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AlexanderWillner / runMacOSinVirtualBox

Run macOS 10.16 Big Sur (and other versions) in VirtualBox on macOS
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Why does `make download` create a dmg file? Please clarify instructions #118

Closed Blaisorblade closed 3 years ago

Blaisorblade commented 3 years ago

Expected behavior

After make download, make check works.

Actual behavior

After make download I must "move installer to /Applications" but that doesn't mean moving the generated .dmg file.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

$ make download
[...]
Product downloaded and installed to /Users/pgiarrusso/git/runMacOSinVirtualBox/Install_macOS_11.0.1-20B29.sparseimage
Making read-only compressed disk image containing Install macOS Big Sur.app...
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created: /Users/pgiarrusso/git/runMacOSinVirtualBox/Install_macOS_11.0.1-20B29.dmg
Disk image created at: ./Install_macOS_11.0.1-20B29.dmg
Please move installer to /Applications now.
$ mv Install_macOS_11.0.1-20B29.dmg /Applications/
$ make check
Logfile: /Users/pgiarrusso/Library/Logs/runMacOSVirtualbox.log
Running checks....
ERROR: No macOS installer found at /Applications. Download the installer first (e.g. via 'installinstallmacos.py') - press enter in the terminal when done...