Install Ubuntu On Mac Virtualbox

Install VirtualBox and setup a virtual machine with Ubuntu on MacOS February 1, 2021 February 2, 2021 This blog post does contain a very short cheat sheet for me and maybe it is also useful for you: How to install VirtualBox and setup a virtual machine with Ubuntu on a Mac OS host system, by using various documentation resources from the internet. This is a very basic walkthrough tutorial on how to install Ubuntu 18.04, or different Linux Distributions, on your Mac OS using Virtual Box. It’s very important to note that at the time of writing this, it is July 2019 and these steps might differ as different versions of VirtualBox and Ubuntu are released. At the time of writing I am running Ubuntu 20.04 and Virtualbox 6.1.6. If you do not yet have Virtualbox running with Ubuntu installed, go ahead and follow my tutorial on how to get this up and running first. If you plan to install a fresh copy of Ubuntu, I would recommend downloading Quartus in the background as the file is large and may take. Step 6: Install Sierra. Insert sierra.iso to the sierra VM’s optical driver, and follow the instruction to install Sierra. Note: In the installer, Go to Utilities Disk Utility. Select the VirtualBox disk and choose Erase to format it as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) drive. Step 7: Remove sierra.iso and restart VM. Soon enough, you’ll be right inside of macOS, where you’ll be able to start using your mac virtual machine on Windows. Having a virtualbox mac OS is the easiest method of using mac as and when you need it. In addition, using virtualbox is far less complicated than the dual boot hackintosh method we have looked at previously.

MacOS VirtualBox VM on Ubuntu

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Posted by Shujin Wu on February 23, 2017

Step 1： Download the Sierra installer from Mac App Store.

This should be done in you Mac and the installer will be placed in /Application/ folder.

Step 2: Prepare Sierra iso

Use geerlingguy’s script to prepare a sierra iso file.

Install Virtualbox Ubuntu On Mac

Step3: Install VirtualBox in Ubuntu

You should have your VirtualBox and the Extension Pack installed, or use my ansible role

Step 4: Open VirtualBox and create a new VM.

Settings:

name: your_sierra_vm_name
type: Osx
version: Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan (64-bit)
Other

Step5: Configure VM for MacOS (Very important!)

Run following commands and replace “Sierra” with ‘your_sierra_vm_name’.

Step 6: Install Sierra

Insert sierra.iso to the sierra VM’s optical driver, and follow the instruction to install Sierra.

Note: In the installer, Go to Utilities > Disk Utility. Select the VirtualBox disk and choose Erase to format it as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) drive.