Troubleshooting in macOS Virtualbox VM.

Hey there, Chris here with another blog regarding troubleshooting in MacOS VM in Virtualbox. There are a few issues with vbox Mac VM which I'll try to sort out here. Those few problems include-
  1. MacOS VM stucking somewhere while booting in the EFI shell.
  2. MacOS is not booting or extremely slow.
  3. MacOS worked but now it's showing installation window again.
  4. Pop up window showing "Your copy of MacOS is damaged and couldn't be used to install MacOS"
These are the most common problem and I'll be mentioning solutions to them.If you encounter any other problem then contact me.
                                      Mac stucking somewhere while booting.
This is a very common problem and occurs frequently in the method I mentioned.You just need to see where it stucks. If it runs no further than the directory where your boot.efi is located then run 'boot.efi' and you VM will start running.The entire commands are-
  • cd System
  • cd Library
  • cd Coreservices
  • boot.efi
                              MacOS is not booting or extremely slow
This happens only in the case if your Vt-x or Amd-v is disabled.
So you will need to boot into your UEFI/BIOS firmware settings and enable it.
                   MacOS worked but now it's showing installation window
If this is your case then you must have either connected the iso again or created a partition in the virtual drive.I assume  your case to be the 2nd one. What you need to do is to First aid your disk from the disk utility.Be sure not to reinstall it.After doing first aid restart your VM and you will see you MacOS desktop.
                              The pop up window....... 
Two methods are there to cure this.
1. Open the terminal and enter date.
Check if the date in your VM is wrong. If it is then you should correct it and try to install  MacOS.
2. If that doesn't work for you or your date is correct then try this way. It happens when the certificates are outdated. So now choose an old date like date of an year or two year before.
This might help you install.This mostly happens if you are installing older versions of MacOS like Sierra or Mojave etc

Hope this helps
Regards
Chris

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