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myspaghetti / macos-virtualbox

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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Machine Disappears from VirtualBox when Shutdown #517

Closed d86592 closed 2 years ago

d86592 commented 2 years ago

I installed the machine, it all went fine. I go through the setup process and when i am finished, I shut it down. I go back into VirtualBox to use it again a bit later, and there are no virtual machines in my menu. What should i do to be able to use the VM again? I am running PopOS 21.04 and installed Catalina.

myspaghetti commented 2 years ago

You probably ran the script as root, and then accessed VirtualBox as a regular user. The script is not meant to be run as root. Use the script to configure a new virtual machine and then attach the existing disk image to the newly-configured virtual machine. See the documentation for how to do this.