Install MacOS virtual machine on Ubuntu

[@plica06]

Just discovered this video. I really like your style... everything is very clear but you don't waste time getting to the point. Subscribed!

[@EllisWhitehead]

Many thanks for this super helpful guide! For me, the installation stalled for about 6 hours at some point and just said "Estimating time remaining...", but I'm glad I left it going, because it worked in the end.

[@abhirams2288]

6hrs!!

[@braybray2269]

Where I'm at rn lmao

[@MazHoot]

for me it's stuck on "About a minute remaining..." since many hours (don't know how much). The first time it worked good but for install XCode I had to upgrade, so I tried to upgrade and now it's stuck :-( I hope it will finish to work...

[@sophiarodriguez1861]

6 hours?? Really?? 😲 Can you please share what hardware are you using (CPU, ram, disk, etc)?

[@sophiarodriguez1861]

@@MazHoot did it finish? 😅

[@dreecors]

just like the others, but now from Belgium Just finish installation. Still works great like a champ. Thank you so much.Such a great guide! Clear and to the point!Your tutorial is amazing. Clear and straight to the point . Keep it up...Thank you a lot for this guide. I have never seen such clear and simple explanation.....Abstract programmer for president...Merry Christmas, happy newyear

[@absprog]

Haha!! Thank you so much! The power of the internet, we really all live in one global village nowadays :-) Thanks for the kind words and happy holidays to you as well!

[@Robin-ww7xp]

Your tutorial is amazing. Clear and straight to the point . Keep it up

[@absprog]

Thanks a lot, that's great to hear :-)

[@sureface]

With just a few modifications, I managed to install and run Catalina on an M.2 external USB SSD. Thanks

[@absprog]

Cool 😎 Would you care to elaborate? What had to be done differently?

[@tenenzz3202]

Very smooth and clear guide, just amazing . Keep it Up 👌👍

[@absprog]

Thanks, will do!

[@saadsofttest7935]

Great explanation dude. Sounds GOOD Thanks for shring :) I also watch a lot of stuff before,but never had before like this kind.

[@kingokkings4965]

Nice video and explanation you will reach millions of subs soon all the best....

[@php4u]

Thank you for the tutorial, great job! Question - if I do the same can I perform over the air updates to macOS in the future? How are macOS updates performed?

[@ivanlau1123]

Just finish installation. Still works great like a champ. Thank you so much.

[@absprog]

Great to hear! Thanks!

[@fabrice230]

Hi Matan. Just a quick comment to thank you for this amazing tutorial, among so many others on your channel. Keep up the good work!

[@absprog]

Thank you for your comment Fabrice!

[@wazimuhb]

thanks a million times, I have mac running on my basic laptop, thumbs up

[@matthewlathum9312]

About a minute remaining ... result in endless waiting time!

[@josephfrancis3942]

great guide, worked for and being trying to make a macos vm for 3 days now with usb pasth could of added the last step to put into Virt-Manager as i bricked it but i saved it thanks so much

[@shantanudl]

WOW ! Explained fantastically. I am now fan of yours

[@absprog]

Thanks a lot! That’s really great to hear. Hopefully I can make more Linux related stuff you’ll find useful in the future!

[@CosmicHaven1]

Really helpful video! Just one question: Will the GPU acceleration on an RTX 3050 laptop work properly or like no GPU at all?

[@AmritPalSingh-uc7vz]

Such a smooth and great guide! To the point!

[@ramfrancisuk]

Matan you really explain this well and simply

[@rafaelmagallanesquintanar]

What a great tutorial! It works smoothly on POP OS. Now I'm going to upgrade OS X Catalina to Big Sur.

[@absprog]

Thanks! And please let us know how the upgrade went!

[@rafaelmagallanesquintanar]

@@absprog The upgrade to Big Sur runs without any problem and install it on the MainDisk but at the end of the process the machine boots again on Catalina. Any clues?

[@absprog]

I was afraid that something like that might happen... The guys who developed this project don't really support Big Sur yet. Sticking with Catalina is apparently the safest bet for now. Do you miss any specific feature from Big Sur? Or is it just that you would rather use the latest Mac version?

[@rafaelmagallanesquintanar]

@@absprog It was just for fun. I was tired of blue screen in windows, then I have installed POP OS and over that Vmware player. W10 runs terrific but OSX doesn't.

