I'm trying to install Big Sur, I got up to the introduction screen, after formatting the drive, I click install, and even after waiting about 2 hours, it still says "Less than a minute remaining" and the bar is at about 1/3. There's no way I'm not allocating enough resources, I gave it 120gb HDD, 8gb RAM, 6 cores. I've installed Catalina and High Sierra in the past, but I need Big Sur to install Xcode from the app store(cant seem to unpack the 12.4 file I downloaded manually)
Is this a common issue? Is there a way to just install Catalina and upgrade it? The upgrade seems to fail whenever I tried, I assumed it was just an issue with Virtual Box being unable to update the OS or something.
Thanks
Mac Big Sur Freezing Less than a Minute Remaining
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Re: Mac Big Sur Freezing Less than a Minute Remaining
This is a macOS guest issue rather then a problem with your host installation of VirtualBox. A mod will no doubt move the thread to the MacOS X Guests forum.
Please confirm that you have the VirtualBox Extensions Pack installed, and a USB 3.0 controller enabled in your VM settings.
I think you just have to wait it out. My experiences installing a Big Sur guest have been similar to yours. It eventually completed and the guest runs much as expected, although very sluggish. Similarly when you come to do your Xcode install - it *will* take a long time to complete and you just have to wait it out.
I suspect the culprit in all this is the speed of the disk. My Big Sur VM lives on my iMac's fusion drive, but that is still very slow. I suspect Big Sur is wanting to use an SSD - preferably super fast like the internal SSD on an M1 Mac, although of course the M1 machines cannot run a VirtualBox VM
Please confirm that you have the VirtualBox Extensions Pack installed, and a USB 3.0 controller enabled in your VM settings.
I think you just have to wait it out. My experiences installing a Big Sur guest have been similar to yours. It eventually completed and the guest runs much as expected, although very sluggish. Similarly when you come to do your Xcode install - it *will* take a long time to complete and you just have to wait it out.
I suspect the culprit in all this is the speed of the disk. My Big Sur VM lives on my iMac's fusion drive, but that is still very slow. I suspect Big Sur is wanting to use an SSD - preferably super fast like the internal SSD on an M1 Mac, although of course the M1 machines cannot run a VirtualBox VM
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Re: Mac Big Sur Freezing Less than a Minute Remaining
Moved to Mac Guests.
If you're running a spinning platter drive and Apple makes it permissible to switch to an SSD, do it. There's nothing better to breathe life into a computer like giving it an SSD.
If you're running a spinning platter drive and Apple makes it permissible to switch to an SSD, do it. There's nothing better to breathe life into a computer like giving it an SSD.
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Re: Mac Big Sur Freezing Less than a Minute Remaining
Sorry, I don't know what "guest" and "host" mean. lolgranada29 wrote:I suspect the culprit in all this is the speed of the disk. My Big Sur VM lives on my iMac's fusion drive, but that is still very slow. I suspect Big Sur is wanting to use an SSD - preferably super fast like the internal SSD on an M1 Mac, although of course the M1 machines cannot run a VirtualBox VM
I guess that makes sense, I have a very cheap 1TB drive I bought in Vietnam here. I would switch to my SSD but it's low on space
But it's weird, I installed Catalina to the same drive and it took an hour, tops.
I'll try just waiting longer. Thanks