byte-bucket
Various pieces of code I've written, in case someone else finds them useful. (by EricFromCanada)
createinstalliso
Creates a bootable ISO image from a macOS installer application. This image can then be used to install macOS on a physical or virtual machine. (by BITespresso)
| byte-bucket | createinstalliso | |
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| 2 | 2 | |
| 26 | 65 | |
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| 3.7 | 0.0 | |
| 7 months ago | 8 days ago | |
| AppleScript | Shell | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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install sierra in Virtual machine on my iMac running Monterey
You’ll need to also download a Sierra installer and follow the instructions on this GitHub Repo to convert the Sierra Installer into a iso file.
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Another script for creating macOS installer DMG or ISO disk images for virtualization
Although there's many other scripts and tutorials floating around the web that convert various macOS installer versions to ISO, I wrote yet another one that a) works on installers for Lion through Monterey, 2) produces reasonably sized disk images that work with VMware and VirtualBox, and iii) should be fairly understandable for people who aren't shell script experts, even if it's not as bulletproof as some other candidates:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing byte-bucket and createinstalliso you can also consider the following projects:
macos-virtualbox-vm - Instructions and script to help you create a VirtualBox VM running macOS.
bootiso - A bash program to securely create a bootable USB device from one image file.
utmconfigs - Config files for booting Mac OS 9 and OS X on UTM emulator
r-macos-rtools - Scripts to build an **unofficial** Rtools-esq installer for the macOS R toolchain
vmware-host-modules-builder-cli - This shell script downloads, builds and installs Vmware host modules for your Linux Vmware.
macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.
purge-wrangler - AMD & NVIDIA eGPUs for all Thunderbolt Macs.