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If you name it something like “OSX” VirtualBox will automatically select the type of Virtual Machine you want to create (“Mac OSX”):Ĭlick “Continue” and select then the memory size in the next screen.

You can do this by clicking the blue icon (“new”) at the top: Creation Proceed creating a new Virtual Machine.

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Open now VirtualBox (you can download it there: “ “).

and we’ll instruct it to mount it in a location where we will then intend to access its content.

We’ll no verify the image (with the checksums): “ -noverify“.

We’ll tell the system to hide the content of this disk from Finder with: “ -nobrowse“.

We’ll then proceed to attach this disk image and at the same time: (So essentially in: “ /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/ Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg“) Inside its content: “/ Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg” The disk we want to attach is contained in the app you downloaded from the App Store: “ /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app” We achieve this using the “ hdiutil” command: “ attach“. Effectively simulating a device (the installation disk in this case) attached to our mac. It is a command used to manipulate disk images and you can find detailed about this command here:įirst thing we need to do is attaching the image of the installer (that we downloaded) as a device. We’ll make heavy use of the “ hdiutil” tool. I will put the whole list of commands at the end of this article, but I will explain every line to make it clear what’s going on.

What we’ll need to do is manipulate the installer disk in order to make it ready for our Virtual Machine to understand. I wrote a dedicated post for this and you can find it here:Ĭreate Mac OS X Installer USB Disk Time to do some magic!Īs it stand the installer will not work on the Virtual Machine (and you will experience the error I mentioned at the start of the article). The very first thing to do is to download the OS X Installer.

Proceed creating a new Virtual Machine.

The image is ready to use in VirtualBox.

Copy the System Installer to the new disk image Please follow the below steps to set it up. So when you run the macOS in the virtual machine for the first time, it will popup Keyboard Setup Assitant to identify your keyboard.

If you run macOS in a virtual machine in Windows, your keyboard can not match the mac os keyboard absolutely.

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How To Setup Mac OS Keyboard In Virtualbox Virtual Machine. Click the USB item in the left panel of the popup macOS-Settings dialog, then select the USB 3.0(xHCI) Controller radio button in the right panel.Select the virtual machine in the VirtualBox left panel virtual machine list, click the Settings button at the top menu bar to open the virtual machine settings popup window.Then select Power off the machine radio button, click OK to close it. Power off your virtual machine by clicking the close button of the VirtualBox window.

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1.1 Make Your Virtual Machine Use USB3.Īfter you install the VirtualBox extension, you can make your virtual machine use the USB 3 port follow the below steps. You can read the article How To Install Virtualbox Extension Pack Correctly. After installing the VirtualBox extension, it will support both USB 2 & USB 3.

Because maybe your mouse or keyboard is plug in a USB 2 or USB 3 port, but the VirtualBox virtual machine does not support it. The easiest way to fix this issue is to install a VirtualBox extension pack. How To Resolve Mac OS Mouse & Keyboard Stuck In VirtualBox Virtual Machine.