

This is often the case when you inadequately estimate how much space is required for properly installing in a virtual machine with dynamically allocated storage. Samuels, without whom I could not have updated this guide for High Sierra.If you use VirtualBox to run guest operating systems within a virtual machine on the Mac, like Windows 10 or Ubuntu Linuxyou may find yourself needing to resize the virtual disk size where the OS resides. Start up VirtualBox, load up your virtual machine, and it should boot to your preferred resolution!įrom now on, you can open VirtualBox for any Mac-related testing you want to do. In the second command, you need to replace the N with a number from one to five, depending on what resolution you want. You need to run the following two commands. Instead, you need to enter a few commands. Have fun! If you try to change the resolution from within macOS, however, you will see no option to do so. Blkmarket freeīut a lot of the basic stuff should work. Eventually the virtual machine will reboot again, this time into macOS High Sierra.

The installer will pick up where it left off. This will switch directories to FS1, where the rest of the installer is located. Turn off your virtual machine and open its settings. At this point the installer has copied files onto the virtual hard drive, and expects to boot from there. Eventually your virtual machine will restart and take you…back to the installer. The installation will begin! This might take a while, so be patient. You should now see your empty virtual drive in the sidebar. You should only worry if a specific error hangs for five minutes or more. Paste the following commands, pressing Enter after each one and waiting for it to complete. You need to run a number commands, in order. Choose VDI for hard disk type and click Next. Copy it to your Windows machine using a large flash drive, an external hard drive, or over your local network. Whether you want to occasionally test a website in Safari, or try out a little bit of software in the Mac environment, having access to the latest version of macOS in a virtual machine is useful. Joinsubscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles.
