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AlexanderWillner / runMacOSinVirtualBox

Run macOS 10.16 Big Sur (and other versions) in VirtualBox on macOS
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applicationpath parameter is not needed with macOS 10.14 or better #122

Open paulschreiber opened 3 years ago

paulschreiber commented 3 years ago

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Put "Install macOS Mojave" in /Applications
  2. Run make all

Expected behavior No warnings

Actual behavior

WARNING: "--applicationpath" is deprecated in macOS 10.14 and greater. Please remove it from your invocation.

Additional context

[2020-12-07 10:03:09] Creating image '/Users/paul/VirtualBox VMs/macOS-VM.dmg' (takes a while, version 14.6.06, will need sudo)...
[2020-12-07 10:03:09] .
created: /Users/paul/VirtualBox VMs/macOS-VM.dmg

/dev/disk3              Apple_partition_scheme          
/dev/disk3s1            Apple_partition_map             
/dev/disk3s2            Apple_HFS                       /Volumes/macOS-VM
WARNING: "--applicationpath" is deprecated in macOS 10.14 and greater. Please remove it from your invocation.
Erasing disk: 0%... 10%...
 20%...
 30%... 100%
Copying to disk: 0%...
 10%...
 20%...
 30%...
 40%...
 100%
Making disk bootable...
Copying boot files...
Install media now available at "/Volumes/Install macOS Mojave"
"disk3" ejected.
AlexanderWillner commented 3 years ago

If the parameter is removed, the installation of macOS 10.13 and older wouldn't work. So having a warning (not an error) is fine imho. No?

paulschreiber commented 3 years ago

Can you detect which version of macOS you're installing and use it only when needed?