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1. #SET UP MAC OS MOJAVE VM INSTALL#
2. #SET UP MAC OS MOJAVE VM UPGRADE#
3. #SET UP MAC OS MOJAVE VM FULL#
4. #SET UP MAC OS MOJAVE VM SOFTWARE#

We’ll be using OpenCore as a bootloader for Catalina. Building the offline installer requires you to have a Mac, here are the instructions. If you won’t have an Internet connection available to Catalina during installation, or your network can’t provide an IP address by DHCP you’ll need to build an offline installer instead. Upload the “ISO” to your Proxmox server’s ISO store (typically /var/lib/vz/template/iso). The result is actually a raw disk image, not a true ISO, but Proxmox has better tools for picking and re-using ISO images than disk images. Qemu-img convert BaseSystem.dmg -O raw Catalina-installer.iso # Or use qemu-img from the qemu-utils package to do it instead:

#SET UP MAC OS MOJAVE VM INSTALL#

Or like so if you’re building this on Linux: # Install the dmg2img package and.ĭmg2img BaseSystem.dmg Catalina-installer.iso Convert that dmg into an “iso” like so if you’re building this on macOS: hdiutil convert BaseSystem.dmg -format UDRW -o Catalina-installer.iso This results in a ~500MB “BaseSystem.dmg” file in the current directory.

#SET UP MAC OS MOJAVE VM SOFTWARE#

Download and run fetch-macOS.py in a terminal to download the Catalina recovery image from the Apple software distribution server (this can be run on Linux, Proxmox, or on a Mac): The easiest installer to build is a recovery image, which will download Catalina during installation. Modern AMD CPUs also support SSE 4.2 and will work with this guide. Older CPUs will cause the finder to repeatedly crash after installation completes (with an Illegal Instruction exception in the graphics code). Your Proxmox host computer’s CPU must support SSE 4.2, so for Intel your CPU must be at least as new as Nehalem, which was the first CPU generation to bear the “Core” i5/i7 branding. You also need a real Mac available in order to fetch the OSK key. I’ll assume you already have Proxmox 6.1 or 6.2 installed. If you’d like to use Clover instead, use my older tutorial, but OpenCore works better! Requirements

#SET UP MAC OS MOJAVE VM FULL#

You can get the full sourcecode on my GitHub here. This tutorial for installing macOS Catalina using OpenCore has been adapted for Proxmox from Kholia’s OSX-KVM project and Leoyzen’s OpenCore configuration for KVM. Not every question will be answered, we don’t reply to email, and we cannot provide direct troubleshooting advice.MacOS 11 Big Sur has now been released! If you’d like that version instead then please use my new Big Sur installation guide! If not, we’re always looking for new problems to solve! Email yours to screen captures as appropriate, and whether you want your full name used. We’ve compiled a list of the questions we get asked most frequently along with answers and links to columns: read our super FAQ to see if your question is covered. This Mac 911 article is in response to a question submitted by Macworld reader John. Parallels right now charges $49.99 for a version upgrade, while VMware has as $79 price tag on it.

#SET UP MAC OS MOJAVE VM UPGRADE#

These are one-time prices, not yearly licensing fees, but the changes made in each version of macOS related to virtualization software is significant enough that you will need to purchase an upgrade each time you want to move to a later version of macOS. VMware also makes a more limited, personal-use-only version of Fusion available at no cost for home users. Parallels costs $79.99 for the home edition  VMware Fusion is $149 for its basic version. Launch the app when you need Mojave otherwise, it can stay on standby and no reboot is required.Ĭost is the only thing that might hold you back. With either Parallels or VMware Fusion, you can start with a clone of your Mojave installation or install one from scratch, and then keep Mojave running in a bottle forever.