I ran: VBoxManage setextradata MAC_OS_RTL 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemProduct' 'MacBookPro11,3' “High Sierra” should be what your VM is called. VBoxManage setextradata 'High Sierra' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/GetKeyFromRealSMC' 1 VBoxManage setextradata 'High Sierra' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/DeviceKey' 'ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc' VBoxManage setextradata 'High Sierra' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiBoardProduct' 'Mac-2BD1B31983FE1663' VBoxManage setextradata 'High Sierra' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemVersion' '1.0' VBoxManage setextradata 'High Sierra' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemProduct' 'MacBookPro11,3' One of the issues I ran into is that the ISO needed to think the image was running on a real MAC (vice a virtual machine) so variations of the following commands were needed: cd 'C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox' I downloaded the most current image (Catalina.app) and was able to convert this to a DMG bootable image and subsequently into an ISO. Initially I found a few websites and youtube videos which directed me to a few optical disc images as known as ISO images but I thought why can't I go directly to Apple. I did some researching and that is the path I went down.

I was thinking about getting a new Mac laptop, or a macmini but other than increase my hardware footprint, I thought about using a VM.

I had an old MACair laptop from 2012 which I updated the SSD to a larger drive but unfortunately had issues with the minimal RAM and this affects my wife’s Zoom Yoga classes so I ended up deleting playgrounds, Swift programming app (xcode?), & Sketch. Hackintosh fail, MACOS on a VirtualBox VM:

Hackintosh virtualbox