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Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS
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installer script fails at 73% #365

Closed andrewtoups closed 3 years ago

andrewtoups commented 3 years ago

Seems to be the same problem as this issue: https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox/issues/360

However I redownloaded the install file from another machine since my windows desktop seems to have trouble downloading large files like this, I ran the script that breaks it into parts again, and it still fails at the exact same place.

Here is my troubleshoot file:

macOS_troubleshoot.txt

myspaghetti commented 3 years ago

Hi, thanks for the bug report!

The installation files' checksums are correct so the issue is with macOS compatibility with the CPU. Unsupported CPUs cause memory corruption issues. I would guess recent versions of macOS are not compatible with a 2008 CPU.

See the documentation about either selecting a preconfigured VirtualBox CPU profile or manually tweaking the VirtualBox CPUID settings.

The script does not check for CPU compatibility. The rationale for not implementing a fix is that keeping a database of compatible CPUs is beyond the humble scope of this script.