[@tejaspadhye]

What gpu are you using?

[@matthewlathum9312]

What I did wrong, is my computer os is Zorin 16.1 Pro with memory 27.3 GB Processor AMD Fx(tm)-850-eight-core X 8. I follow your useful video, while installing painful waiting time, after restarting the newly installed Mac again painful waiting time for every process is the same painful waiting time! Thank you for your tutorial, maybe something is wrong with my computer or Mac OS is so slow!

[@geoffrey9888]

i think this is even better than sosumi. Passing usb on sosumi is a nightmare but its easy on this.

[@FritsvanDoorn]

Great video. Very clear explained. Thank you.

[@SutboxSutty]

Nice and clear thank you you explain calm and clear

[@joskarstel3230]

Thanx a lot .. this is a perfect working macOS and a fantastic presentation

[@audiovid.]

Thank you for your support. May I have a qustion? Using this method the virtual machine is created on the fly right? Via the script. There are lines in the readme files which enable you to export the config into virt-manager. Once you export to virt-manager this machine stays saved? I am new to QEMU/KVM stuff so maybe it's a stupid question :)

[@absprog]

I'm not sure that I understood your question, but if you're asking how you can use it via the virt-manager GUI, you might want to take a look here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpDInKhnr92ap9k

[@muhammadfaqihudin8789]

Thank you for the easy to understand explanation.

[@drusso66]

Great video, really simple to follow working 1st attempt, would you be able to add a tutorial on how to add and use Virtual Manager for this setup.

[@absprog]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpDInKhnr92ap9k

[@media.magika5010]

hi. great, late in seeing this tutorial. sounds good. will this process work well with any ubuntu based distro or only the official ubuntu? Thanks & Regards... Moreover I do have a NVIDIA card 2G. Is that a problem?

[@absprog]

Every Ubuntu based distro will do. Your graphics card doesn’t really matter, as the virtual machine uses an emulated graphics card.

[@MsDareDevil1]

Hello, great video love it. But is there something we can do about graphic memory? its only 7MB

[@anmac6910]

yes plzzzz

[@olganerd]

Great video.if possible please make a video on how to include the gpu on the virtual machine.

[@premsagarrathor3986]

very nice work brother !!!! love from India👌👌👌

[@absprog]

Thank you so much 😀

[@ewertonlimadeandrade250]

Keep up! To me was really important, congratulations! Subscribed!

[@absprog]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@EarlOfBurl]

If you do have mouse issues: Switch to Xorg, Wayland isn't fully supported it seems.

[@galousisx]

Hi @Earl ofBurl I have mouse issue when I am login into virtual machine. My mouse pointer sometimes can't reach all places into this VM window.. How can switch to Xorg?? Something like a link to see details??

[@EarlOfBurl]

@@galousisx which distro are you using?

[@galousisx]

@@EarlOfBurl Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Thank you!!

[@haroldmora6385]

I'm using Ubuntu 21.04 with the same issue, any idea?

[@galousisx]

@@haroldmora6385 I was able to solve this. From your settings, try to increase the speed of the mouse.

[@sparklst3f877]

Nice tutorial! Is it now possible to install the latest macOS e.g. Sonoma on my Ubuntu 24.04 in my Classic Mac Pro 5,1 dual processor 2010?

[@MarcMcRae]

Can Apple make shit any MoRe complicated..LOL. Never buying Apple again. Ubuntu/Ryzen (NOT iNtel/aPple) will be more worth the investment. Big Slur..WOT a waste of time! Thanks Apple for f-ing up my 2017 MacAir without my permission! This was THE most straight-forward explanation on YT! Thank you.

[@educitoec]

Great explanation, i was going to buy a macbook air but now i am thinking on a ryzen 4800 laptop to have 3 OSs

[@absprog]

Thanks! I think it depends on the performance you want... A virtual machine will never be as capable as a physical one. But being able to hop between the 3 operating systems is really nice :-) Which one of the three you will be using the most?

[@kac5527]

Using 4800h for year and definitely impressive performance if you can go for 5800

[@buriedbits6027]

I have Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on mac, it's rather old iMac mid 2011. I installed it because I can only install macos 10.13.6 which is rather old and the machine, being still rather good could use an OS refresh - hence Ubuntu install. So far so good. I discovered this video and thought that maybe I can install Catalina as you did on this old mac but something tells me it won't work due to the hardware config of his mac. Am I wrong to think this way?

