Ventura install fails under Windows 11/WSL

[mark-ramsey-ri]

After the ventura image is restored to the large disk, it appears to try to perform an upgrade and displays a popup window with the message "An error occurred preparing the software update". I have tried building the container a number of times as well as trying to stop and restart the existing container with the same results.

I used the following command in wsl:

docker run -it \ --device /dev/kvm \ -p 50922:10022 \ -v /mnt/wslg/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \ -e "DISPLAY=${DISPLAY:-:0.0}" \ -e GENERATE_UNIQUE=true \ -e MASTER_PLIST_URL='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sickcodes/osx-serial-generator/master/config-custom.plist' \ sickcodes/docker-osx:ventura

I submitted this on Discord and the only response was that Windows/wsl sucks and it will never work.....doubt that is the real answer. I was able to build catalina and monterey with this same setup.....but I need ventura for the compile process I am doing.

Here are the results from the commands:

1 PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS" NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION_CODENAME=jammy UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on drvfs 1.9T 1.3T 650G 66% /mnt/c QEMU emulator version 6.2.0 (Debian 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.5) Copyright (c) 2003-2021 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers Command 'libvirtd' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install libvirt-daemon total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 31Gi 1.3Gi 4.3Gi 3.0Mi 25Gi 29Gi Swap: 8.0Gi 6.0Mi 8.0Gi 16 32 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 232 Nov 22 09:00 /dev/kvm total 4.0K drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 60 Nov 22 09:00 . drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4.0K Nov 10 15:05 .. srwxrwxrwx 1 mramsey mramsey 0 Nov 22 09:00 X0 mramsey 272 0.0 0.0 4024 1940 pts/2 S+ 10:27 0:00 grep --color=auto dockerd kvm:x:109: docker:x:1001:mramsey

[RichardFevrier]

Not sure it is related to WSL since it happens to me under Fedora

[RichardFevrier]

Resolved for me using HFS+ journaled instead of APFS during the partition formating step. Can you try that too @mark-ramsey-ri ?

[RichardFevrier]

Going to Disk Utility after macOS is booted and my volumes seems to be ... APFS 🤔 Unable to understand...

[mark-ramsey-ri]

Just kicked off a restore after using HFS+ journaled instead of APFS. I guess we will know in about 2hrs if that works under Windows too.

[mark-ramsey-ri]

Using that approach worked for me too.

The documentation should be updated for Ventura to set the initial disk format to HFS+ journaled so that the install will finish correctly. I believe as it installs and updates, it updates the disk format to APFS.

[RichardFevrier]

Glad it worked for you too @mark-ramsey-ri 🙂 I agree the documentation should probably reflect this @sickcodes

[PTAHume]

where do you find this option as its no in the list of formatting options for the mac boot format option dropdown list?

[RichardFevrier]

[PTAHume]

thank you :) I was looking for something in the list that was actually named "HFS+ journaled" lol

[singpolyma]

This hasn't changed anything for me, I get the same error.

[kocoman2]

is there any way to get the error log?