1. Installing OS X El Capitan on VirtualBox should be straightforward but in reality requires quite a bit of command-line hacking Also read: Get El Capitan features in Yosemite.
2. Install Mac OS X El Capitan on VirtualBox. Before going to install Mac OS X El Capitan, you need to download VirtualBox. After that, you downloaded successfully VirtualBox install the software on your PC. Remember one thing that VirtualBox and VMware Workstation this too is one of the greatest tool Virtualization.
3. Download OS X El Capitan. In your Mac/existing Hackintosh/virtual machine running Mac OS X, open the Mac App Store app and download the latest version of OS X El Capitan. This is a 8 GB download, so it's probably going to take a while. Once the Mac App Store app finishes downloading OS X El Capitan, an update window will pop up.

I was recently asked by a client to port a simple web-based javascript program to an iOS app. I was pretty keen to try my hand at something new, however I’ve got a big idealogical problem with Apple – mostly because I think their hardware products are hugely overpriced for the specifications but also because of their annoying insistence that you have to develop for iOS on mac software. It’s not like Windows or Andriod which you can develop on any platform. So, I’m not willing to buy a mac (especially since I’ve just recently bought a nice new laptop), but I want to have a go at developing an iOS app…

Enter Virtualbox. It’s a piece of software that allows you to run a virtual computer ‘guest’ inside your standard computer ‘host’. I’ve used it before to have a separate windows installation for games and development, but I recently found out it was possible to run mac OS X too. It’s almost impossible to run OS X on anything other than official apple hardware, but it turns out the ‘guest’ machines created by virtualbox can be tweaked and are much easier to get OS X running. By the way you should know that this is not really in line with Apple’s T&C’s….

Realistically you are going to need a quad core processor with at least 8GB of ram on your host machine. Here’s a step by step guide:

In this document, I will guide you how to install Mac OS 10.11 on VMWare. Re: VBox Guest Additions - El Capitan Guest on Mac Hardware. Nov 2015, 20:08. There are no Guest Additions for any OS X guest, so you have basic VESA graphics only. If you have any further questions then post a VM log file: with the VM fully shut down, right click and 'Show Log' in the GUI, save 'VBox.log' (ONLY) to a zip,.

1. Download virtualbox (I’m using version 5.1) and install it, along with Winrar or 7zip and some torrent downloading software if you don’t have those already.

2. Download the mac OS X El Capitan virtualbox disk, and unzip it. The following link contains details of the download (you’ll need to follow my instructions to get the screen resolution and apple ID working correctly though..)
https://techsviewer.com/how-to-install-mac-os-x-el-capitan-on-pc-on-virtualbox/

3. Open virtualbox and click ‘New’ to create a new virtual machine with the following details:
Name: El Capitan
Type: Mac OS X
Version: Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan (64 bit)

Click next, select 4GB of RAM, and next again.
Select the El Capitan image that you have downloaded and unzipped as the disk image, and create the machine.

Back in the virtualbox manager, select your virtual machine and click edit.

In System>Motherboard, ensure that EFI is Enabled, Floppy id Disabled, Chipset is PIIX3.

In System>Processor, select two CPUs.

4. Open the windows command prompt as Administrator (type cmd at the start menu, right click and ‘Run as Administrator’)

You can leave the command line window open.

5. Boot the virtual machine, and complete the setup for location and keyboard but DO NOT sign in with an Apple ID because it will not work until we have completed some steps below.

6. Open safari, search for and download a program called Chameleon Wizard. You will probably need to change the system settings to allow non-app store programs to run. Open Chameleon Wizard and click on the SMbios tab.

Click Edit, and then select one of the pre-made SMbioses. Choose the type of mac you want (doesn’t really matter what, but best to resemble the virtual machine you’ve create I reckon), choose a manufacturing location and randomise the week of manufacture. It will generate spoof identification for the virtual machine. Copy down the Product Name; Board Product; and Serial and shutdown the virtua lmachine.

7. In windows, in the command line windows, enter the following commands, replacing the 3 items of information you just copied down.

8. The display resolutions are fixed and you can’t get all of them. To set up your display,
in the windows command line enter the following (Where N can be one of 0,1,2,3,4,5 referring to the 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1920×1200 screen resolution respectively.)

Close the command line window.

9. You can now boot the virtual machine, and will be able to log into it with an Apple ID. If you don’t have one, just google Apple ID and you can create one on the Apple website. You can then log into the App Store and will be able to download apps and update as per a standard installation.

This informative article will demonstrate the comprehensive guide to fix VirtualBox mistakes while installing Mac OS X. Most sites producing content about the installment of Mac OS X El Capitan or macOS Sierra on VirtualBox aren’t complete and have errors. The guide may be right and operate on a single device perfectly and with no issue. However, there are plenty of devices and various types of errors. A couple of weeks ago, we made a post on the way best to set up Mac OS X El Capitan on VirtualBox, and the traffic has different sorts of issues.

Minimum System Requirements to install MacOS X on Virtualbox:

Minimum system requirements to install MacOS X on Virtualbox are: (It will help run macOS High Sierra or later versions without any problem.)

• Minimum 2 GB memory (Recommended 8GB or higher)
• Minimum 2 cores of processors (Recommended 4 cores or higher)
• Hard disk free space 40 GB (Recommended 100GB or higher)
• Your system should support Intel or AMD VT (Virtualization Technology)
• Intel/AMD VT (Virtualization Technology) Should be enabled from BIOS setup

For fast performance, try installing macOS X on SSD rather than HDD.

Required: Enable Virtualization Technology (aka Intel VT or AMD-V). See video below.

