Virtualbox 6.1.3 fails to boot Catalina 10.15.2 about macinbox HOT 14 CLOSED

@jaanus I have not personally confirmed that Parallels or VMware Fusion work with 10.15.2 or 10.15.3, but I also have not heard any reports about those failing, either.

I should be able to confirm that this issue does not impact Parallels later today.

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Hi @adamwolf, thank you for writing this up. This looks similar to the issue reported here: AlexanderWillner/runMacOSinVirtualBox#95

...which may in fact be in a bug in Virtualbox:
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19188

The stated workaround, of using a previous OS version's boot.efi, is not really viable for macinbox. I think best path forward right now if you want to use macinbox is to either use Catalina 10.15.1 instead of 10.15.2, or Parallels instead of Virtualbox.

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Wow! What a fast response!

Is there a way for me to build a 10.15.1 base while being on 10.15.2?

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The same issue with 10.15.3 just has checked the macinbox with it.

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Yes, you can build a 10.15.1 box while being on 10.15.2. You just need a copy of the 10.15.1 installer someplace. You can use the --installer or --installer-dmg options to override which installer is used as the source. You might be able to use installinstallmacos.py to download a 10.15.1 installer if you don't currently have one.

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Thanks! I can't find any way, from softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer to installinstallmacos.py or even just google, to download 10.15.1 or 10.15.0 anymore.

This is going to be trickier than I thought.

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@bacongravy can you confirm that this is specific to Virtualbox, and that you have seen 10.15.2 working in Parallels?

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@adamwolf If you're willing to use a box that someone else built, check out this project: https://app.vagrantup.com/ramsey/boxes/macos-catalina

I haven't tried myself, but from reading the documentation it looks like you could get a Virtualbox-format box with macOS 10.15.1 from Vagrant Cloud. I can't vouch for the contents of the box, though. Use at your own risk!

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I was able to use macinbox to generate a VMware Fusion box from the 10.15.3 installer and the box boots successfully with VMware Fusion 11.5.1.

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I was also able to use macinbox to generate a Parallels box from the 10.15.3 installer and the box boots successfully with Parallels Desktop 15.0.0.

HOWEVER, if I use Parallels Desktop 15.1.2 to create the box, then the created box fails to boot. (15.1.2 can boot the box created by 15.0.0.) It appears that the prl_convert tool is producing an unbootable hdd with version 15.1.2. This is an entirely unrelated issue that I will file separately.

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@bacongravy I can confirm the box made with Parallels Desktop 15.1.2 doesn’t start

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The bug in VirtualBox appears to have been fixed in the 6.1.4 release. I'm able to run macOS 10.15.3 boxes without issue.

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@schrodincat The issue with Parallels Desktop issue have been filed as #49. Thanks for the confirmation.

Since the issue with VirtualBox has been fixed with the 6.1.4 release I am going to close this issue.

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