How to install macOS Catalina final on VirtualBox on Windows PC

macOS Catalina 10.15 comes out on 3rd July 2019 in the “WWDC” worldwide conference with new pieces of stuff and a bunch of new features. Apple experimented for few to bring lots of changes to Keynote and features, to give better performance to software and hardware of PC. Also, 2019 is one the best journey for Apple that covered several huge stuff on Apple TV, WatchOS, iPad, Mac Pro, iPhone, and the latest update to the macOS operating system. Every macOS operating system name is taken from a place which locates in America. And also macOS Catalina’s name is taken from an island which is California.

This can be one of the big news for macOS lovers that they can use there iPad in macOS Catalina as a second screen display using Sidecar. Sidecar allows you to monitor your iPad works on macOS Catalina at the same time. But macOS Catalina has another feature like Apple pencil, using Apple Pencil can be a big experience for sketching, drawing, edit, Graphic, and other Apps.

However, it is a piece of good news for Windows users who doesn’t have Mac computers. They can use Virtual machine like VMware, and VirtualBox to test the features on there Windows PC. In this article, you will learn how to install macOS Catalina final on VirtualBox on Windows PC.

How to install macOS Catalina final on VirtualBox on Windows PC

Before starting you need to complete the requirements of macOS Catalina to install on VirtualBox. Firstly, you need to download VirtualBox from its official site. And make sure that you have to download the latest version, after that, download and install the VirtualBox Extension Pack. Extension Pack is like a helper tool to help the developer to enable the USB 3.0 on VirtualBox. Or in some cases, the mouse & keyboard is not working after installing an extension pack. You will be allowed to enable the mouse & keyboard on VirtualBox.

Install VirtualBox

Navigate to VirtualBox site and download the extension packages after that, download the latest one. While the downloaded is completed double click on setup to launch. Click install, agree to terms and conditions when the installation is completed click OK.

Install VirtualBox extension pack

Extract the VMDK file using WinRaR on 7Zip, right-click on the file and click Extract here

Create a new Virtual machine for macOS Catalina

Creating a virtual machine is easy as the same you create a virtual machine for macOS Mojave, Ubuntu, Kali Linux, or Windows. But the procedure changes that in place of ISO file you use here VMDK file. Launch VirtualBox and click on new.

New

Now type a name for the virtual machine choose the type and version then click next.

New

In the hard disk option select the third one “Use an existing virtual hard disk file” and click on the ow folder. After that, click the Add button then browse for the macOS Catalina VMDK file. When you selected the VMDK file click choose, and finally click create.

However, when all the setting is done for creating a virtual machine for macOS Catalina. It is the time to customize and bring some essential changes on the hardware for better performance. Click on the setting.

Setting

The setting window opened now click System and increase the memory size and uncheck the Floppy disk.

uncheck floppy

Navigate to the processor tab and increase the number of the processor according to your system compatibility.

increase processor

Come down to the display menu and increase video memory up to 128 MB.

increase video memory

Insert the Virtual machine code to CMD

When you are done with the basic step of a virtual machine after that, then it is time to insert some code for macOS Catalina in VirtualBox. Remember that contrast on every step of Virtual machine otherwise you will not be able to ahead or install macOS Catalina on VirtualBox.

Note: You should replace your "VM Name" with your own virtual Machine
Code for Virtualbox 6.x:
cd "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\"
VBoxManage.exe modifyvm "VM Name" --cpuidset 00000001 000106e5 00100800 0098e3fd bfebfbff
VBoxManage setextradata "VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemProduct" "iMac11,3"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemVersion" "1.0"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiBoardProduct" "Iloveapple"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/DeviceKey" "ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/GetKeyFromRealSMC" 1

Copy the above code and paste into notepad then use the option to replace the VM name with a virtual machine name. After that, click replace all to change the VM name with Virtual machine name which is macOS Catalina.

Replace virtual machine name

Important note: Before going to insert the virtual machine code I suggest you close the VirtualBox. Otherwise, you will not be able to go ahead into the installation process.

When you edited and replaced the VM name with created virtual machine name. Go ahead and type cmd on the Windows menu, then right-click and Run as administrator. Step by step copy and paste the virtual code into CMD using enter key of your keyboard.

Copy-paste the code

Install macOS Catalina final on VirtualBox

VirtualBox can be one of the easiest operating systems according to its function, all the settings are easily customizable.

Open the VirtualBox and click on the Start button, wait for some seconds until the black screen should bypass.

Start installing

Once you bypass the black screen full of the code, again you will see the installation windows. Because macOS Catalina is a heavy operating system this step of installation might take some minutes. Be patient until the installation process should complete. When the installation is completed the Virtual machine will restart automatically.

Installing macOS Catalina

When the virtual machine restarted don’t do anything because the first setting for first use is remaining. On the first windows select your country and click continue.

select your country

• Select your keyboard layout and click continue.
• Click on my computer doesn’t connect to the internet.
• Choose don’t transfer any information right now.
• Click on sign up later and click the skip button.
• Agree to the terms and conditions of macOS Catalina.
• Create a computer account, using your full name, account name, password, and hint then click continue.

Create your computer account

• On express setup simply click continue.
• Again on screen-time click continue.
• Select your look for macOS Catalina.
• And finally, macOS Catalina is successfully installed on VirtualBox.

installed macOS Catalina

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Conclusion

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