Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS
macos-guest-virtualbox.sh is a Bash script for creating Catalina (10.15), Mojave (10.14), and High Sierra (10.13) guests on VirtualBox on Windows, Linux, and macOS hosts from scratchThe script creates a VirtualBox guest macOS virtual machine with unmodified macOS installation files downloaded directly from Apple servers. See the readme file for more information.
The following dependencies should be available through a package manager:
bash coreutils gzip unzip wget xxd dmg2img virtualbox
The following optional packages provide optical character recognition that reduces the required interaction with the script:
tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng
Supported versions:
Bash ≥ 4.3, GNU coreutils ≥ 8.22, GNU gzip ≥ 1.5, Info-ZIP unzip ≥ v6.0, GNU wget ≥ 1.14, xxd with -e little endian support, dmg2img ≥ 1.6.5, tesseract-ocr ≥ 4The script creates a VirtualBox guest macOS virtual machine with unmodified macOS installation files downloaded directly from Apple servers. See the readme file for more information.
Bash≥4.3 (GNU variant; run on Windows through Cygwin or WSL)coreutils (GNU variant; install through package manager)unzip(install through package manager)wget (install through package manager)dmg2img (install through package manager on Linux, macOS, or WSL; let the script download it automatically on Cygwin)The script creates a VirtualBox guest macOS Mojave 10.14 virtual machine with unmodified macOS installation files downloaded directly from Apple servers. See the readme file for more information.
Bash≥4 (run on Windows through Cygwin or WSL)coreutils, unzip, wget (install through package manager)dmg2img (install through package manager on Linux or WSL; let the script download it automatically on Cygwin)