"asr: Couldn't personalize volume" on Mojave

[ramsey]

I kept running into this issue with Install macOS Mojave.app when the prepare-iso.sh script would get to the asr restore command:

    Validating target...done
    Validating source...done
    Retrieving scan information...done
    Validating sizes...done
    Restoring  ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100
    Restored target device is /dev/disk4s2.
    Remounting target volume...done
Personalization succeeded
asr: Couldn't personalize volume /Volumes/macOS Base System

Oddly enough, though, it appears the "Personalization succeeded," but this emits a non-zero status, so the script dies right here.

I decided to see if I could manually run the commands that followed to see what would happen, and sure enough, everything succeeds, but there was one other thing I needed to change.

I needed to replace:

/Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System

with:

/Volumes/macOS\ Base\ System

For Mojave, it appears that, when the asr restore command mounts the volume for the base system, it uses the name "macOS Base System" instead of the older "OS X Base System."

[ramsey]

I just tested the same changes for Install macOS Catalina.app, and they work for Catalina, as well.

[ramsey]

Unfortunately, the problem I have now is, after installation, the VM boots up into the UEFI Interactive Shell, and I'm stuck here.

[ramsey]

From comments left on other issues here, I found this script, which copies the EFI files over for the APFS file system to boot properly in VirtualBox: https://github.com/AlexanderWillner/runMacOSinVirtualBox

[AxelRobles]

Hello @ramsey, where did you change the volumes paths? I am having the same issue.

[ramsey]

@AxelRobles This commit changed the paths in the script so that the particular issue I was having no longer exists: https://github.com/geerlingguy/macos-virtualbox-vm/commit/37b24fac43044a67870d61cdc346d193fff7b314