The operating systems basically run within an application, which virtualizes the hardware, and the OS itself doesn’t know the difference. With VirtualBox, you can install multiple operating systems on a single computer and seamlessly switch between them as you desire. Unlike a Hackintosh, you don’t need any special hardware to get macOS up and running on your computer. Instead, you will be running VirtualBox natively on your Windows computer and installing macOS as a guest operating system within VirtualBox. To establish a direct “link” between host and guest go to the VirtualBox’s Preferences and create a host-only network like it is shown on screenshots:Īfter that you can run ifconfig on your MacOS host and see that vboxnet0 was created.Before you start making assumptions, this is not a super-complicated Hackintosh setup. Networkīy default guest machines get only NAT network, so they have access to internet, but they are “invisible” for their hosts - you can’t even ping it. Guest machine is running fine, but how to exchange files with it? There are ways to do it via shared folder or even drag-and-drop from host, but I prefer to use an SSH server and connect via SFTP, since it’s Linux we’re talking about anyway. But it’s just too damn expensive ($80) and I haven’t decided yet it will be my main editor. …Yes, I have an unregistered Sublime Text. If video doesn’t play in your browser, you can download it here So, that was the last of my problems and now I can easily switch between my Mac OS host and Linux virtual machine using 3-finger swipe just like this: For me performance of guest-machine got significantly improved. Now simply reboot you guest-machine and choose LXDE at logon screen. Open terminal in your guest-machine and install necessary packages:Īnd that’s it. To have more you need to download Extension Pack for VirtualBox (and install Guest Additions for guest-machine). Having done that you might notice that you can only have maximum 1024x768 resolution. Insert Linux installation image (I usen Debian) into machine, start it and install Linux there. In that case you’ll need to go to Security & Privacy and allow it ( Open Anyway).Ĭreate a new virtual machine. Nothing special here, except for maybe Gatekeeper (or whoever) that might block VirtualBox from installing/starting. Install VirtualBox and create a machine.

The aim is to get a Linux guest-machine running in a fullscreen mode on a dedicated desktop (screen) with a decent performance. But actually it’s not about Mac OS and all the steps will be the same for Windows and Linux hosts too. In this article I’ll try to get into all (okay, maybe not all) possible troubles related to using a VirtualBox guest-machine with Linux, running on a Mac OS (High Sierra, 10.13) host.

Run macos on linux virtualbox