From information I gathered, Realtek chipsets are well supported.

MacOS unfortunately do not support many external Wi-Fi cards. There are multiple issues.įirst problem is to identify supported Wi-Fi cards. Attaching External WiFi Card to MacOS VMĪttaching external Wi-Fi card to MacOS VM is not standard affair. So not sure for how long this step will remain valid. Note: Apple has started decommissioning kext. Well known apps provide respective kextid on their portal. Click the Utilities menu and select Terminal. In my experience, I didn’t require to perform this step (atleast during basic setup.) Hence I am putting down steps and no screenshot. Note: Run this step on requirement basis. In such cases, Kext can be whitelisted in recovery mode. Just like 3rd party apps, MacOS do not allow installing unidentified kext (sometimes). Just like apps, MacOS do not let unidentified drivers installed on it. Run win-install.cmd with Admin access via command line. Shutdown VMWare Workstation/Player application.ī. Installationīelow are the steps you need follow before, during and after installation. Even after lots of updating and trial-n-error, this was not resolved. But I observed USB connectivity issues with Virtual Box while attaching iPhone to VM. USB connectivity issues: In one of my test, I installed MacOS Catalina successfully on Virtualbox (with Guest Additions). As you might already know, without Guest additions multiple features cannot be used.Ģ. This happens because MacOS do not recognise Oracle as Trusted Dev. You can install MacOS 11 on VirtualBox, but I faced multiple issues while installing VB Guest Additions due to GateKeeper and SIP. They restrict apps from untrusted developers. Issues with GateKeeper and System Integrity Protection (SIP) of MacOS 15+ - GateKeeper and SIP are two important security mechanisms of MacOS. Now you may ask why can’t we use VirtualBox? There are couple issues with VirtualBox which I have observed during couple of installation.

200GB Free Disk Space (SSD will provide performance benefit) Software In another post, we will look at pentesting tools. You can try these steps with Linux Host or AMD Processor or both at your own risk. Note: This post will be limited to OS installation only as well as we will be using Windows as Host OS on Intel machines. In this post, we will look at how to create almost perfect Hackintosh VM. An inexpensive alternative can be a making Mac VM (which is fondly called Hackintosh). Also while doing pentest using non-jailbroken iPhone, it is recommended to inject Frida server dylib in dummy app and install it on iPhone, which requires XCode.īut getting Mac/MacBook can be an expensive affair. But nowadays, using MacOS will have additional benefit such as automating IPA analysis via MobSF. In old days, using Windows/Linux based tools was enough for iOS appsec. As a pentester, I often get projects to test iOS applications.

Macos in a vm