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#MACOS MONTEREY VIRTUALBOX HOW TO#
How to Install macOS Monterey on VirtualBox on Windows 2. Note that there's a similar bug filed against VMware + MacOS being unable to boot into recovery in Big Sur and later OSes, so my best guess is that this originates in some formatting/structural change to the Big Sur Recovery Partition that both VirtualBox and VMware are unable to deal with. Here, well instruct you to install macOS Monterey on VirtualBox, which is a free virtual machine for personal, educational, or evaluation use. In the next window, you need to enter the following details.
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This github site seems to be a gathering point for people knowledgeable about VirtualBox + MacOS. Running a Mac OS 12 Monterey VM in Virtualbox Download a MacOS Monterey. Launch Oracle VirtualBox on your Windows system.
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After upgrade Apple tells me that Oracle extension will not be supported in future versions of Mac OS ( it seemed ok to me ). Hi, my story: I had latest Big Sur with latest VirtualBox 6.1.28 installed and running perfectly.

So I think think filing a bug there will not accomplish anything. Re: VirtualBox not working with MacOS Monterey. The bugs I file against VirtualBox + MacOS guests on Oracle's website don't even get triaged, as I think Oracle intentionally provides poor support for MacOS guests. The problem is, when you use the VirtualBox BIOS to try to boot from a file, there's no boot.efi in the Recovery Partition for Big Sur and later. Has anyone here figured out how to boot into the Recovery Partition on Big Sur and later OSes? I've seen plenty of workarounds that involve creating an entire new installation to use as a recovery partition, but I'm talking about being able to boot into the actual Recovery Partition. "VBoxInternal/TM/TSCMode" "RealTSCOffset"Īlso loving your work - this is an amazing script for running a macOS installation on VirtualBox from Windows - top work. Is macOS Monterey (12.x) affected by this bug I cant find any discussion on it. This is also what fixed it for me, I wasn't specifically setting any VirtualBox params other than the script generated ones, once I changed RealTSCOffset there was no more boot loop during the Monterey upgrade from the default Catalina install, recommend adding to the the script added the below to the configure_vm section in the script (Actually, I think the issue started with Big Sur but I don't have a BIg Sur VM.)
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If you try to "boot from file" in the VirtualBox BIOS and dive into the Recovery Partition, in Catalina there was a boot.efi file under the GUID, but not in Monterey. running a command that restarts virtualbox (can't find what it was anymore, sorry :/ ) reinstalling virtualbox install a testbuild from virtualbox(6.1) Adding virtualbox to full disk permissions adding the following from the vagrant documentation code in the vagrantfile: config.vm.provider 'virtualbox' do v v. Now, the only remaining issue with Monterey + VirtualBox is that Recovery Mode is unreachable. Note For those using macOS, the following instructions have been tested on a Mac AMD64 with macOS Monterey and VirtualBox 6.1. Side note: Monterey does not ask for my AppleID up front - all other macOS installs I have done ask for this up front.VBoxManage setextradata "macos" "VBoxInternal/TM/TSCMode" "RealTSCOffset" I have done this now with 2 VMs with only minor settings changes, and I get the same results.ĭuring the install, I watch Activity - when it reaches "one minute remaining" for the first ~ 30 mins I see disk and CPU activity, then it settles down to almost nothing. I let it set this way for 2 hours - tried saving state, power down and restart, etc. at final stage - one minute remaining - it stalls OS reboots - then more progress (10 mins remaining, etc)Ĥ. OS Installation runs for a long time, reports progress (20 mins remaining, 12 mins remaining, etc)ģ.

Start VM, use Disk Utility to format, Install MontereyĢ. Monterey: iso converted from Apple installer using hdiutilīoot order: Optical, HD chipset: ICH9, EFI enabled, PAE/NXġ. Download macOS Monterey ISO Image For VirtualBox and VMware Part 1 (4 GB) Download macOS Monterey ISO Image For VirtualBox and VMware Part 2 (4 GB) Download macOS Monterey ISO Image For VirtualBox and VMware Part 3 (3. Guest: 9 GB, 4 CPU, VDI: 80 Gb on internal HD
#MACOS MONTEREY VIRTUALBOX MAC OS X#
VB: 7.0.4 with Oracle VM VB Extension Pack Discussions about using Mac OS X guests (on Apple hardware) in VirtualBox. I'm hoping someone can offer insight - or at least confirmation that my settings are all OK.

I had read that macOS guests should always be installed with the VDI on the internal HD. I did a search on this topic and found one other thread - but it was with BigSur (not Monterey) and the solution was to just "wait it out" or get a SSD.

It almost finishes install, then appears to freeze. Summary: I can't get a macOS guest with Monterey working.