[@the_wanderering_stranger]

Thnx m8. It was a nice project.🤘

[@SunilPatil-oq2jc]

Thank you for great video. Works perfectly for me on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Only problem i see is when i play the any video on youtube inside macos, it get messed up. Too slow. I can display allocated for mac is 7mb only. is there way to modify it ? Also i have give 4 cores from my 6 physical core macos, still it show 2 cores allocation in about section of macos.

[@its_gireesh]

This looks like the best tutorial yet, I just wanted to know the graphical performance of the virtual machine? Has anyone tried Photoshop etc on it ?

[@bepopxxx]

Don’t even try it slow.

[@its_gireesh]

@@bepopxxx Even with passthrough. Sadly I can't try because I have Nvidia card

[@mohammedtalhi147]

Very well explained Thank you 🙏🏻

[@absprog]

My pleasure

[@lolo2lolo491]

great video man, how come u didnt allocated the physical gpu to the vm to get the full power ? do you have a tutorial about that ?

[@breadstickeatschildren]

How do you increase the video memory from 7MB to whatever you want?

[@أندرويد-ب6ف]

Man, you are great. I love you

[@absprog]

Thanks! 😃😃

[@horsestickmpg8400]

Very well done thanks for this video it helped me alot!!

[@absprog]

Glad to hear it! Thanks!

[@bajurski1964]

Great! It works now perfectly! A question: How to integrate this new VM into manager, so I don't have to execute each time basic.sh?

[@absprog]

Check out this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpDInKhnr92ap9k Hopefully it will help

[@ahmeism90]

Does it work smooth or it works like 10-15 fps?

[@michaelberg7201]

I've been trying with mixed results to get windows running as a guest under Ubuntu with pci gpu pass through. I guess you could do the same with Mac, but first can I ask what the performance is like just with all the defaults that you get from the basic installation demoed here? Not interested in games but apps for photo editing, like Lightroom or Luminar AI.

[@core-hacked]

I love how he says Jigga bytes :D

[@nolssmit]

After the installation, I tried to upgrade to Ventura but I'm out of disk space (I used 60 GB) for the virtual machine. How do I increase the disk space? I want to increase it to 100 GB. I presume MainDisk is the one.

[@shekharsajwan9990]

Excellent guide. Just my mouse is not working properly for some reason. It is moving but in the background of vm the ubuntu mouse is also moving. Its a problem to reach on certain apps and points on vm

[@chamahge3518]

In my machine qemu-img create -f qcow2 MyDisk.qcow2 35G the 35G which i allocated the partition isnt showing in the disk utility please help i have no allocated partition showing there

[@manassehbundi3062]

Please help.Everything broke when I select my laptop's native resolution 1366x768 and I can't repair it for default settings.I am not able to view anything

[@Grunchy005]

There's something wrong with this, QEMU isn't locking the mouse fully to the Mac-OS. Mouse pointer doesn't respond at all on guest VM, and when the pointer location leaves QEMU window the Linux mouse moves around, and once it goes to the QEMU window disappears again. To get the mouse to move on guest, I have to press Ctrl-Alt-G to "unlock" mouse, and then (while moving the mouse pointer in the desired direction) press Ctrl-Alt-G again. The mouse pointer on guest VM then moves a tiny little bit before freezing again. And I have to do this like 100x before I can move the pointer to the desired control. Mouse clicks go to the guest VM ok as do keyboard. Some kind of bug going on here...

[@WillsJazzLoft]

Hey fella, great video. I am running into a little bit of a speed_bump. I keep unlocking the mouse in the utility window and yet there''s no apparent change. Nothing highlights when I hover with the mouse. How can this be fixed? Thank you

[@MarioCastroArriaza]

great video. Good Works. I subscribed without doubt

[@absprog]

Hey, thanks! Much appreciated!

[@aunglanwint8671]

Thank you for the tutorial. After following the tutorial, now I am running " Catalina macOS " on my laptop on Debian KDE Linux. Everything seems to be working. When playing videos like KZbin on browser, I found out that video and audio are not synced exactly.Audio comes fast and later the video like 3 seconds delay.I wonder if it is normal or not.Please advise me. And the other thing is that file sharing option. Can we use files locate on HOST Linux partition? Thank you again.

