But it's macOS, in a virtual machine, and that's not bad! Be sure to check out our guide to VirtualBox's advanced features to get the most out of your machine, too. This isn't going to be perfect, which is to be expected from an entirely unsupported setup. Also, remember that audio won't work, nor will things like FaceTime or iMessage, which require a real Mac.

Related: 10 VirtualBox Tricks and Advanced Features You Should Know Aboutįrom now on, you can open VirtualBox for any Mac-related testing you want to do. Again, you'll see a lot of errors pop up during boot, but they're fine ignore them. Start up VirtualBox, load up your virtual machine, and it should boot to your preferred resolution! In the second command, you need to replace the N with a number from one to five, depending on what resolution you want: VBoxManage setextradata 'High Sierra' 'VBoxInternal2/EfiGopMode' N To start, we'll need to create an ISO file of macOS High Sierra's installer, so we can load it in VirtualBox on our Windows machine. Grab your borrowed Mac, head to the Mac App Store, search for Sierra, and click 'Download.' Ready to get started? Let's jump in! Step One: Create a macOS High Sierra ISO File If you're on a Mac and want a macOS virtual machine for use on that Mac, we recommend checking out out Parallels Desktop Lite instead, because it can create macOS virtual machines for free and is a lot easier to work with. Borrow a friend's Mac for an hour if you don't have one, and you should be fine-everything beyond step one of this tutorial can be done on your Windows PC. You could, we suppose, obtain a High Sierra ISO by other means, but we don't recommend it. NOTE: In order to get this working, you will need access to a real Mac in order to download High Sierra.

Related: Beginner Geek: How to Create and Use Virtual Machines To make things a little easier for people, we've combined methods from a few different forum threads into a single, step-by-step tutorial, complete with screenshots.

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