OSX-KVM/run_offline.md

How to run the Installation offline without macOS

• Download the ventura file (InstallAssistant.pkg) from https://mrmacintosh.com/macos-ventura-13-full-installer-database-download-directly-from-apple/(https://mrmacintosh.com/macos-ventura-13-full-installer-database-download-directly-from-apple/)
• Create an iso file InstallAssistant.iso with the downloaded InstallAssistant.pkg and run_offline.sh in the scripts/run_offline.sh files

mkisofs -allow-limited-size -l -J -r -iso-level 3 -V InstallAssistant -o <output.iso> <source file or directory>

mkisofs -allow-limited-size -l -J -r -iso-level 3 -V InstallAssistant -o InstallAssistant.iso path/to/InstallAssistant.pkg path/to/OSX-KVM/scripts/run_offline.sh

or

genisoimage -allow-limited-size -l -J -r -iso-level 3 -V InstallAssistant -o <output.iso> <source file or directory>

genisoimage -allow-limited-size -l -J -r -iso-level 3 -V InstallAssistant -o InstallAssistant.iso path/to/InstallAssistant.pkg path/to/OSX-KVM/scripts/run_offline.sh

• On windows, use poweriso
• Add the following to your OpenCore-Boot.sh

-drive id=MacDVD,if=none,file="$REPO_PATH/InstallAssistant.iso",format=raw
-device ide-hd,bus=sata.5,drive=MacDVD

• Create your qcow2 file

qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o preallocation=off mac_hdd_ng.img 256G

• Run ./OpenCore-Boot.sh from the terminal
• Use the Disk Utility tool within the macOS installer to partition, and format the virtual disk attached with name macOS
• When completed, close Disk Utility
• Go to the Terminal in your virtual machine, Click Utilities, select Terminal
• Run the cmd sh /Volumes/InstallAssistant/run_offline.sh
• Wait for a few minutes for the installation window