Next, head to your Windows machine, and install VirtualBox if you haven’t already, making sure you have the latest version (seriously, older versions may not work.) Step Two: Create Your Virtual Machine in VirtualBox Move the ISO to the desktop: mv /tmp/ ~/Desktop/HighSierra.isoĪnd you’ve got a bootable High Sierra ISO file!Ĭopy it to your Windows machine using a large flash drive, an external hard drive, or over your local network. To start, we’ll need to create an ISO file of macOS High Sierra’s installer, so we can load it in VirtualBox on our Windows machine. Grab your borrowed Mac, head to the Mac App Store, search for Sierra, and click “Download.”Īnd, finally, convert the image you created into an ISO file: hdiutil convert /tmp/ -format UDTO -o /tmp/HighSierra.iso Ready to get started? Let’s jump in! Step One: Create a macOS High Sierra ISO File If you’re on a Mac and want a macOS virtual machine for use on that Mac, we recommend checking out out Parallels Desktop Lite instead, because it can create macOS virtual machines for free and is a lot easier to work with. Borrow a friend’s Mac for an hour if you don’t have one, and you should be fine-everything beyond step one of this tutorial can be done on your Windows PC. You could, we suppose, obtain a High Sierra ISO by other means, but we don’t recommend it. NOTE: In order to get this working, you will need access to a real Mac in order to download High Sierra. RELATED: Beginner Geek: How to Create and Use Virtual Machines To make things a little easier for people, we’ve combined methods from a few different forum threads into a single, step-by-step tutorial, complete with screenshots.

Other than that, though, this is macOS High Sierra, running smoothly in VirtualBox. The only thing not working is sound, which for some reason is highly distorted or nonexistent. Some of the folks at the InsanelyMac forums have figured out a process that works. We haven’t yet tested it ourselves, but we’ve heard good things. It promises to take you through the process of installing and setting up a macOS virtual machine. If you want to install a newer version of macOS in VirtualBox, check out this script on GitHub. Update: The instructions here apply to older versions of macOS.

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