When asked whether to use UEFI or Legacy boot mode, choose Legacy. Special thanks to the Hackintosh website. If you’re all set with the above, follow the instructions at the awesome Tony Mac x86 website.

We’ll be extracting a Sierra installer in a moment. I’d go the USB 3.0 or higher route so things run a bit faster.

I imagine you own both Mac OS and the drive. We’ll be using Unibeast, Multibeast, and the Clover bootloader.

16GB or larger thumb drive, preferably USB 3įirst things first – you’ll need a Mac running Sierra and at least a 16 GB USB thumb drive.

Intel powered machine, preferably i5 or higher.

macOS X Sierra Installer, or a machine with Sierra installed – extraction details below.

Wouldn’t it be nice to just run OS X in a VM so I could use my Surface Book and not mess with the Apple ecosystem more than necessary? Well, I finally got it working, thanks in large part to the work that’s been done by many people, links of which I’ll credit in this article. I’ve been struggling with carrying a Mac and PC for Xamarin development for a couple years now.

Mac os x sierra virtualbox error