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Even after reading your tutorial, I can't find the way to install high sierra on my virtual box. I had save the install link of high sierra but, can't find the way make it running. Already do a virtual disk and a high sierra environment but, can't find the way to let the machine use the install to create the macos in the virtual machine. Configure Virtual Machine. Now its time to configure some advanced settings for the virtual machines to work properly. So, Open VMware workstation and then select 'macOS Mojave' & then Click on Edit Virtual machine settings.

After installing Mac OS X Mojave on a virtual machine, straight away you will notice that you are not able to get a full resolution for Mac OS inside the virtual machine. Even though you toggle the VM to full screen.

One will also notice a drastic lag in the performance of the overall Mac OS inside the virtual machine.

Though the reasons for this lag, and a bit slower system can be a low configuration system on itself. But despite having a high-end configuration, if you are facing these kinds of issues you can look into the below-mentioned measures to actually solve them.

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  • You can use MAC OS X Mojave in full resolution in VMware / virtual machine.
  • Display lags are fixed.
  • Overall faster-performing system
1How To Speed Up Mac OS X Mojave In Vmware/Virtualbox

How To Speed Up Mac OS X Mojave In Vmware/Virtualbox

First : Beamoff

2020 Update: Unfortunately, Beamoff does not seem to work on mac os mojave. But the new edition of VMware tools seem to solve this issue for most of the users.

Beamoff is a free script developed by the Hackintosh community and experts that fix internal issues with the system. This eventually results in a much smoother performing system and application on MAC OS.

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  1. Extract it to the Mac OS's home screen.
  2. Go to system preferences > Security & Privacy > Allow apps downloaded from :
  3. You should not be able to alter the selections yet.
  4. Click on the yellow lock on the bottom left of the screen, and then enter your password.
  5. Alter the settings to 'Anywhere'.
  6. Click on the lock again to lock it.
  7. You should see the much-improved performance of the system.

Second : Vmware Tools

Remember the unlocker we used while installing Mac OS X on our virtual machine, we will need that unlocker again.

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  1. Shutdown your virtual machine.
  2. Edit virtual machine settings and open up CD/DVD(SATA).
  3. Under 'Connection' select 'Use ISO image file.
  4. Click on 'Browse' and navigate to the 'UNLOCKER FOLDER/tools/ Darwin.iso
  5. Select the Darwin.iso file.
  6. Now power on the virtual machine.
  7. You should straight away see the installation screen for VMware tools.
  8. Double click on 'Install VMware Tools' and click on 'Continue'
  9. Install > Continue Installation and enter your login password
  10. Once the installation has completed, click on the restart to restart the system
  11. You might be prompted to open the security preferences to allow the VMware tools, do that
  12. Now your system will be less laggy and the Mojave will run on fullscreen
  13. To confirm the tools are installed, click on the 'apple' icon on the top left corner of the screen and ' About this mac'
  14. You should see that the graphics is 128 MB and not just 3 MB

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It's plain and simple to get the tools installed. After you've installed the tools, just make sure you restart your system.

So that's how you can optimize mac os Mojave ‘s performance in vmware workstation player and run mac os in full screen mode.

Noticed any differences with your system yet?? Let us know!!!

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1- Download Mac OS

Mac OS is a computer operating system developed by Apple. This is a operating system with beautiful interface, however, to own a the computer of Apple with this operating system, you need to use a lot of money, normally with the double price than that of common computers using Windows operating system. Fortunately, you can experience the Mac OS right on your computer by installing a Mac OS virtual machine on VirtualBox.
Below is the list of Mac OS versions released in recent years:
Mac OS VersionNameRelease Date
10.10YosemiteJune 2014
10.11El CapitanSeptember 30, 2015
10.12SierraJune 12, 2016
10.13High SierraJune 5, 2017
In this post, I will show you how to install the Mac OS on VirtualBox. First of all, please download an installer.
After finishing downloading, there is one file:
Extract the file that you have just downloaded in a folder.

2- Create Mac OS Virtual Machine

On the VirtualBox, create a new virtual machine.
Enter a name for the virtual machine and select a Mac OS version suitable for the Mac OS version that you have downloaded.
Mac OS operating systems need a large amount of RAM to work, You should provide it with about 4GB RAM.
The Mac OS file downloaded by you in the above step is a complete operating system and you can be willing to use without installation. Therefore, on the VirtualBox, you only need to point to this postion of this file.
OK, your Mac OS virtual machine has been created.
You can carry out other configurations for Mac OS, for example, Network configuration, specifying the quantity of Processors,.

3- Configure VBoxManage

After you create VirtualBox virtual machine, the Meta information of this virtual machine will be found in the folder (Depending on your operating system):
  • LINUX (Ubuntu,.):/home/{user}/VirtualBox VMs
  • WINDOWS:C:/Users/{user}/VirtualBox VMs
There are some advanced configurations that you can perform via the interface of VirtualBox, and you must carry out it via a command:
Replace 'Your-VM-Name' by your virtual machine name. Your virtual machine name can be found in the 'Setting > General > Basic' (Like the following illustration).
On the Linux (Ubuntu,.), open Terminal windows and CD to go to your Mac OS virtual machine directory. If you use the Windows operating system, open the CMD windows with Administrator privilege and CD to go to the Mac OS ​​​​​​​virtual machine directory.
Perform the above commands respectively (after having replaced 'Your-VM-Name'):
OK, all the commands have been performed successfully.

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4- Start the Mac OS virtual machine

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Press on 'Start' button to start yourMac OS virtual machine:

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Enter username/password (to be used to enter your Mac OS virtual machine).
OK, at this moment, you have installed Mac OS Virtual Machine on VirtualBox successfully.

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