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geerlingguy / macos-virtualbox-vm

Instructions and script to help you create a VirtualBox VM running macOS.
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Update script and instructions for Mojave #59

Closed RobbieClarken closed 5 years ago

RobbieClarken commented 5 years ago

This PR makes a few modifications to the script to make it work for Mojave. I also added set -e to the top of the script to make it exit if any any errors occur.

With these changes I was able to complete a Mojave installation inside the VM (both the installation from the iso and the post-reboot installation). But after rebooting the VM I was stuck in the EFI shell and the Mojave volume was not available. I had encountered this with a previous attempt where I had formatted the disk as APFS but this time I had formatted as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" so I'm not sure why the volume vanished.

At this point I tried https://github.com/AlexanderWillner/runMacOSinVirtualBox and that succeeded. Perhaps for Mojave we should just point people to that project?

geerlingguy commented 5 years ago

Thanks! I hope to get some more time for testing soon.

I wish Clover weren't a requirement for something like this to work :/ (re: AlexanderWillner's repo above)