Saturday, April 18, 2020

Installing mac OS (Mojave 10.14.3 HFS) on Oracle VirtualBox on Windows PC with AMD processor

How to Install macOS Mojave on VirtualBox on Windows PC with AMD Processor


I'll show you on how I install mac OS Mojave 10.14.3 HFS in my PC using Oracle VirtualBox

High level Specification of my PC:
  • AMD processor
  • 8GB RAM 
  • Windows OS

What is VirtualBox?

VirtualBox is a free software developed by Oracle. This software allows you to create a Virtual Machine controlled by either Linux, Windows or Mac. In other words, an operating system inside an operating system or a virtual computer inside of your machine.



In order to start with the Steps we need the following software,

  1. Download VirtualBox in their official Website: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads 
    • I select Windows hosts since I'm using Windows OS 
  2. Download VirtualBox Extension pack in their official website: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
    • Click 'All supported platforms' under VirtualBox 6.1.6 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
  3. Download macOS 10.14.3 in my Google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HTe9pVKVcFWrGBzlTErUYnkaO6UN_TnY/view?usp=sharing

Steps to follow to Install macOS Mojave 10.14.3 on Oracle VirtualBox on Windows

Part 1: Install VirtualBox and Extension pack
  1. Double click the VirtualBox-6.1.6-137129-Win.exe and install it on your preferred location. In my case I install it by default settings location which under C:\Program Files\Oracle
  1. To install Extension pack. Open Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, Click File > Preferences > Extensions > Click Add new package and select the one that you've downloaded

Part 2:  Create a new Mac OS Virtual Machine
  1.  Open Virtual Box and locate the "new" button at the the top of the window. This will open up the wizard for creating a new Virtual Machine.
  2. Provide Virtual Machine Name "Eg. MacOS_Mojave", Type to Mac OS X, & Version to Mac OS X.
  3. Click Next Enter Memory size. (Eg. 4096MB)
  4. Click Next, Click 'Use an existing virtual hard disk file' and select the file you've downloaded in my Google drive.

  5. Click Create.
Part 3: Editing the Virtual Machine Settings
  1. Select the Virtual Machine that you created and click Settings.
  2. Under System tab, uncheck Floppy and uncheck Hardware Virtualization under Accelaration tab.
  3. Under Display tab, set Video Memory to Max value (128 MB)
  4. Under USB tab, select USB3.0 (xHCI) Controller
  5. Under Shared Folders, click the Add new shared folder icon and select the path. Check the Auto-mount option
Part 4: Add code in VirtualBox
  1. Open command prompt. On Windows search bar Type 'cmd' and Run as Adminstrator
  2. Change directory to Oracle Virtual Box installation path. cd C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox
  3.  Copy and paste the code below then press Enter:

VBoxManage.exe modifyvm "Your VM Name" --cpuidset 00000001 000106e5 00100800 0098e3fd bfebfbff
VBoxManage setextradata "Your VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemProduct" "iMac11,3"
VBoxManage setextradata "Your VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemVersion" "1.0"
VBoxManage setextradata "Your VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiBoardProduct" "Iloveapple"
VBoxManage setextradata "Your VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/DeviceKey" "ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc"
VBoxManage setextradata "Your VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/GetKeyFromRealSMC" 1

VBoxManage modifyvm "Your VM Name" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i7-6700K"

 Part 5: Run MacOS on VirtualBox
  1. Select and Click Start your Virtual Machine. This should take a while
  2. Setup MacOS
  3. That's all
 

Summary:

To be able to use Mac OS on Windows PC with AMD processor you must need to learn on how to use and install Mac OS on VirtualBox. By doing this steps you can enjoy all features same with the normal Mac OS Apple PC.

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