Create mac vm how to#
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Darling-dmg is a part of Darling, a sort of WINE for macOS software, which I didn't even know was a thing that existed until I was going through this process.

Create mac vm download#

Download & build darling-dmgР”Вownload the darling-dmg repository from here, and head on over to this directory in a Terminal window. We're not installing the tool, so the results stay contained within this folder. autogen.sh & make What's happening: We head into the xar sub-directory, run autogen.sh to generate the configure script, and then build the project with make. Download & build XARР”Вownload the XAR repository here, and open another Terminal window/tab and head over to where you have downloaded this repository. While this is downloading, let's set up a few additional things we'll need once the download is done. The tool keeps using an already downloaded file if it exists, so if you get a warning about something related to XML parsing or you're not getting the version you expect, try deleting the files found in content/catalogs/other and running the tool again. Note: If you have issues at this step, it is possible an incomplete plist file has been downloaded, or perhaps a complete but now out-of-date version. You should see a bunch of things fly by and the tool will start downloading a relatively humongous InstallAssistant.pkg file, clocking in at 12GB. Open up a Terminal and from the OSX-KVM repo you have just downloaded, and run. Go ahead and download the repo to your local machine. The main repo has since been updated and should automatically fetch the recent-most beta. Hopefully this'll get added soon, but for now you can head over to my fork where I've already applied the fix needed to get Beta 3 to download. There's a few minor tweaks we'll make to get Beta 3 to work, which at the time of this writing isn't yet working out of the box when relying on the original repo ( I have submitted a PR for this). Most of the work has been done by the amazing people who have created and keep this repository up-to-date. Check out the OSX-KVM repoР”В«oth literally and figuratively.

Create mac vm install#

sudo apt install build-essential cmake clang libfuse-dev libbz2-dev libudev-dev libxml2-dev linux-headers-generic pkg-config zlib1g-dev libicu-dev openssl Other utilitiesР”Р„lso be sure to install these tools if you don't have them already: sudo apt install dmg2img p7zip What's happening: We'll need dmg2img to convert an image file, and while 7zip is optional, it's a great compression and decompression tool that I highly recommend you keep around as it's super convenient. Please let me know if I did actually miss anything here. If one of the build steps later on this guide fails, it'll tell you what's missing so you can install it at that point. To be honest I already had most of these installed, so I am probably going to miss one or two in this list. We'll be building a few tools from source, so we'll need build tools installed for that. In my case I already had Python installed but I needed to install an extra package called python-is-python2 to get certain tools to work, but you might also want to make sure python2 is actually installed. We'll be using a few tools to fetch and extract the installer files needed right from your host machine. You do not need a physical Mac to download anything necessary to create this VM. As mentioned before, I'm focussing this guide on running Ubuntu 20.04 as the host OS. In this guide I'll assume you have already set up your host machine, including having set up QEMU, virt-manager, etc. Please check the relevant repositories for up-to-date information on this.

Create mac vm full#

The fetch-macOS script might need updating for future beta releases and the eventual full release. As of this writing, Big Sur 11.0.1 Release Candidate 2 (Beta 3) was the recent-most beta release.

In this article I'll focus on steps and commands that are tailored towards Ubuntu 20.04, but I'm sure you'll be able to tweak things a bit to tailor towards whatever flavor you're running to get things to work similarly.

Create mac vm how to#

Today I'd like to walk you through how to get Big Sur installed and up and running in a virtual machine on your Ubuntu or similar host machine.