from one of the following if this happens:
To spoof Lynnfield i5 750 CPU
VBoxManage.exe modifyvm 'El_Capitan' --cpuidset 00000001 000106e5 06100800 0098e3fd bfebfbff To spoof IvyBridge CPU
VBoxManage.exe modifyvm 'El_Capitan' --cpuidset 00000001 000306a9 04100800 7fbae3ff bfebfbff or
VBoxManage.exe modifyvm 'El_Capitan' --cpuidset 00000001 000306a9 00020800 80000201 178bfbff 4. Close the command prompt window.
Installation of El Capitan
We are now ready to start the El_Capitan Virtual Machine....
Installation should be relatively straight forward, just following the prompts of the OS X installer:
1. Select language, agree to legal terms
2. Use Disk Utility from the Utilities Menu to erase and format the virtual hard drive as a single partition GUID Mac OS X Extended. I named my drive 'Macintosh HD' but you can enter whatever you like eg El_Capitan.
3. Quit DU and choose Macintosh HD to install El Capitan on.
4. After 20-30 min (depending on how fast your system is), the installation will complete. At this point, unmount the El Capitan ISO by clicking the Devices menu from the VM window, click Optical Drives, then choose Remove disk from virtual drive. The VM is now ready to reboot into OS X from the virtual hard drive.
5. At the welcome screen, choose your country and keyboard layout. You can skip transfer information, location services and logging in with your Apple ID if you wish…
6. Create a User Account and select your Time Zone. You can skip sending diagnostics and usage data to Apple….
7. Finally, you will arrive at the El Capitan Desktop.
8. Network/internet and audio should work OOB but on my system, the sounds were distorted. Unfortunately, there is no QE/CI and the VM resolution will be fixed without the ability to dynamically resize the VM window (no VirtualBox additions for OS X guests atm).
Customization with VBoxManage
1. You can change the default resolution of 1024*768 (after shutting down the VM) with the VBoxManage command from the Windows Administrative Command Prompt:
cd 'C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' VBoxInternal2/EfiGopMode N (Where N can be one of 0,1,2,3,4,5) referring to the 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1920x1200 screen resolution respectively.
Update: For VirtualBox 5.2.x, the command for changing screen resolution has changed...
VBoxManage setextradata '<MyVM>' VBoxInternal2/EfiGraphicsResolution XxY (where X=Horizontal screen resolution, Y=Vertical screen resolution)
eg
VBoxManage setextradata '<MyVM>' VBoxInternal2/EfiGraphicsResolution 1280x1024 2. Adding serials and other SMBIOS details for the System Information Screen
VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemSerial' 'W8#######B6'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiBoardSerial' 'W8#########1A'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemVendor' 'Apple Inc.'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemFamily' 'iMac'VBoxManage setextradata 'El_Capitan' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiBIOSVersion' 'IM112.0057.03B' A listing of known issues with Mac OS X guests can be found in the VirtualBox Manual - link https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch14.html.
Vanilla Mavericks and Yosemite, Snow Leopard from Retail DVD
The same VM settings for El Capitan will also boot and run vanilla installations of OS X Mavericks and Yosemite . Attached to this post are installer scripts to create bootable Mavericks (CMI.tool) and Yosemite (CYI.tool) ISOs for VirtualBox and VMware.
With the respective OS X installer apps in the Applications folder, download and run the installer tools using terminal ie
To create a Mavericks ISO on your desktop
cd downloadschmod +x CMI.tool./CMI.tool To create a Yosemite ISO on your desktop
cd downloadschmod +x CYI.tool./CYI.tool Here is a screenshot of the VM running Mavericks 10.9.5...
Finally, those without a Mac/Hack to prepare the install media can purchase a retail Snow Leopard DVD directly from Apple and install OSX 10.6.3 on their virtual machines (Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion run quite happily in VirtualBox with 1 CPU, 1-2 GB of RAM and the rest of the settings unchanged from above). Once you update by combo update to SL 10.6.8, you can directly download El Capitan from the App Store for free .
UPDATE macOS Sierra 10.12 to 10.12.6: For macOS Sierra, use CSI.tool in post#51.
UPDATE macOS High Sierra 17A365: For macOS High Sierra, use CHSI.tool in post#73.
UPDATE macOS Mojave 18A391: For macOS Mojave or High Sierra, use macOS_iso_creator.tool on page 4 of thread.
UPDATE macOS Catalina Beta DP3_19A501i: For Catalina, @jpz4085 has made an automated batch file to create a Catalina VM in Windows with iMac 14,2 SMBIOS. You can still use my macOS_iso_creator.tool on page 5 to make an installer ISO to attach to the VM.
Good luck and enjoy
CECI.tool.zip
CYI.tool.zip
CMI.tool.zip - By simplyhumanHello All,
I am trying to install SL from retail DVD image on Vmware 15.0.2 on a desktop with the following specs:
PC: Lenovo ThinkStation P510
OS: Windows 10 1809
Memory: 16 GB
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1607 V4 @ 3.10 GHz
GPU: nVidia Quadro K620
Steps taken till now, got the errors and progressively removed them by going through the forum topics:
1. Used unlocker 3.0.2 to unlock VMware workstation 15.0.2 (https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/335757-macos-unlocker-v30-for-vmware-workstation/?tab=comments#comment-2638208)
2. Copied the patched EFI unlocker to x64 folder in VMware Workstation directory (https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/336110-macos-efi-unlocker-v10-for-vmware/?tab=comments#comment-2642442)
3. Provided the full path of the patched files in the vm configuration file
4. Got the cpuid mask from here (https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243274-how-to-install-retail-os-x-106-snow-under-vmware-workstation-7-or-player-3/)
Now my VM boots up without errors but it displays a stop sign after the apple logo
Please let me know how should I proceed as I think this is the last hurdle before successful installation of SL on VMware 15 - By BadruzeusOPENSTEP was an operating system created by NeXT Software Inc. It served as the basis for Mac OS X after Steve Jobs came back to Apple after Apple acquired NeXT. This is simply to show computer history.
