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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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The MacOS virtual machine doesn't appear in the manager #592

Closed ding0z closed 2 years ago

ding0z commented 2 years ago

Hi, I successfully installed MacOs on Virtualbox but after that, the VM doesn't appear in the manager. I'm trying now to reinstall it (screenshot).

Any thoughts? Many thanks.

Screenshot 2022-03-20 at 20 48 03

myspaghetti commented 2 years ago

This usually happens when the script is run with elevated privileges (with sudo or the root user for example) and then when VirtualBox GUI is launched from a different user it cannot access the VM. If that's the case, move the VM disk image from its elevated-privileges location to a user-accessible location, then manually create a virtual machine and manually configure it (or configure it with the configure_vm stage from the script) and manually attach the existing virtual disk image.