Effortless macOS VM Installation with New Macinabox - Ventura & Sonoma Support

In this tutorial, I walk you through the process of installing macOS (from High Sierra to Sonoma) using the New Macinbox, on an Unraid server. This method makes it incredibly easy to select and install any version of macOS that you need.

⚠️ Important Note: To stay compliant with Apple’s EULA, this Unraid server in the video is running on genuine Apple hardware, which is clearly shown in the video. This ensures that the macOS virtual machines in this video operates within legal boundaries.

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[Mr.Vox]

Thank you for all your help. Your guides help me a lot in my Unraid journey this year.

[julian.morgan]

Thanks for all your hard work on this Ed! I'm writing this on a 2011 Macbook Pro with a fried GPU running Ventura thanks to Opencore Legacy Patcher - this being what anyone should do if they have an old Mac and want to run a current version of Mac OS. That said, having built Opencore based hackintoshes for my desktop machines for many years now, I'm intrigued about the pros and cons of just running it in a VM compared to bare metal.

[mousbleu]

Funny, i was checking the old video yesterday. Time to install a new vm.

[rollyourowntech]

Great video! I have had it on my list for a while to set up a MacOS VM on my Unraid host. This is terrific. I have upgraded iMacs with OpenCore, along with Mac Pro towers. I own a LOT of apple hardware, some of which I have running for various tasks. This is a terrific project. Thank you!

[ryanroberts]

Brilliant video, thanks for all the super level of detail and explanations. Watched it side by side with doing the upgrade / replacement, made everything easy to understand. Awesome!!!

[acidmexx]

Awesome guide as always :) br from Austria! next step is to try to get my 1050ti passed through there :) just a sidenote : Without you Unraid wouldnt be as accessable to a load of people as it is :) thanks for all ur efforts :)

[johnbell]

"Run on Apple hardware" My PC box physically sits on top of my old macmini, so technically everything runs on Apple hardware.

[evan]

I am SO excited for this! Thank you for all you do!

[theplexorcist]

edit: I was able to make changes after upgrading to 6.12.13, but i think it was probably the reboot that solved the issue. So anyone else having the same issue, start there.

The only way I can get it to load is to use the default settings.. changing anything like cpus or ram gives me "Guest has not initialized the display (yet)." have removed the VM (without disk) several times, manually removed nvram files. tried different cpuargs. nothing works unless i set it back to default. and run last cpuarg option.. im on 6.12.8 with an i7 10th gen. hopefully someone figures out a workaround as ive seen im not the only one.

[ReallyBigCookie]

Thanks!

I have used your previous version a couple of times on two different UnRaid boxes.

Now I have used this version a couple of times. The issue I am running into… Ventura system report shows 1 core when the default configuration is for 2.

Also it would really help if you could tell us how to completely remove every bit of of a VM on UnRaid. I have one UnRaid box that shows one that can’t be removed. I have checked appdata, domains, and isos, and nothing is there, but yet it shows under VMs.

I appreciate your knowledge and work!

[xamievilx]

Thanks! Excited to play around with this.

[IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Great video as always Ed! Thanks for sharing it with us!💖👍😎JP

[themagiceye]

Great video Ed. Would love if you could do a quick Nextcloud revisit to help us plonkers who are not sure how to safely upgrade since the container update process changed a number of months back. I've found it impossible to get a clear, straightforward answer on what needs to be done. Thanks!

[DavidSmith-fhyi]

Thanks for this. I literally installed Ventura last night on a proxmox box, having failed on unraid previously trying to use the mackinabox installer. This works brilliantly. One question I have is about audio. I use VNC to access the VM, but there is no audio, is there a work around like a Windows VM where you can use a Virtio driver ?

[mastermoarman]

Have you considered doing a frigate unraid install?

[Tombatin]

For some reason after the VM boots the first time and I get to Disk Utility I can only see one disk, seems like it is the base image, anyway the one that has 2.87 gigs free. No other disks are shown even they are mounted according to VM logs. I only pointed the virtual disk location to SSD only -share, no other changes made to the docker or the vm.

[MT-yomg]

Like others, I too am getting the "Guest has not initialized the display (yet)." error. Followed your video 100%. Unraid v6.12.3, on a Ryzen 5700G CPU. Any suggestions? Thanks for the awesome video, as always. :)

[slatBANG]

19:58 I’ve followed it all through and getting “Guest has not initialized the display yet” when I start the VM and try to VNC onto it. Any ideas? Can I add my GPU at this point or does it need VNC first? Either way I’m stuck right now

[MrFlakk]

Having lots of issues getting this to work. Followed instructions to a T and seeing "Guest has not initialized the display (yet)" in most attempts. One time I was able to get through only to see that the only disk I can see is the install disk, with no disk to install the OS to.

[JoeAnshien]

After formatting disk it reboots to a 3 icon screen: macOS base system, UEFI shell, Reset NVRAM. I pick macOS but just loops. Thanks