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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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Infinite reboot loop #623

Closed Karol-Aniszewski closed 1 year ago

Karol-Aniszewski commented 1 year ago

Hi ;) I'm trying to install macOS Mojave, but on first boot the VM falls into a loop. Any advices?

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Video: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/59614308/192534339-8e03475d-3c61-45a7-a8d8-3acf39594a58.mp4

troubleshoot.txt: macOS_troubleshoot.txt

myspaghetti commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the detailed bug report!

The VirtualBox log shows that VT-x/AMD-V is not available so VirtualBox falls back to NEM, which is not supported by the script (I haven't verified, but I suspect NEM can't run macOS on VirtualBox). Some Windows feature or third-party app is blocking VirtualBox from using VT-x/AMD-V.

People have reported running the following command in an Administrator cmd.exe instance and rebooting twice solves the issue:

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

But software other than Windows itself might be blocking VT-x/AMD-V, or it might be disabled in UEFI/BIOS, or it might not be available on the hardware at all. Worth a try, though.

Karol-Aniszewski commented 1 year ago

Hi, thank you for your answer. Anyway issues with Hyper-V was not a case (I have disabled it long before, because I was using another VMs). As I followed the clues from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq8J-vFqH7w&ab_channel=OnlineComputerTips I changed --cpuidset and some other "extra data" for my VM (except the GetKeyFromRealSMC) and it started working. I suspect that this "cpuid" was causing problems, because the same issue was resolved in this topic: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/kernel-panic-and-reboot-while-installing-sierra-g4500-h110.207109/