The “System Type” of your copy of Windows needs to be 64-bit, because OS X Mountain Lion is a 64-bit operating system. If you have a 32-bit copy of Windows, you can only install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on Virtualbox. Mar 25, 2015 If you want to try Linux, you can run Ubuntu on your Mac with VirtualBox, or many versions of Internet Explorer in different Windows VMs, Windows 8, even Android 4, older versions of Mac OS X like Snow Leopard, and much more, you can explore our VirtualBox section for more.
I tried to install VirtualBox on macOS High Sierra, but I got an error about kernel drivers, system extensions, and kernel modules not being installed. The VirtualBox installer fails with “The installation failed” where it “encountered an error that caused the installation to fail.”
This guide has been updated for macOS Mojave as well.
Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy. Click the ‘Allow’ button at the bottom. Re-run the installer. More detailed instructions are below.
VirtualBox has an error when installing.
- Run the VirtualBox installer just like any other installer.
- You might see a prompt from macOS about not allowing unsecure system extensions. You can click ‘Next’ for now.
- After reaching the end, installation will fail with the message above.
- Navigate to System Preferences > Security & Privacy. At the bottom of the window, you should see a message saying “System software from developer, ‘Oracle, America, Inc.‘ was blocked from loading.”
- Click the lock in the bottom left corner, enter your password
- Click ‘Allow’ next to the ”blocked from loading” message.
- Re-run the VirtualBox installer. It should succeed.
How to add a shared folder for Ubuntu on a macOS High Sierra Host?
Here’s how to share files between a Ubuntu virtual machine and macOS High Sierra on VirtualBox.
- Download, set up your VM. See above.
- Open settings for the VM. Click the “Shared Folders” tab. Add your folder and select Yes for “Auto-mount”
- Run the VM
- While the VM is running, in the Mac menu bar go to Devices > Optical Drives > Choose disk image…
- Select the VirtualBox Guest Additions image, for me this is located at
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
. Once theChoose disk image…
option was selected, you were probably shown a file picker. Press Command-Shift-G and then type in that file to choose theVBoxGuesAdditions.iso
. - You might need to force mount/unmount. You’ll be prompted by VirtualBox if this is necessary.
- Restart your VM.
- Run the following command to install prerequisites for the Mac VirtualBox Guest Additions:
sudo apt-get -y install gcc make linux-headers-$(uname -r)
- Then run
sudo /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
to install the Guest Additions - Restart your VM again.
- Run
sudo usermod -aG vboxsf USERNAME
whereUSERNAME
is your guest OS username. This will let your user access the shared folder. - Your folder will be at
/media/sf_FOLDER_NAME
, socd /media/sf_FOLDER_NAME
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VirtualBox is an open-source hypervisor software product originally created by Sun, and now maintained by Oracle. VirtualBox is multi-platform and runs on Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and other systems. When hosted on Mac OS X, you can run a virtualized copy of Mac OS X Server version 10.6. With Mac OS X 10.6 Server running in a virtualized instance, you can make changes to the virtual machine without affecting the configuration of the host computer. This is useful for trying out new configurations to see how they will affect different aspects of the computing environment.
1.Insert the Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard Server disc into the disc drive.
3.Click 'Continue,' and enter a name for the virtual machine.
4.Click 'Mac OS X' under the 'Operating System' category, and then choose '32-bit' or '64-bit' under the 'Version' category. Click 'Continue.'
5.Enter the amount of RAM to allocate to the virtual machine, and then click 'Continue.'
6.Follow the on-screen prompts to create a new virtual hard drive file.
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Click the 'Start' button to power on the virtual machine and begin the install. Follow the on-screen prompts to install Mac OS X Server version 10.6 into the virtual machine. When the installation process is finished, you can run 10.6 in the virtual machine as if it were an actual computer.
Things Needed
- Snow Leopard Server installation disc
Tip
- Although VirtualBox is multi-platform software, the Mac OS X Server version 10.6 license states that the virtualized instance of Snow Leopard Server must be running on a Macintosh host computer.
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