{"id":1324,"date":"2024-12-19T11:22:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T10:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:33:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:33:46","slug":"install-macos-in-virtualbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"Install macOS in VirtualBox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First you need an ISO file of the macOS installation DMG. Either download that file from the internet (please be advised to use safe sources) or you follow a tutorial to convert the DMG to an ISO. A tutorial is given here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/how-install-macos-virtualbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/how-install-macos-virtualbox<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simply install macOS by adding a virtual machine an selecting the ISO and system as macOS. After the VM was added, change the config as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Min 2-core CPU<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Min 4 GB RAM<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Min 40 GB HardDisk<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Min 128 MB VboxVGA with 3D acceleration enabled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please note that you may need to set the <strong>CPU count to 1<\/strong> for correct installation, otherwise kernel panics can happen! Also set your <strong>USB controller to USB 3.0<\/strong> in case the mac installer asks you for a mouse or keyboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last steps, you need to execute special config commands in terminal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">$ VBoxManage modifyvm \"&lt;VM_NAME>\" --cpuidset 00000001 000106e5 00100800 0098e3fd bfebfbff<br>$ VBoxManage setextradata \"&lt;VM_NAME>\" \"VBoxInternal\/Devices\/efi\/0\/Config\/DmiSystemProduct\" \"iMac19,3\"<br>$ VBoxManage setextradata \"&lt;VM_NAME>\" \"VBoxInternal\/Devices\/efi\/0\/Config\/DmiSystemVersion\" \"1.0\"<br>$ VBoxManage setextradata \"&lt;VM_NAME>\" \"VBoxInternal\/Devices\/efi\/0\/Config\/DmiBoardProduct\" \"Iloveapple\"<br>$ VBoxManage setextradata \"&lt;VM_NAME>\" \"VBoxInternal\/Devices\/smc\/0\/Config\/DeviceKey\" \"ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc\"<br>$ VBoxManage setextradata \"&lt;VM_NAME>\" \"VBoxInternal\/Devices\/smc\/0\/Config\/GetKeyFromRealSMC\" 0<br>$ VBoxManage setextradata \"&lt;VM_NAME>\" \"VBoxInternal\/TM\/TSCMode\" \"RealTSCOffset\"<br>$ VBoxManage modifyvm \"&lt;VM_NAME>\" --cpu-profile \"Intel Core i7-6700K\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To increase screen resolution you may use:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$ VBoxManage setextradata \u201c&lt;VM_NAME>\u201d VBoxInternal2\/EfiGraphicsResolution 1920x1080<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First you need an ISO file of the macOS installation DMG. Either download that file from the internet (please be advised to use safe sources) or you follow a tutorial to convert the DMG to an ISO. A tutorial is given here: https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/how-install-macos-virtualbox Simply install macOS by adding a virtual machine an selecting the ISO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-osx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}