Guest OS: (Next) OpenSTEP 4.2
Virtualization: VirtualBox 5.2.18
Host OS: Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G22010)
Credit for installation guide: http://openstep.bfx.re/ - By Sectum SempraHi.
I have a Lenovo Z510-b Laptop which I wanted to Hackintosh.this is my first one so I'm a newbie and don't kjow much.
I did the process using an easy guide on Hackintosh zone which all I needed to do was to restore a pre maid installer on a usb disk and then boot ETC.
After installation, I have faced several issues which I have managed to fix some of them gradually, but there are some I couldn't make it work:
GRAPHICS:
first of all lets talk about my main issue. The macOS only recognizes 4MB of my igpu and I can't make any difference. ( ill say what I have done for it so far)
and for my Nvidia graphic I think it won't go so well ( after screwing my laptop up for 3 times) because I only have discrete or igpu option in my bios. ( discrete AFA I heard won't work)
so im mainly hoping for my igpu.
Things I have done for igpu:
Have installed:
FakePCIID_Intel_HD_Graphics.kext
FakePCIID.kext
intelGraphicsFixup.kext.kext using M u L Ti Be a St
Have done clover settings:
in devices tab,IntelGfx: 0x4128086
in Graphics tab, ig-platform-id: 0x0a260006 ( inject EDID and inject Intel checked)
have checked fix intelgfx in api tab under fixes section
* I even set the VRAM box in graphics tab to like 64 or 256 to see if it changes anything although I don't really know what is that for lol*
PS: my bios doesn't have any option to set Vram like some guides suggest.
AUDIO:
this should be a minor issue. I do have the audio working using 'M u L Ti Be_a St 'and re booting after installing '100/200/300 series Audio Support' under 'Realtek ALCxxx' section under audio tab under drivers section. but when I restart again, it just goes off!
the installation suggests 'Adds Rename HDAS to HDEF patch to /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/config.plist.' but I had( and still have) this patch in my acpi section! so I don't know what is the deal there; but I think its minor.
Sorry for long text. I really hope you could help me out. I will now send you the information you need about my laptop specs and will attach my problem reporting files which I made using the script rehab man has suggested. NOTE : I get some warnings and errors during boot (verbous) although it boots perfectly, but I don't know if those are included in my problem reporting file or not, or whether it is important at all or not.but I haven't seen any errors there relating to graphics. ( I might be wrong tho).
My laptop:
Lenovo Z510
Inel Core i7 4702MQ
Intel HD 4600
Nvidia Geforce GT740M
Realtek Audio ( I thing its 230)
Realtek Ethernet
Intel Wi-fi ( obviously couldn't make it work)
Thanks in advance!
debug_3979.zip - By Insanelymac_user_abcIs it possible to install an older OS X.5 Leopard or OS X.6 Snow Leopard Hackintosh system on a modern i7 processor PC?
I need to to run either of those systems using an Intel Core i7-4770K Quad-Core Desktop Processor on a Gigabyte GA-Z87MX-D3H motherboard.
I saw this post where someone said “Clover 32Bit should boot Leopard as well, using Legacy mode. You will need 32bit kexts as well.” https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/331457-bootloader-for-leopard/ .. Would that be valid advice for me to follow up on for my configuration? I see that Clover 32 bit is no longer in development.. https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/317521-good-bye-clover-32/
The real PROBLEM FOR THIS IS simple, new version of MAC OS ISO doesn't work. I know why SNOW leopard 10.6.3 and up is a dual disc, meaning it is bootable with mac, but once it is inserted to windows computer, the mac partition from the disc never shows up. Sep 25, 2012 Finally, those without a Mac/Hack to prepare the install media can purchase a retail Snow Leopard DVD directly from Apple and install OSX 10.6.3 on their virtual machines (Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion run quite happily in VirtualBox with 1 CPU, 1-2 GB of RAM and the rest of the settings unchanged from above).
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- Note: This is a Retail installation guide, hence little more tricky.If you don’t mind an osx86 distro inside virtualbox and want ease of installation, tryout Install Mac OS X Hackintosh in VirtualBox Snow Leopard instead. Before you begin, make sure you have enough CPU.
- How to run osx in a vm on virtualbox run vanilla os x el capitan sierra virtualbox for review unpolished install intosh os x snow virtualbox 4 0 rocks extensions and aHow To Run Osx In A Vm On Virtualbox Lease LabsInstall Run Os X 10 6 Snow Leopard In continue reading. Run Os X Snow Leopard On Virtualbox Multi Booting And.
- May 30, 2011 First off, if you have not installed VirtualBox, now would be a really good time to get it. Go to Virtualbox website and download the installer for your OS. If you do not own a Snow Leopard disc, you might want to search for a OSX86 iso file and download it. Step 1: Open the VirtualBox software.
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