We now want to prep the drive for installation. This step may take a few minutes, but a prompt will pop up to select a language to continue when it’s done. The macOS Big Sur operating system will begin to load. Back at the ‘Select start-up disk window, we should now have the BigSur ISO populated in the field, and we are ready to click ‘Start.’ select image, click startģ-e. Once selected, click on ‘Open’ and back at the window with the Big Sur ISO selected, click on ‘Choose.’ click the Add buttonģ-d. At the ‘Optical Disk Selector,’ click the ‘Add’ icon, and navigate to the folder where you have the Big Sur ISO file downloaded. We will be prompted to ‘Select start-up disk,’ click on the folder icon to the right Select folder iconģ-c. Start macOS Big Sur in VirtualBox imageģ-b. First, open VirtualBox and select the newly created install macOS Big Sur virtual machine on the left, then click the ‘Start’ button at the top. If you haven’t already downloaded it, click here to get it.ģ-a. Step 3 – Setup for install macOS Big Sur in VirtualBox Windowsĭuring this step, we will need to have the macOS Big Sur ISO file available. Once done, we can close out all the windows and start to load macOS Big Sur in VirtualBox Windows. Highlight and copy the next six lines, paste them in the command window, and hit enter. If you are not there, you must navigate there now before proceeding. Before proceeding, verify that you are in the above directory. This command will shift us to the VirtualBox windows directory, and we will be ready for the next commands. Now head over the command prompt (Start, type ‘cmd’ hit enter), paste the first line, and hit enter. (run command prompt as administrator) cd "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\"Ģ-c. Before replacement of VBoxNAME After replacementĢ-b. Click the ‘Replace all’ button, and this should convert all items with the new file name. In the ‘Replace with’ field, type in the name you called the VirtualBox (step2). Open the text file, go to the ‘Edit’ menu at the top, and then down to ‘Replace…” Here we want to type “VBoxNAME” in the ‘Find what’ field. If you haven’t downloaded the command file text, click hereto get it.Ģ-a. Now that the new VirtualBox is created, we need to run a few commands to modify it and proceed with running macOS Big Sur. 65GB is minimum recommend space Step 2 – Modifying VirtualBox with Command File Once complete, click ‘Create’ and finish the first step. I have tried 40GB and 50GB with many issues. In ‘File location and size,’ we’re leaving the default folder path, but below in the disk size, we want to increase it to at least 60GB. ‘Storage on physical hard disk’ will be Dynamically allocated. The ‘hard disk file type’ will also remain with the default VHD (Virtual Hard Disk). ‘Hard disk,’ we will leave the default ‘Create a virtual hard disk now’ and click ‘Create.’ Hard diskġ-e. Provide at least 8GB of RAM or 50% of availableġ-d.
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