One‑Click Bash Script to Build a macOS VirtualBox VM
This article introduces a Bash script that automatically downloads unmodified macOS installers from Apple, creates a fully configured macOS virtual machine in VirtualBox within seconds, supports multiple macOS versions, and allows customization of hardware and Apple service parameters across major operating systems.
Introducing a handy Bash script that downloads unmodified macOS installation files directly from Apple servers and creates a macOS VirtualBox virtual machine client.
The client installs in under ten seconds after pressing Enter at the script prompt, without any VM interaction, and has been tested on bash and zsh under Cygwin. It works on macOS, CentOS 7, Windows, and should run on most modern Linux distributions.
The script currently supports macOS Catalina (10.15), Mojave (10.14) and High Sierra (10.13).
You can view the documentation by running: ./macos-guest-virtualbox.sh documentation Most of the script consists of documentation, comments, or actionable error messages.
To use iCloud, iMessage and other Apple services, you need valid device name, serial number, board ID, etc., which can be set by editing the script to modify EFI and NVRAM parameters.
Additionally, you can configure macOS storage size, memory, CPU count, resolution, and other parameters as shown in the screenshots.
The project has earned 7.5K stars and 699 forks on GitHub: https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox .
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