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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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Script crashes Virtualbox during "Concatenating InstallESD.part00" so later installation fails #614

Closed tomperchtold closed 1 year ago

tomperchtold commented 1 year ago

Hi,

I have a problem with merging the part00 files together during the install process. It seems during the merging process using cat my VirtualBox crashes (maybe due to a heavy I/O load?) which leaves me of course with a corrupt dmg file which leads to a hang later when the startosinstall.sh/nvram.sh starts.

My InstallESD.dmg varies between 100 - 400 megs, depends on how long it stays alive.

I don't know why VirtualBox crashes here, installed the latest version but without the extpack. Log file does not show much. And it happens on two different machines and on two different Linux distros (Fedora and Linux Mint).

myspaghetti commented 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for the bug report. macOS on VirtualBox with CPUs from 2020 and newer tend to crash. There's no list of supported CPUs, but generally they should be similar to ones from Intel Macs sold by Apple. See the script documentation about fitting one of the existing VirtualBox CPU profiles to your CPU, or manually generating the proper CPUID config.

Or, since you're running Linux, I heartily recommend using QEMU/KVM.

tomperchtold commented 1 year ago

Hello, I found out what the real problem is: In the above mentioned machine where only 4 GB RAM installed. I assume Virtualbox ran into a OOM error during the merging process. Once I installed another 4 GB the merging process went through ...

gostaj commented 11 months ago

Just adding my own solution to more or less the same problem. My host machine froze/hanged/crashed and restarted when concatenating the files.

Host: MacOS storage_size=35000 (I decreased it from the default which seemed ok since it says minimum 22000)

Solution: Use the default storage_size=80000, that works.