vbox Is it allowed here to talk about the installation of the Mac OS X on Virtualbox installed on FreeBSD ?

ZioMario

ZioMario

Hello.

I'm making some experiment to boot mac os x Monterey on Virtualbox installed on FreeBSD,only for educational pourpose. Since I'm not sure if I can make a post here,I want to ask it before to do that. And yes,sometime ago I've bought the original mac mini.
 
ziomario said:
And yes,sometime ago I've bought the original mac mini.
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If I recall correctly the license agreement of OS-X specifically only allows installation on Apple-branded hardware, which rules out VMs. So even if you have a valid license you're still not allowed to install it on a VM. But the exact wording of the license seems to have changed between various versions, so check yours.
 
I think that installing macOS as a guest normally requires the VirtualBox Extension Pack, which isn't supported on FreeBSD's open source edition of VirtualBox. I've tried installing it but it didn't work :

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VBoxManage extpack install --replace --accept-license=sha256 Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.34.vbox-extpack
Progress state: NS_ERROR_FAILURE
VBoxManage: error: Failed to install "/usr/home/marietto/Desktop/Files/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.34.vbox-extpack"
VBoxManage: error: Failed to locate the main module ('VBoxPuelMain')
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component ExtPackManagerWrap, interface IExtPackManager
VBoxManage: error: Context: "RTEXITCODE handleExtPack(HandlerArg *)" at line 1424 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp

so,this might be the end of the adventure.
 
I can't install Mac OS X/macOS on VirtualBox as VirtualBox Extension Pack that provides USB 2.0/3.0 is not available for FreeBSD,but there is no need of the USB support if I provide the ISO image of mac os X for the installation stage. Later,when it will be installed,maybe I can use this tool :

https://www.net-usb.com/usb-over-ip/#mac

since the USB Network Gate tool does not support FreeBSD,maybe I could run the server inside a Bhyve Windows or Linux VM and the client on the Mac Os X. Anyway at the moment I'm not able to boot mac os x Monterey at all. As soon as the installation starts,I see the stop signal.
 
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