MacOS Ventura and VirtualBox

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MacOS Ventura and VirtualBox

Post by curlsman » Wed Apr 19, 2023 6:51 pm

Oracle doesn't support MacOS Ventura Version 13.3 (22E252) with VirtualBox 6.1.43-156565 or 7.0.7-156678, so I'm a little stuck for the moment.

With VirtualBox 7.0.7-156678, I do get the installation to run as documented, viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8623 is very helpful, but when I try to boot from the result, I get Invalid MemoryDisk, see below.

Notice that the device boot output does not list the volume labels, so I'm guessing there is something about how the disk volumes are read that is unexpected.

BdsDxe: loading Boot0001 "UEFI VBOX CD-ROM VB1-1a2b3c4d " from PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1F,0x2)/Sata(0x1,0xFFFF,0x0)
BdsDxe: starting Boot0001 "UEFI VBOX CD-ROM VB1-1a2b3c4d " from PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1F,0x2)/Sata(0x1,0xFFFF,0x0)

Scanning system devices and preparing the OpenVMS Boot Manager...


VSI OpenVMS Boot Manager: V9.2-1, Build 122

ENABLED: Symmetric Multi-Processing
ENABLED: Crash Dump Processing
ENABLED: Console output to Legacy COM 1 Port

Checking Required Processor Features:
PASSED

BOOT MANAGER DEVICE: DKA100
DEFAULT BOOT COMMAND: BOOT 0 00000000

VIRTUAL MACHINE GUEST:
VirtualBox (tm) No Mouse support; Use Commands or Arrow Keys


CONNECT A REMOTE TERMINAL SESSION NOW.
Enter the TERMINAL command for remote connection assistance.

BOOTMGR> device boot
DEVICE BOOT

BOOTABLE DEVICES (System Disks, Installation Kits, other):

DKA0 (HD) = FS0 UEFI: E9_2_1 VMS: 12288 MB SATA Disk
DKA100 (DVD) = FS1 UEFI: E9_2_1 VMS: None 1574 MB SATA DVD

BOOTMGR> boot dka0: 0 00000000
BOOT DKA0: 0 00000000
Booting...

%VMS_BOOTMGR-E-MEMDISK, Invalid MemoryDisk version: 0.0

%VMS_BOOTMGR-E-MEMDISK, Unable to load DMM0.

%VMS_BOOTMGR-E-MEMDISK, Unable to load selected boot image.

%VMS_BOOTMGR-F-MAIN, Unable to load MemoryDisk from boot device.


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Re: MacOS Ventura and VirtualBox EUREKA!

Post by curlsman » Sat Apr 29, 2023 1:03 pm

EUREKA!

VirtualBox-7.0.9-157071-OSX and reordering the attached devices to enumerate the CD/DVD with the install ISO first and the HardDisk second resolved the boot from hard disk problem.

Because I had chosen to build without network support, I created a CD/DVD image for the license command procedure X86COMMUNITY-20240401.COM using the Mac Disk Utility.
But had to turn that .cdr file into a .iso for VirtualBox to recognize it, so had to use command:
hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o FirstBootUpdate.iso FirstBootUpdate.cdr
See https://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0001554

Then had to set the text file with:
set file/att=(rfm:stmlf,rat:none,mrs:256) X86COMMUNITY-20240401.COM
Giving:
File organization: Sequential
Shelved state: Online
Caching attribute: Writethrough
File attributes: Allocation: 64, Extend: 0, Global buffer count: 0
No version limit
Record format: Stream_LF, maximum 256 bytes, longest 0 bytes
Record attributes: None
RMS attributes: None

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