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These make the appropriate settings to fool OS X to thinking you’re on a real Mac. You may need to edit it depending on what you named your VM. The order of those two don’t matter.Īfter configuring the VM in the UI, close VirtualBox and run the following commands, of which I’ve created a convenient all-in-one script here. Storage: One controller, first item is USB shim, then the hard drive and “Empty” optical drive.Display, Screen, Accelerator: 3D and 2D both unchecked.Display, Screen, Scale Factor: 100% (you can change this later if you’re on a high-res display).System, Processor, Enable PAE/NX: Checked.System, Motherboard, Extended Features: Enable I/O APIC, Enable EFI, Hardware Clock in UTC Time, all checked.System, Motherboard, Pointing Device: USB Tablet.System, Motherboard, Boot Order: Only Optical and Hard Disk checked.System, Motherboard, Base Memory: 4096 MB.After performing the steps above, you’ll be using the following settings in your VM:.I’ve also included some screen shots a little further down. You already have an installer on the thumb drive.Īside from the defaults, confirm the settings you have match settings below. Once you’ve added the hard drive, you’ll need to finish configuring the VM. If that’s a big deal, save the VM’s drive to a location that will have enough space. Note: XCode uses a lot of space when it updates. Don’t skimp on size here or you’ll be reinstalling later.

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Ignore that my screen shot shoes 40 GB In future steps you’ll need to install XCode and Xamarin Studio. I suggest VDI format, dynamically sized, and 60 GB in size.

Add another Virtual Disk to stand in as your Mac’s hard drive.

You should now have a VM, like every other time you’ve used VirtualBox 🙂.

The example above saved the file as usb.vmdk at the root of C:

When asked which drive to use, choose an existing drive, and select the USB shim you created in the previous section.

I didn’t test with any other memory configs. VirtualBox’s settings aren’t fully correct, but we’ll get there.

Create a new Virtual Machine, name it Sierra – although that’s not a requirement – and choose OS X 64-bit as the guest OS.

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Ignore the download portion – you already have an install thumb drive, and you just want the VM configuration steps. Then, follow the instructions on this page. Right-click VirtualBox and select Run as Administrator. Windows won’t allow VirtualBox to use the USB shim you just created unless you launch with administrator privileges.

You’re now ready to create the VirtualBox virtual machine.

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename C:\usb.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive#

Navigate to %programfiles%\oracle\virtualbox.

Open command prompt as an administrator.

Open Disk Management and get the Disk Number of the thumb drive, as shown below.

You’ll need to create a fake virtual disk that points to the USB drive. You have a USB thumb drive, but VirtualBox doesn’t make it easy to boot from such a device.

You’re now ready to start configuring VirtualBox.

Download and Copy Multibeast to the newly created Unibeast drive.

This will take about 10 minutes on a USB 3 drive.

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You’ll need a account on the Tony Mac x86 site to download, fyi.

Download and Run Unibeast and follow the prompts.

Make a copy of it somewhere, just in case it gets deleted and you need it again.

The installer will be saved in your Applications folder.

Download the macOS Sierra installer via the App Store.

Launch Disk Utility and format the USB drive with the name USB and the format of GUID Partition Map. In a nutshell, here’s what you’ll be doing in this step:

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Here is a marked-up PDF of the article in case the link doesn’t work. When asked whether to use UEFI or Legacy boot mode, choose Legacy. Special thanks to the Hackintosh website. If you’re all set with the above, follow the instructions at the awesome Tony Mac x86 website. We’ll be extracting a Sierra installer in a moment. I’d go the USB 3.0 or higher route so things run a bit faster. I imagine you own both Mac OS and the drive. We’ll be using Unibeast, Multibeast, and the Clover bootloader.

16GB or larger thumb drive, preferably USB 3įirst things first – you’ll need a Mac running Sierra and at least a 16 GB USB thumb drive.

Intel powered machine, preferably i5 or higher.

macOS X Sierra Installer, or a machine with Sierra installed – extraction details below.

Wouldn’t it be nice to just run OS X in a VM so I could use my Surface Book and not mess with the Apple ecosystem more than necessary? Well, I finally got it working, thanks in large part to the work that’s been done by many people, links of which I’ll credit in this article.

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I’ve been struggling with carrying a Mac and PC for Xamarin development for a couple years now.