Vm mac os 129/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Install VirtualBox on your Windows PC by following the instructions in the installation wizard.This is an easier, and hence preferred, method for getting access to Apple software. However, the amount of technical knowledge you need for this is way less. There are plenty of sites that have them, but downloading an ISO from an unofficial site does come with a level of risk. You will still need to convert this APP file to a DMG and then convert it from a DMG to an ISO in order to be able to install it in VirtualBox.Īn easier but also less secure option is to search for an ISO of your desired version of macOS online. Regardless of the macOS version your Mac is running, open the App Store page of the latest macOS version – Monterey – and download the installer from there. Even if you have access to a Mac, you won’t be able to download a copy of the OS you already have installed. Getting hold of an ISO is actually more difficult than you might expect. You’ll also need an ISO image of the macOS version you want to install. rw-r-r- 1 tim wheel 2.0M 7 Oct 22:26 iPod_1.1.5.First, you’ll need to download a copy of Oracle VM VirtualBox. Want the 1st generation iPod firmware from around 2001? You can still download it from Apple (it’s 2MB and contains only 2 files: a manifest and the firmware binary): $ curl -sLO ipsw file is just a zip file, however, and so they can contain whatever the hardware/firmware platform is expecting. ipsw files using Apple Configurator, in the same way one restores an iOS device. When Apple Silicon devices first appeared, it seemed uncanny (and also not terribly surprising) that such a device would be restored by putting them into DFU mode and restoring. This new system seems to abstract nearly all of this away… A brief detour on IPSWs It was a constant moving target, changing subtly with seemingly ever OS release since OS X Lion. While Apple has been making it easier in recent years to retrieve macOS installers, commercial VM solutions always required you to supply your own installers, which they would then (always via a lengthy Bash script) quietly mount in the background, converting its various pieces into a new disk image layout that was suitable for installation. Once you’ve created a VM, what’s interesting is that it will immediately show download progress:Īutomatic IPSW discovery courtesy of VZMacOSRestoreImage.fetchLatestSupportedWithCompletionHandler The Parallels UI presents a straightforward path to getting a Mac VM created when running on an M1. Any of this experimentation requires running macOS Monterey betas as the host OS. The other repos I listed above are also easy enough to get started with, just that the setup steps vary slightly and also require you to build the projects from source (which still requires Xcode 13 betas, since only these include the macOS 12 platform SDK). This KB article from Parallels also covers macOS Monterey guest support on Apple Silicon in more detail. Parallels offers a 14-day trial of the Parallels Desktop product. So, I just started using Parallels to experiment with what was possible at this early stage (and to just take the easiest path to seeing this for my own eyes). I’m aware of only one commercial offering that uses these new APIs, and that is Parallels Desktop 17. Where can we see some of these new Virtualization framework features already implemented? There are several open-source experiments you’ll find on GitHub: Virtualizing on Apple Siliconīecause Apple Silicon hardware has such great performance at a low thermal cost, and Apple hardware is the only legal platform on which (as a user) to run macOS, and macOS is the only officially-supported platform for building and releasing apps for Apple hardware platforms, I’m very interested in being able to continue to virtualize macOS as we transition away from Intel-based Apple hardware. What’s interesting here is that (I think) it’s the first time we see native Apple APIs for macOS guest virtual machines. VZVirtioSoundDeviceOutputStreamConfiguration VZVirtioSoundDeviceInputStreamConfiguration VZUSBScreenCoordinatePointingDeviceConfiguration ![]() In particular, notice the VZMac* APIs: VZAudioDeviceConfiguration Here’s the new APIs below (at time of writing, where Monterey’s latest version is beta 10). When Apple released the first macOS 12 Monterey betas in June 2021, some interesting new APIs were added to the Virtualization framework developer docs. ![]() Check out the follow-up article from June 2022 here. Note: Since this article was originally published, there have been exciting new developments. ![]()
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