Some key points to remember before Installing Mac OS X:

1) Intel CPU works better than AMD

2) Turn OFF Antivirus programs (Windows Defender) and Windows Firewall before starting the install

3) Set Video RAM to between 64-128MB

4) Use no spaces in VM name (ex: “MACOSX” not “MAC OSX”). Also, no punctuation. Also, re-verify:

VM Type: Mac OS X and Version: Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan (64-bit)

(These are in Virtualbox Settings->General)

5) Suggest use wired Internet, not WiFi, for initial download/updates, etc.

6) Run CMD window as Administrator when entering command-line commands.

7) May need to start Virtualbox as Administrator.

8) Be patient during initial boot up. It runs disk checks and other repairs… and can reboot a couple of times.

9) Be sure your HD or SSD has >80GB of free space. All the updates after initial installation gobble space.

10) Black Screen? Try video RAM > 64MB and Chipset = PIIX3

11) Do not install Virtual Box Extensions “CD”

12) Before adding commands on CMD, make sure you have quit your Virtualbox.

Unkown option –cpuidset

If you get this error “VBoxManage.exe: error: Unknown option. –cpuidset. The VM hangs on boot” while adding the first code in the Command Prompt. It’s because of the double hyphen. Use Double hyphen “- – “before cpuidset.

VBoxManage error: Could not find a registered machine named Your VM Name

If you get this error “VBoxManage error: Could not find a registered machine named Your VM Name“, it is because you haven’t used the correct name of your virtual machine when adding the codes on CMD.

You need to make sure you use the same VM Name you used when creating the virtual disk.

Missing Bluetooth Controller

If you get this error, make sure you close the virtual machine before adding the CMD codes.

Guru Meditation error or Black Screen

This error is majorly seen because of two issues-

The critical error happens due to the guest operating system. It is trying to switch to the PAE mode, which is currently disabled by default in VirtualBox. PAE support can be enabled using the VM settings (System/Processor)”.

1. Open VM VirtualBox
2. File -> Settings -> System -> Processor
3. Check Extended Features: Enable PAE/NX

OR,

For people with the black screen problem or Guro Meditationerror, change the operating system version from macOS 10.13 High Sierra (64-bit) or macOS 10.12 Sierra (64-bit) to just the Mac OS X (64-bit). If the error still exists, switch the Video Memory Size to 128 MB from Virtual machine settings. This is a significant issue with most of the users.

This version of Mac OS X is not supported on this platform Reason: Iloveapple

Make sure Virtualization Technology (VT) is enabled from BIOS.

error: VBoxManage setextradata “OSX” “VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/DeviceKey” “ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc” and you are stuck at appleKeyStore: operation failed (pid:30 sel:7 ret:e00002c2 ‘-536870206’)

Exit VirtualBox before adding codes to CMD

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Try to change the inverted commons throughout the virtual codes. Since you are copying the codes, you might be using the wrong inverted commas.

So, copy the codes in your notepad file, replace all the inverted commas via your keyboard and then try again.

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Invalid Virtualbox Version

Make sure you add the right virtual codes. You can download the correct version codes here-

Stuck in an infinite loop on Black Screen

Try using this command as the last command on CMD-

VBoxManage modifyvm “VM_name” –cpu-profile “Intel Core i7-6700K”

Or,

Try Motherboards Chipset – both PIIX3 and ICH9 one by one

install.nsh is not recognized as an internal command

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1st method:
If you get ‘install.nsh’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or script file. You have not attached the Virtualbox Boot Image.

See, https://www.geekrar.com/fix-macos-catalina-install-nsh-isnt-recognized-as-an-internal-error/

2nd method:
If you then get messages along the lines of ‘macOS Install DataLocked FilesBoot Filesboot.efi’ missing or not recognized:

run setup.nsh

now run, fs0:SystemLibraryCoreServicesboot.efi

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and all should now spring into life.

3rd method:

1. At UEFI prompt: Type exit
2. You’ll be brought into an EFI text-mode GUI.
3. Select Boot Maintenance Manager and click.
4. Select Boot From File and click

You should see two entries in a list (they are cryptic looking PCI bus paths).

The first PCI path in the list is probably the boot partition that doesn’t contain bootable firmware. The second PCI path is probably to the recovery partition, the one you need to boot from. If the 2nd partition isn’t the recovery partition, look under the paths in the list to see if one of them is it. If the recovery partition isn’t present and valid, these instructions won’t work.

Click the 2nd entry, you should see (and then click):

macOS Install Data

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Then click:

Locked Files

Then (if present), click

Boot Files

And finally click:

boot.efi

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The installation will continue, or you will boot into the OS or get the Recovery utility menu (where macOS can be reinstalled from or Disk Utilities run). The ambiguity of that last statement is I did that awhile before writing this comment, and I don’t recall what I booted into first, only that it worked and was not hard to figure out what to do at that point. If you have a recovery partition, to boot directly into the Recovery Mode, turn on the Mac and immediately press and hold (⌘)-R

Set screen resolution

Use the following command-

cd “C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox”

VBoxManage setextradata “VM Name” VBoxInternal2/EfiGraphicsResolution 1440×900

If you are still facing some issues, try using VMWare to install macOS on your Windows. When your current PC does not support Virtualbox and its configurations, try switching to VMWare. The process for it is relatively painless.

Share files and folders between Windows and MAC on Virtual Machines

You can go through this complete guide- How to share folders on VirtualBox & Vmware? (Windows-MAC) Step by Step Guide

I tried installing macOS Catalina on Virtual on Windows 10 on a low configration system. You can watch the video tutorial here-