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Bootable USB Installers for OS X Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, and Sierra

First, review this introductory article: Create a bootable installer for macOS. Second, see this How To outline for creating a bootable El Capitan installer. Simply replace the Terminal command with the one from the preceding article by copying it into the Terminal window. You will need an 8GB or larger USB flash drive that has been partitioned and formatted for use with OS X.

IOOI Posts: 73 Joined: 14. Nov 2014, 17:54 Primary OS: Mac OS X other VBox Version: PUEL Guest OSses: OPENSTEP, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Windows. InstallerApp2ISO is an open-source utility designed to help you convert a macOS Installer application to a bootable ISO image. This software program can also generate a VirtualBox vdi disk image for booting a macOS VM using an APFS file system. Unfortunately, many users are daunted. The download version of InstallerApp2ISO for Mac is 1.0.8. The software is periodically scanned by our antivirus system. We also encourage you to check the files with your own antivirus before launching the installation. This download is provided to you free of charge. Update to the method: Check for more details. The macOS install packaged download from Apple.

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Drive Partition and Format

1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities' folder.
2. After Disk Utility loads select the drive (out-dented entry with the mfg.'s ID and size) from the side list.
3. Click on the Erase tab in the Disk Utility toolbar. Name the drive, 'MyVolume'. <---- IMPORTANT!
4. In the drop down panel set the partition scheme to GUID. Set the Format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.)
5. Click on the Apply button and wait for the Done button to activate. When it does click on it.
6. Quit Disk Utility.

Create Installer

Open the Terminal in the Utilities' folder. Choose the appropriate command line (in red) depending upon what OS X installer you want. Paste that entire command line from below at the Terminal's prompt:

Command for macOS High Sierra:

sudo /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume --applicationpath /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app

Command for macOS Sierra:

sudo /Applications/Install macOS Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume --applicationpath /Applications/Install macOS Sierra.app

Command for El Capitan:

sudo /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume --applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app

Command for Yosemite:

sudo /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume --applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app

Command for Mavericks:

sudo /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume --applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app

Press RETURN. You will be asked for your admin password. It will not echo to the Terminal window. Then press RETURN again. Wait for the return of the Terminal prompt signifying the process has completed. It takes quite some time to finish. Be patient.

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Overview

There are a number of steps to create a working Mojave (or later) VM in VirtualBox. This guide assumes you have some familiarity with creating and maintaining VirtualBox VMs.

A comprehensive usage guide is include in the VirtualBox distribution and you should refer to this for things you don't understand about creating or running a VM.

Prerequisites

1. Download VirtualBox and install it (see https://www.virtualbox.org)
2. Also download and install the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack (from the VirtualBox download site)
3. Download the current Install macOS Mojave (or later) from the the Apple App Store. You can skip this step if you already have the installer.
4. Download InstallerApp2ISO from this site.

Create Mojave (or later) installation files

1. Run InstallerApp2ISO and create an installer ISO from the Install macOS Mojave (or later) application.
2. There is no need to create a VDI file containing the APFS driver if you have installed VirtualBox 6.1.0 or later.
   Run InstallerApp2ISO and create a VDI file from the Install macOS Mojave (or later) application. You will be prompted for a name and a size.
   It is a good idea to choose a name for the disk that reflects the name you will use for the VM. Avoid using spaces in the name if possible.
   Also, have a think about how big you want this VDI to be. Choose a reasonable size for your intended use of the VM.

Set up a new VM for macOS Mojave (or later)

If you are using VirtualBox 6.0.x or earlier, you should follow these steps.
For later versions of VirtualBox, please refer to the VirtualBox manual.

1. Run VirtualBox and make a new VM. Use the macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) template and choose a name for your VM that is similar (if not the same as) to the name you chose for your VDI. Avoid using spaces in the name if possible.
   • Do NOT add a virtual hard drive to this machine - you'll add it later.
   • Most of the settings are best left at their default values.
   • You MUST configure a USB 3.0 (xhci) controller.
   • Configure the number of CPUs you wish to allocate to the VM. 2 CPUs is a good number for the installer and can always be increased later.
   • Configure the RAM you wish to allocate to the VM. I suggest a minimum of 3GB but this is dependent on how much real memory is installed in your machine.
   • Configure the Video Memory to 128MB.
   • Do NOT overcommit your host resources - performance of both the host and the guest will suffer if you do.
   • Close the Settings window.
2. Right-click your VM in the list of VMs. Select Show in Finder and the folder containing the configuration files for your new VM will open.
3. Copy your newly minted VDI file into the VM folder. By default the VDI was created on your Desktop.
4. Back in VirtualBox, open the new VM settings and add your new VDI file as the hard drive for your new VM. Be sure to choose the VDI file you copied into your VM folder in the previous step.
5. Add a DVD drive to your VM (if you don't already have one) and assign your ISO to the drive.

Run your new VM

1. Start your new VM and it should boot from the ISO installer, eventually leading you to the familiar macOS Installer.
2. Jump through all the installer hoops and an initial macOS installation will be performed from the ISO to your VDI.
3. After this first phase of installation your VM will reboot. Interrupt it (power off the VM or close its window).
4. Back in VirtualBox, open the VM settings and remove the ISO from the DVD drive. If you don't do this, the VM will once again boot from the ISO.
5. Reboot the VM with the ISO removed and the macOS installer should proceed to completion.

Post Installation Tweaks

Once you have succesfully installed macOS Mojave (or later) into a VM, you may wish to consider the following:
Consult the VirtualBox usage guide if you are unsure how to make these tweaks. You will also find useful information in the VirtualBox online forums.

• Change the size of the macOS desktop.
• Change the networking setup. The default is NAT.
• Assign a serial number to your VM.
• Install the VirtualBox Guest Additions. Currently this will fail. VirtualBox is not notarized and until it is, macOS 10.14.5 (and later) will refuse to install the kernel extension (kext) files.

A successful Mojave install in a VirtualBox VM

Starting a VirtualBox VM at Login

Several VirtualBox users have asked how they can launch their VM(s) automatically when they login. In answer to this, I have written a shell script that achieves this aim by installing a user LaunchAgent.

LaunchAgents are configured with an Apple plist XML file installed in the users Library/LaunchAgents folder. When the user logs in to their account on the Mac, launchd will inspect these plist files and invoke the required program with specified arguments.

It can get a bit tricky to create a plist manually. They have very fussy and very unforgiving syntax requirements. This shell script will create the plist and install it in the LaunchAgents directory.

You can download the script from vboxlaunchagent.sh. Unzip the file and copy the script to a suitable directory on your machine. In the example below I have copied the script to my Desktop.

The example below installs a LaunchAgent for my VM named 'debian small' and configures it to start in headless mode.

Usage: vboxlaunchagent [options] 'vm name'

Options

• -h|--headless
  
  By default the script creates a Launch Agent for a VM that's running normally. Given this option, that VM will start in the background, headless.
• -d|--debug
  
  This will create an additional two files in the '/tmp' folder, '/tmp/$VMNAME.log' and '/tmp/$VMNAME.error.log' in case something goes wrong and you want to look at the error output.
• -r|--remove
  
  Remove an already existing Launch Agent entry for 'VM_name'.
• -v|--verbose
  
  Print analytical messages about what the script is doing.

InstallerApp2ISO is code-signed with my Apple Developer certificate and has also passed Apple's notarization process.

Download InstallerApp2ISO 1.0.8

Enhancements

• Added support for macOS 10.15.8

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Enhancements

• Added support for macOS 10.15.5, 10.15.6.

Download InstallerApp2ISO 1.0.6

Enhancements

• Added support for macOS 10.15.3, 10.15.4.

Download InstallerApp2ISO 1.0.5

Enhancements

• Warn users with VirtualBox 6.1 or later that an apfs driver in the EFI partition is no longer required.
• Added French localisation - thank you Jean-Pierre Kuypers.
• InstallerApp2ISO.sh updated from upsteam - thank you @socratis.

Fixed

• Possible crash when running on MaxOSX 10.9 (Mavericks).

Download InstallerApp2ISO 1.0.4

Enhancements

• Disable spotlight indexing of mounted disk images.
• Added support for macOS 10.15.1, 10.15.2.

Download InstallerApp2ISO 1.0.3

Enhancements

• apfsvdi.sh uses VirtualBox utilities directly, rather than via wrapper scripts.
• Updated InstallerApp2ISO.sh from upstream. Thanks @socratis.

Download InstallerApp2ISO 1.0.2

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Enhancements

• Support for creating a macOS 10.14.6 (Mojave) installer iso

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Enhancements

• Support for creating a macOS 10.15 (Catalina) installer iso
• Support for creating a macOS 10.14.5 (Mojave) installer iso
• Added 'Dry Run' switch to see what will happen without changing your system.
• Version checking for new releases of InstallerApp2ISO

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