geerlingguy / macos-virtualbox-vm

Instructions and script to help you create a VirtualBox VM running macOS.
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Adds support for Big Sur #84

Closed alenros closed 3 years ago

geerlingguy commented 3 years ago

(Note that this doesn't mean it will work, but it does add Big Sur into the script.)

catap commented 3 years ago

@geerlingguy it won't work. Big Sur installer contains SharedSupport.dmg instead of InstallESD.dmg.

ansonhoyt commented 2 years ago

Confirming @catap that it doesn't work for Big Sur...

$ ls /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/SharedSupport/
SharedSupport.dmg

Looking at these articles, it might not be hard to get it working, but it will require adding a new code path through createISO: