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Thanks for this! I was stuck with the problem with the first boot.

Wish I would’ve found this post earlier 🙂

I also had problems converting the .cdr.dmg to an .iso file, always kept having errors. I went around the problem by copying the file to an external drive and doing the convert from there – worked like a charm.

I also had to erase the created virtual disk in the first part of the process through the GUI since I was getting the same error as above

Erasing Disk: 0%… 10%…
Error erasing disk error number (22, 0)
A error occurred erasing the disk.

Once I erased the created partition via Disk utility GUI -> I was able to proceed.

Thank you for this instruction.
Everything is working without problems (after three other wrong solutions)

I think thats the best google result that google has given to me today.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I got stuck at the failed boot and none of the other installs directions mentioned that part.

Hi Tobi

Thank you! You helped me a lot.

Do you know if I can also use this same iso file to install the HS in the VMWare?

Hi. Just to tell you that I got the 1280×720 resolution. The related post: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=85846&p=408709#p408709

Thanks for all.

Fantastic Step by Step Guide, could not have managed without it!

Just have one small issue, the Graphics are not working like I expected, I have a new MacBookPro with Touchbar in 15″ and the screen I set only covers 2/3 or so.

Do you have a trick, to fix that?

Kind regards,

Jeffry

Hi
Great guide.
Thought i am trying on 10.13.2 new installation, No other setups but cant get the sudo /App script to work.
”Command not found”
Im writing
sudo /Applications/Install\ myfolder\ tosierra\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/install_build

The sierra app is 5.2 gb version 13.2.77
And newest VB with extensionpack

Followed all of your instructions upto right after to creating the VM. When starting the VM, the initial boot just keeps looping. Ending with a message like “Please switch to XPC or bottstrap_check():…” Any ideas on what is happening here and how to fix it? Thanks.

Useful info:
Running
ubuntu 16.04
virtualbox: 5.2.6
created iso from High Sierra installer as of January 2018.

I floowed the whole process with success till the end but after all the steps the VM is not starting. I get “UEFI Interactive Shell v2.1″….”press ESC to skip startup.msh or any key to continue”. I’ve removed the disk image e changed the priority in the VM options. I also tried to boot from “EFI Hard Drive” and “EFI Internal Shell” but didn’t work. Can you help me?

Hey,

Just like to say “Many Thanks”! Mac OS vm has been the most challenged one, and I’ve followed many instructions and yours is the only one that works.

Thanks again for a great, details instructions.

Excellent !! (The part Fn+F12 was hard :-))

Hi there

thanks for the very good tutorial which served the purpose! One thing I encountered is that I installed a 10.12 image the way you describe and all runs well till today. All the security updates etc installed from the image inside as well so the current version is 10.12.6. However, when I tried to upgrade to 10.13 all went well and no error messages etc appeared BUT the system rebooted into the existing 10.12 version …

What went wrong under the hood and what do I have to tweak to get it into booting the new system ??

Thanks in advance

MG

Thank you! The Fn-F12 process worked like a charm. (note it’s ctrl-F12 for win hosts)

Can anyone help with the system update process once onto 10.13.3.. as the standard update to 10.13.4 proceeds but then reboots into the main OS rather than the update process.

However..at this point I don’t see any additional EFI boot files I can select in order to get into the update process.

Any ideas on what to try?

Thanks!

Is there a way one can install VirtualBox guest additions into the MacOS VM.

huge help! Thanks!

Great instructions.
However, I got stuck at part 2. After I had chosen boot.efi the screen goes blank, a flat cursor appears, and that’s it. I have waited some 20 minutes, but nothing changes. Does anyone have any tips for this?

How does it work with upgrades? is there something that needs to be done or i can just update to new version of high Sierra ? as in to 10,13,3 to 10.13.4 for example. will a simple new version 10.14 also update or does this need to be installed again separately ?

It does not install for me. am getting stuck on endSeed wenn starting the ISO

Anyone know how to have an iPhone connect to the VM without crashing the VM?

MacOS 10.13.5
Rezept für vollständige Freude. Sehr vielen Dank!

Tobi – no questions here, I just wanted to say thank you so much for this guide! Your instructions on generating a .iso that VirtualBox can boot from were invaluable, and I also would never have been able to figure out the “Boot Maintenance Manager” portion of the install process. All the best!

Danke Tobi, hat sehr geholfen.

Thank you for the clear steps! They worked. Quick question, anyone know how to make SIP status persistent? I changed it on recovery mode but when I shut down the VM and rebooted, SIP was enabled again 🙁

I am running High Sierra VM on a High Sierra Host

Thank you. This worked like a charm for me.

However, I seem to have an issue when there’s updates on the MacOS. I use xCode/Visual Studio etc and from time to time, Apple pushes it’s updates. The update will download from the App Store, however once you reboot to “install” the VM just reboots, no update is installed and the App Store tells you there’s still updates outstanding.

Do you perhaps know how to get around this?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.
After getting High Sierra installed, it seems that there is a security update I need to run. Unfortunately it downloads the security update, starts installing it, then seems to fail and reboots itself. Only to find the security update not installed.

How can I install a security update?

Your guide worked perfectly! Very straightforward and easy to follow. Thanks for taking the time to write this!

For those who couldn’t update to 10.13.6 and/or patch the security updates:

– Use the same technique of “quick fn+F12” at “Installation of macOS High Sierra Part 2” section of this article.

If the update repeats downloading and feels like you’re having a deja vu, then once the update files were download, do not let it reboot by itself. Delay it, and shut down by your self.

Then do the same “quick fn+F12” thing in “Installation of macOS High Sierra Part 2” section.

In “Boot from file” there will be a 3rd new entry. But that’s the recovery boot image so choose the 2nd one.

I suggest to take a snapshot before any update but hope this will help somebody.

Thank you for this. I am doing this on a Mojave system–partially for fun, partially to be able to run some legacy software once I go to 10.15. The fn/12 made all the difference. In his comment just above mine, Keinos confirmed that one also follows this procedure to install security updates, and also added useful information (though it took a few tries before the update completed without error.)

Thank you for this article! Its a super good article. Its also easier then other tutorails.

This was a very good tutorial, and you obviously took a lot of time composing it. Much appreciated!

I was trying to do the same thing, except with Mojave instead of High Sierra. I followed each of your steps, substituting my own filenames:

hdiutil create -o /tmp/Mojave -size 8G -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J -type SPARSE

hdiutil attach /tmp/Mojave.sparseimage -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/install_build

hdiutil detach /Volumes/Install\ macOS\ Mojave

hdiutil convert /tmp/Mojave.sparseimage -format UDTO -o /tmp/Mojave.iso

mv /tmp/Mojave.iso.cdr ~/Desktop/Mojave.iso

rm /tmp/Mojave.sparseimage

and they seemed to have worked:

Bryans-iMac:~ bryanhiggs$ hdiutil create -o /tmp/Mojave -size 8G -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J -type SPARSE
created: /tmp/Mojave.sparseimage
Bryans-iMac:~ bryanhiggs$ hdiutil attach /tmp/Mojave.sparseimage -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build
/dev/disk4 Apple_partition_scheme
/dev/disk4s1 Apple_partition_map
/dev/disk4s2 Apple_HFS /Volumes/install_build
Bryans-iMac:~ bryanhiggs$ sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/install_build
Password:
Ready to start.
To continue we need to erase the volume at /Volumes/install_build.
If you wish to continue type (Y) then press return:
Operation canceled.
Bryans-iMac:~ bryanhiggs$ sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/install_build
Ready to start.
To continue we need to erase the volume at /Volumes/install_build.
If you wish to continue type (Y) then press return: y
Erasing disk: 0%… 10%… 20%… 30%… 100%
Copying to disk: 0%… 10%… 20%… 30%… 40%… 50%… 60%… 100%
Making disk bootable…
Copying boot files…
Install media now available at “/Volumes/Install macOS Mojave”
Bryans-iMac:~ bryanhiggs$ hdiutil detach /Volumes/Install\ macOS\ Mojave/
“disk4” ejected.
Bryans-iMac:~ bryanhiggs$ hdiutil convert /tmp/Mojave.sparseimage -format UDTO -o /tmp/Mojave.iso
Reading Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)…
Reading Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1)…
Reading (Apple_Free : 2)…
Reading disk image (Apple_HFS : 3)…
…………………………………………………………………..
Elapsed Time: 27.354s
Speed: 299.5Mbytes/sec
Savings: 0.0%
created: /tmp/Mojave.iso.cdr
Bryans-iMac:~ bryanhiggs$ mv /tmp/Mojave.iso.cdr ~/Desktop/Mojave.iso
Bryans-iMac:~ bryanhiggs$ rm /tmp/Mojave.sparseimage
Bryans-iMac:~ bryanhiggs$

I followed your steps for creating a new VirtualBox machine (the screens were slightly different, presumably because I am using a later version of VirtualBox (Version 6.0.14 r133895 (Qt5.6.3)) ), and I substituted my filenames, of course.

However, when I started up the VirtualBox machine I had created, it showed some promise because it seemed to be executing a lot of commands. But then it stopped, and the “Choose Language” window never came up.

You can see an image of where it left me at https://sites.google.com/view/capturedimages/virtualbox-images

I would really appreciate it if someone could guide me about how to make things work, so I can get Mojave working within a VirtualBox machine. Thanks, in advance!

Then, when I

Followed the guide and i’m 95% of the way there i think. I run the installer ‘Part 1’ open the boot manager and change the boot option and run ‘Part 2’ of the installer. At the point the installer is done it then reboots. On this re-boot i get the Boot Failed. Mac OS X error again. However i am unable to go into the boot manager again and run the boot.efi again as it’s not available. Any help much appreciated have spent hours on this all because my legacy programs i kinda need to keep won’t run on my updated Catalina OS.

Thanks for this article. It worked perfectly for me.

2020, and still saving asses. Thanks a lot, man. Whenever you come to Irvine, let me know, I owe you a beer 🙂

I’ve noticed that pressing Esc is Ok. Unfortunately, the procedure to reach the boot.efi file are not the same as the ones described here, so there is no way to understand if I’m selecting the right one. The only alternative one is in a partition containing the recovery system; but selecting that one, I continue to enter the boot from command line.

This page is brilliant! Thanks for saving me much grief: following the instructions on other websites, I’d been unable to make this installation work.

May I suggest that you include a final step? If the optical drive containing the ISO file isn’t removed, then the VM will repeat the installation once launched.

(Also, a minor editing note: it should be “into which we need to boot” or “which we need to boot into” but not “in which we need to boot into”.)

Thanks again!