Installing MacOs (OS X) into a Virtual Environment

There are a number of virtual environments available, but in this post we are going to look at VirtualBox and also Hyper-V.  The reason why I am also going to look at Hyper-V is that I will be using a Windows 10 machine which has it already installed.

First install VirtualBox on to your computer.  Also make sure you install the VirtualBox Extensions Pack .

Get the MacOS components directly from Apple and not from some dodgy rar site.  I will be using the gibMacOS script to do it, just like it was using in the Hackingtosh post.  I downloaded and extracted the zip file into my C:\Utility directory.  The extraction created a directory called gibMacOS-master.  In that directory there is a windows batch file called MakeInstall which will set up gibMacOS.  Python3 will need to be installed.  The batch file will tell you if Python3 can be located and if it can’t, then it will give you the option of installing it.  Once you have successfully run the MakeInstall, you will run the batch file gibMacOS which will bring up a command window for you to start the process.  A menu will come up with choices for the versions of MacOS available.  I chose the latest 10.15 (Catalina) available.  After you make a choice and the download process has completed, the downloaded file will be located in the directory “macOS Downloads”.

For the rest of the instructions go to this following link.

https://www.wikihow.com/Install-Macos-on-a-Virtual-Machine

The instructions has a number of parts to it.  I recommend you get your Mac OS components from Apple like I did above.  Don’t get them from Mediafire like they do in the instructions.  You can be sure that Apple will still be there in the future and the file you download will be secure.

I initially ran into some issue and stopped adding to this post.  I recently added the above link after seeing if anyone had installed Mac OS onto a VirtualBox VM.

I might look into Hyper-V later on.  Not sure now.