[@kurtcrosbie]

currently running an nvidia gtx970. will switching to an amd gpu enable more than 7mb vram?

[@realabzhussain]

If you upgrade this to Big Sur does it break the VM? Thank you. Great explanations by the way.

[@samismydog]

I have no idea, but I'd recommend giving the vm a backup before updating it...

[@joakov3]

did it work?

[@YouWille]

Could I, please ask how I change the. ISO file from Catalina to 9.2 or 10.2.8? I downloaded a bunch of EMU but none of them is allowing me to do; Sosumi, VirtualBox, QuickEMU, none of them BasisliskII. But I would truly want to know is that if there are EMUs to install a MacOS system in this example, why they cannot emulate an HDD that I have MacOS installed on it straight away?

[@CalogeroZarbo]

Thx for the video! Would you please explain to me why you used QEMU and not VirtualBox?

[@absprog]

This method isn't supported by VirtualBox....

[@CalogeroZarbo]

@@absprog that I understood, but to achieve the same end result VBox can be also used, I'm wondering if you know any pros and cons between the two approaches.

[@alimmr2008]

Very nice! Thanks a lot

[@absprog]

Thanks and welcome

[@kaskotihon]

How do I increase the size of my disk after installation? Please tell me how to download the application if a message pops up: "There is not enough disk space..." The size of the created disk is 45 GB, the application size is 11 GB.

[@galaxiegalaxie5003]

thanks,please do video qemu and mac os big sur with audio passthrough.😁

[@MrRaziel0110]

Great video!!!

[@absprog]

Thank you!!

[@raudan2002]

Thank you very much for this video :) Now I can learn MacOS also :) I do have one question: do you know what to do in order to not run this command (after restarting the physical machine) "sudo chmod 666 /dev/kvm". I get the following message (after restarting the physical machine and run ./basic.sh in terminal): "Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied. qemu-system-x86_64: failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied"?

[@absprog]

Did you add your username to the kvm group?

[@princetanwar1938]

After changing resolution in OVMF Settings screen got glitched "Restarted many times, changed to default 1280×720 still problem is same" else great video help me to stuck out of it 🥺

[@tejaspadhye]

Run make.sh again using sudo ./make.sh

[@abhirams2288]

@@tejaspadhye I had the same problem and I saw this comment just when I started reinstalling it :( If I face this problem again, I will try this fix.

[@MazHoot]

Hello, i'm stuck with the message "About a minute remaining..." for many hours. Have you a suggestion? I installed mac os twice, the first time it worked good with catalina, but when I tried to install XCode (the reason for why I want macos) it says that I need upgrade mac os, so I tried to upgrade. I had not enough space so I resized the partition and tried again, everything went good except i'm stuck on this message.

[@guywhocodes]

hey what have u done than?

[@MazHoot]

@@guywhocodes if I good remember i just wait very lonnnnnnng time and it finally worked

[@guywhocodes]

@@MazHoot the upgrade worked? and whats ur disk size?

[@iqlessmemes4115]

Is it possible to install MacOS on virtualbox?

[@fares99]

I have followed you steps, but when I reached to minute 3:37, where to run ./basic.sh , I got an error message as bellow: Could not access KVM kernel module: No such file or directory qemu-system-x86_64: failed to initialize kvm: No such file or directory What to do ? Can you help me, pls.

[@absprog]

Try to follow the steps here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/foCrZ4ydhdB3qKc Then retry this installation. Hopefully it will help

[@subhakantaswain6157]

hi @Abstract programmer, Is this going to support macos 13&14 ?

[@standroads]

great video, but I have a problem with connecting my iPhone with macos, how can I do that please comment if someone knows it

[@nikonlaw]

help me please. I did everything according to the instructions, everything worked out for me, everything works. but one problem remained. after expanding the virtual machine window to the full screen 1920*1080 (ctrl+alt+f), my system screen rises by 1 cm. so I have a 1cm black bar at the bottom of the screen, but I can't see the menu bar at the top (until I exit fullscreen mode). what can i do about it?

[@ayanchatterjee6469]

Hi, I am not a technical person, and so this question may be foolish to you. If the host has a Nvidia quadro p2200 graphics card, will the installation of Catalina go through ?

