But all they could say is "we don't know". Maybe I'm alone in my thinking that when you stop supporting product X and replace it with an improved product Y, one would expect that the new version will still do all the things the previous version did AND MORE.Īnd it would have been nice for the folks at Apple to have told me about these issues when I asked them BEFORE we decided to purchase 15 of these not-quite-ready-for-prime-time M1 iMacs. These new Macs also won't talk to our Apple Server to do network user authentication when Filevault is turned on. We have Parallels on a couple of Macs, but it's soooo bloated that you can't get decent performance while it's running so I don't see it as a viable option. So I can't boot into an ARM based Linux Distro either. Also they got rid of bootcamp and you can't boot from a USB stick either.
I thought "Rosetta" was supposed provide x86 emulation to bridge the gap between x86 apps and Apple Silicon but apparently not. Set the virtual machine's USB version to 1.1 and disable all network adapters from the VirtualBox settings (AppleKeyStore, the system's secure keychain, crashes otherwise)īoot macOS Big Sur and complete the initial setupĪfter initial setup is complete the USB settings and network adapters can be restored.Ĭongrats, you have a macOS version that's slower and uglier than Catalina! Hopefully Apple will replace the blurrier icons and other blurrier graphical interface elements by release time.So tired of being "upgraded" out of a functioning machine.Īpple won't provide OS upgrades for our older x86 iMacs (which still run great) and the replacement iMacs won't run several key applications for development like VirtualBox and Vagrant.
When the macOS initial setup starts, shut down macOS with Command-Q Run "Install macOS Beta.app", select "Show All Disks." and select the new empty disk.Īllow the installer to complete. Run InstallAssistant.pkg which creates an "Install macOS Beta.app" in the /Applications folder Attach it to the virtual machine and erase it with Disk Utility, formatting it to APFS. Use VirtualBox to create an additional disk image that's has at least 60GB of space. Windows can create and mount VHD disk images through Disk Management. Here's how to run macOS Big Sur on VirtualBox:ĭownload Big Sur InstallAssistant.pkg (9GB) either inside the virtual machine or on the host on a disk image that will be mounted on the virtual machine.
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