Unable to complete installation of Catalina on macOS

[mciarlo]

I'm running into an issue creating the VDI file. You can find the output below. I reviewed other similar issues and the only thing I found was a recommendation to reinstall the script, which I just downloaded today. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

stage: create_nvram_files

stage: create_macos_installation_files_viso
Creating EFI startup script

Creating VirtualBox 6 virtual ISO containing the
installation files from swcdn.apple.com

stage: configure_vm

stage: populate_basesystem_virtual_disk
Converting BaseSystem.dmg to BaseSystem.img

dmg2img v1.6.7 (c) vu1tur (to@vu1tur.eu.org)

Catalina_BaseSystem.dmg --> Catalina_BaseSystem.img

Converting from raw image file="Catalina_BaseSystem.img" to file="Catalina_BaseSystem.vdi"...
VBoxManage: error: Cannot open file "Catalina_BaseSystem.img": VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
Failed to create "Catalina_BaseSystem.vdi".
Exiting.

[myspaghetti]

Thanks for the bug report!

dmg2img appears to have failed to covnert Catalina_BaseSystem.dmg to Catalina_BaseSystem.img. Either Catalina_BaseSystem.dmg doesn't exist, or the file is corrupt, or there is some file access issue which might occur if the script runs with elevated privileges (sudo, root, etc).

Please run ./macos-guest-virtualbox.sh troubleshoot and attach the resulting .txt file here.

[mciarlo]

Thanks for the speedy reply!

Here is a gist of the troubleshoot text.

[myspaghetti]

Thanks. Catalina_BaseSystem.dmg appears to be corrupt, which would explain why dmg2img failed to convert it to an img file. On the plus side, Catalina_InstallESDDmg.pkg has the correct hash and so do the rest of the files, so you don't need to re-download everything, just delete Catalina_BaseSystem.dmg and re-run the script.

Lack of file integrity verification is a known issue (#321) so I'm marking this as duplicate.

[mciarlo]

@myspaghetti Thank you so much! Everything seems to be working!