You can do so using an archive program like WinRAR. Open the zip file in your web browser or Downloads folder. Then click Extract all or whichever option extracts the entire contents of the zip file. Be sure to save the contents to a location that you can remember. Part 2. Create a new virtual machine in VirtualBox. VirtualBox has an icon that resembles a computer screen in the shape of a cube. Click New below the blue icon that resembles a circle with jagged edges.
Type a name for the new computer next to "Name". Click the arrow pointing down next to "Machine Folder" and select a folder to install the virtual machine. Allocate memory to the virtual machine and click Next. Click and drag the slider bar to allocate memory to the virtual machine. You can also type the amount of memory in megabytes MB in the box to the right of the slider bar. The more memory you can allocate, the better it will run. You cannot allocate more memory than your computer has. Ensure the radio option next to "Create a virtual hard disk now" is checked.
It's the second option below "Hard disk. Click Create. This creates a new virtual machine. The next step is to create a virtual hard disk. Select where you want to save the virtual hard disk drive. Click the folder icon to the left of the bar below "File Location" to select where you want to save the virtual hard drive to. If your primary hard drive has plenty of space at least GB , it's recommended you leave it at the default location.
If you have a secondary hard drive for data storage, it's recommended that you save the virtual hard drive to the largest internal hard drive on your computer. Set the virtual hard drive size. Click and drag the slider bar below "File Size" to set the size of the virtual hard drive.
You can also type the number of GB in the box to the left. Keep in mind that macOS requires at least 35 GB of free space to install. You will need additional space for apps and files. It's recommended you allocate at least GB of hard disk space for your virtual drive. MacOS Catalina requires about It's in the lower-right corner. This creates a new virtual hard disk.
Part 3. Select the macOS virtual machine. Simply click the macOS virtual machine you just created in the list of virtual machines to select it. Click Settings. It's the yellow icon that resembles a gear. This allows you to tweak the virtual machine settings. Click System and uncheck "Floppy. Click this option and then click the checkbox next to "Floppy" in the "Boot order" box.
This ensures that the virtual machine will not try to boot from a floppy disk. Ensure "ICH9" is selected next to "Chipset. The Processor tab is at the top. You need to select this option if you are going to be installing a bit system, or if you need more than 4 GB of memory to run the operating system installed in VirtualBox.
Click and drag the slider bar below "Processor s " to set the number of processor cores you want to allocate towards the macOS virtual machine. The more cores you can allocate, the better it will run. It's recommended you allocate at least 2 cores. The red line above the slider bar indicates how many CPU cores are needed for your current operating system to run.
To avoid performance issues, do not drag the slider bar past the green line. Click Display in the menu panel to the left.
This opens the Display menu for the virtual machine. Allocate at least MB of video memory. The "Video Memory" slider bar is at the top of the menu. Click and drag the slider to allocate video memory.
You can also type the amount of video memory you want to allocate in the box to the right. Make sure you are allocating at least MB of video memory. The "Storage" menu option is in the menu bar to the left. If it is not, click the checkbox to check it. This allows the macOS to cache the image file itself. This results in better performance. Load the macOS Big Sur iso file into the empty optical drive.
Use the following steps to load the macOS Big Sur iso file you downloaded into the empty optical drive: Click Empty below "Storage devices. Click Choose a disk file. Navigate to and select the macOS Click Open. Switch the macOS virtual hard disk and optical drive places. This is a operating system with beautiful interface, however, to own a the computer of Apple with this operating system, you need to use a lot of money, normally with the double price than that of common computers using Windows operating system.
Download old version VirtualBox 5. VirtualBox 5. You can follow our blog for new images we release for VirtualBox. Try a virtual machine with VirtualBox It is free to use, has an outstanding performance, excellent quality on the virtual machine, and the downloading process is really easy. Is there a better alternative? Where can you run this program? Our take VirtualBox is the best free virtualization app out there.
Should you download it? Every feature and functionality of the macOS Mojave is outstanding. For example, High Sierra allowed you to change the menu bar and dock to dark color, indeed that changes made the look a bit bright. Mac OS Read this first. The installer package seemed to run OK but at the end it gave an error message. Hi, im having issues downloading the MacOS Big Sur beta ISO, when it finish downloading it give an error saying the file is damaged, i tired downloading again but it keeps giving me the same error every time.
What is your system specs? In addition, using virtualbox is far less complicated than the dual boot hackintosh method we have looked at previously. The mouse pointer is stuttering all the time when moved and starting an application takes several seconds Thanks a lot for this pretty useful guide, which helped me to install Big Sur on VirtualBox on Windows 10 rel We really appreciate your time Jordan.
Your setting should look something like the screenshot below. Did even the download twice in case it got corrupted but did a file compare by content and it was ok. Hello, sorry I do not speak English I am Italian, the guide and excellent is working for me, the only flaw and that you do not hear the audio, solutions? Followed your steps and have Big Sur Beta 11 up and running.
If you have installed Virtualbox in another folder then you may have to cd to that folder. To me stops at installation, always show 3 minutes remaining but nothing is happening.
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