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MrMacintosh.com - You can now run macOS Monterey in a virtual machine on M1 Macs! — You can now run macOS Monterey in a virtual machine on M1 Macs!

macOS Monterey can now run in a Virtual Machine on an M1 Mac using Monterey’s new virtualization framework!

We’ve been waiting for over seven months for this ability! The first OS to be virtualized was Ubuntu Linux, then came the ARM version of Windows 10 in late November of last year. Now we can virtualize macOS Monterey on an M1 Mac.

Hopefully QEMU, Parallels & VMware are not far behind.

I will walk you through the entire process. (UPDATE! KhaosT just released an updated GUI interface, more info at the bottom of the article)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxkzuFejjj0

My video walking you through the process of setting up a virtual machine that can run macOS Monterey!

Requirements & Instructions (Modified Original Instructions)

Download links are at the bottom.

Apple Silicon M1 Mac (running macOS Monterey)
Xcode 13 (Beta)
Apple Configurator 2
macOS Monterey IPSW
Empty dmg image (This will be your system storage, name it disk.dmg, you can create it from Disk Utility)

First Time Setup

1. Clone this project from Github save as zip for use in Xcode. Open zip in Xcode Beta.

2. Click the Run Button (VM will build)

3. Quit the app when “Virtual Machine” window showed up, move disk.dmg into the app’s container

4. Run it again

5. Open Apple Configurator 2, if everything works, There should have a VirtualMac in DFU mode

6. Temporary disable macOS Firewall and iCloud Private Relay (Apple Configurator 2 can’t restore VM with those features enabled) Both are default off if you did not turn them on or sign in with your AppleID

7. Drag macOS 12 IPSW file into Apple Configurator 2, click Restore to install macOS

8. When AC2 finishes the install you should be done and your vm should boot to macOS 12 Setup Assistant!