#MACOS BIG SUR VIRTUALBOX HOW TO#
#MACOS BIG SUR VIRTUALBOX INSTALL#
#MACOS BIG SUR VIRTUALBOX UPDATE#
#MACOS BIG SUR VIRTUALBOX DRIVER#
#MACOS BIG SUR VIRTUALBOX UPGRADE#

(Read more on how to disable SIP only on specific parts of the system.) The way to do this on macOS is to partially disable SIP. So before you use any software that needs kernel extensions (like VirtualBox) you need to explicitly instruct macOS to allow them. With macOS Big Sur, usage of third-party kernel extensions is diallowed by default. Kernel extensions allow developers a way to directly integrate with, and add features to, macOS and VirtualBox uses this method to add virtualisation feature to the macOS. It is just that Apple has decided that they want to discourage developers and users from adding kernel extensions to macOS and so have made it harder to use it in Big Sur. To be clear, it is not that they are 'no longer supported' in Big Sur. Oh well.Īs far I can gather, kernel extensions are no longer supported in Big Sur, hence the breakage of software that relies on them, like VirtualBox. Now the only issue are random kernel panics on restart, even on the clean install.

#MACOS BIG SUR VIRTUALBOX INSTALL#

My suggestion to someone in a comparable situation: backup your system, wipe it, make a clean install and rebuild it from scratch (not a Time Machine backup). It's pretty clear that the OS updater breaks stuff in subtle ways that are hard to troubleshoot. Just initiated a refund for the VMware plugin license. No issues with private networks as well and no SIP messing around or the like required. However, after a full disk wipe and clean install of Big Sur, suddenly VirtualBox installs just fine and runs as expected - meaning, like before. This fails with a 'Failed to create new device' error and Hashicorp support has no idea what may be wrong. Lesson learned: I'm going to trail macOS releases by a full year from now on.Įdit 2: VMware Fusion has issues with Vagrant creating private network addresses.

#MACOS BIG SUR VIRTUALBOX UPDATE#

Oh well, I guess that's what you get for running something like macOS as a development machine and update too early. Additionally, VMware appears to be quite a bit more performant compared to VirtualBox. And by purchasing the plugin, I'm actually supporting OSS development of Vagrant. This answer did not work as well for me.Įdit: For the time being, VMware Fusion plus the Vagrant VMware plugin appear to do the job quite nicely. Maybe someone else has experienced the same issue as I have and can shine some light on the steps taken to get stuff working on Big Sur. For the time being, it means I'm dead in the water, probably having to re-install Catalina from scratch or buy both a VMware and a VMware Vagrant plugin license. I need VirtualBox for my Vagrant development boxes.

As far I can gather, kernel extensions are no longer supported in Big Sur, hence the breakage of software that relies on them, like VirtualBox. Like manually accepting kernel extensions via System Preferences > Security & Privacy. The test versions also do not work at all, despite completing the installation.Īll other articles and forum entries as well as Ask Different questions were either dismissed because the author was using a pre-release version of macOS 11 or describe situations that, to the best of my understanding, simply cannot occur on Big Sur. I then tried pretty much everything in the giant thread out it on the VirtualBox forums. After dismissing it, the VM process crashes (throwing EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)). On linux, open returned ENOENT.Įrror message.

#MACOS BIG SUR VIRTUALBOX DRIVER#

Where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. Make sure the kernel module has been loaded successfully.

This fails with a rather expected Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) Trying to start it works, although not booting up VMs. Afterwards, VirtualBox is present on the file system however. I'm apparently not alone in experiencing this. I followed the usual advice of using the VirtualBox_Uninstall.tool script to remove any trace of VirtualBox, rebooting, installing the latest stable version from a VirtualBox-6.1.16-140961-OSX.dmg disk image. The one thing I did not account for is that VirtualBox stopped working.

#MACOS BIG SUR VIRTUALBOX UPGRADE#

During the holidays, I decided to upgrade from Catalina to Big Sur ( macOS 11.1 (20C69) to be precise).

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