[@rotshilljb2813]

Thx, I finish to run my KVM, at now at want to increase the storage capacity

[@vitaliygaltsev9239]

After installation it works good, but not for long time. After installing few updates (not system upgrade) QEMU holds and it isn't impossible do anything. Reboot of the QEMU takes it on a PAUSE and I can't even load OS. Are there some ideas how to fix it?

[@tomgirl366]

Does it work like original OS. I want to practice coding there n I want USB debugging support etc

[@rototom94]

Thank you so much man!

[@absprog]

You're very welcome!

[@danielchangel1]

Great job!! Everything is setup successfully as per your instructions, how do I setup to use with a virt-manager continuing your instruction?

[@absprog]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpDInKhnr92ap9k

[@danielchangel1]

@@absprog Can I email you regarding my questions...?

[@absprog]

Can you ask here? I'll try to answer what I know!

[@daver5105]

J Richards Everything went well until I ran the Disk Utility and MyDisk.qcow2 set at 35G did not show up in the Disk list. The macOS Base System at 2.01 GB shows, but no MYDisk.qcow2 at 35G

[@absprog]

Are you sure you added the disk’s filename to the script correctly?

[@daver5105]

@@absprog I think I figured it out. I believe I did not save the changes to the basic.sh file. I did it later and it worked. Thanks for the reply.

[@AndrewDeFaria]

Great video, however as soon as you try to install Monterey you'll hit that old "Well hell we're not making money on this so you can't run it" and the VM bricks... 😞 I want to try out Apple stuff but it constantly shows me that it continues to not play well with others...

[@anmac6910]

Can you do a video about GPU passthrogh so that all the GPU memory is used for the VM ?

[@Ankitsingh-kw4nc]

sir i have a laptop with 4GB Ram 250 GB SSD AND 500 GB HARD DISK ,and I install mac os on ubuntu virtualbox after disk utility and i reinstall mac os but mac logo appear and screen stucked ,no other task perform.so what can i do?

[@mbista60]

If I update the OS to 13.x will it still work? Please reply, I need 13.x to install XCode.

[@vickyk72]

Stuck at "estimating time remaining" for almost 2hrs Anybody know how long does it take??

[@tersee123]

It would be so so cool if you could make a template of the mac VM and create a copy on a Azure linux VM?

[@nahidusha]

First time i was able to set up mac os successfully ,but that time i gave only 30 gb for it and after setting up i feel i need more space thats why i have deleted whole kvm folder and then i started again with more space but after downloaded the macos catalina it can not install ,it show this warning ' resources not found macos cannot be installed on your pc ' . Please tell me how can i solve it . I think it can't recognise the path may be ,please tell me how can i solve it

[@emanuelvlad]

Does it matter if the processor of the physical computer is Intel or AMD?

[@diyorxalloqov]

how to set up mouse pointer it isn't work mouse pointer

[@sabbyLuthra]

I have only allocated 35GB space. How to expand the MainDisk space now ??

[@elsayeddev]

Thank you.. it is great.. But how can i upgrade os to download xcode

[@MiracleRed]

Hi Matan. I'm stuck on the networking setup, using guide-networking -from "Using Netctl" onward. I'm using Debian Buster, and netctl is not an installed service, so i don't know if I can advance past this point. Any help appreciated Thanks M.

[@tejaspadhye]

What error are you getting exactly

[@GMP93]

Its possible to update MacOS to the last one using the MacOS system update?

[@rsmage1219]

How do I install QEMU MacOS to an external hardrive on Ubuntu 20.04

[@vinoskey5243]

Perfect !!!

[@oleksiimoroz4909]

Thank you a lot!

[@absprog]

You're welcome!

[@thakelilehlonolo]

I have a problem sir. can you help I've change the screen resolution to 1366*768. not knowing that there's issues with that resolution need help please because when i launch the machine "./basic.sh" screen of the machine is not showing good things....

[@ITSUPPORTADVICE]

good job thanks

[@techshot2.0]

I have installed this system but forgot password, I didn't make Apple ID... please tell me what should I do?

[@diyorxalloqov]

mouse pointer qemu is leaving the virtual machine

[@fabricio4794]

32 Gigs Ram and Non NVIDIA Video Card,are good to Run Mac OS Smoothly?

[@nikonlaw]

i gave 4gb and 4 cores to system and o.k.