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Having a virtual machine running macOS opens up a lot of opportunities for learning. If you are into security, you can set up a VM for your security lab. Or if you want to learn networking or kernel debugging, it is also helpful to use a VM. The other option is risk breaking your work machine in your experiments (not fun). To build our VM, we need to use Disk Images, another topic that is useful in other areas.

Both topics are interesting, and we can combine them. In this post, I'll show you the basics of working with Disk Images and also as an example we are going to create an ISO image to build our macOS Catalina VM using VirtualBox.

There's a lot of information so let's get started.

NOTE: We need to download the macOS Catalina installer from the AppStore, it's around 9Gb, so It'll take some time to download. Better start now while we learn about Disk Images.

We'll learn by making, so let's start by creating a folder that we'll use as the base for our image.

Let's add some content to our folder:

Ok, this is going to be our simple image structure:

We are going to use hdiutil. This tool uses the DiskImages.framework for.. well, manage disk images. Or at least that is what its man page says. But I couldn't find any documentation on the DiskImages.framework so I assume it's a private framework. If you know anything about it, let me know. In the meantime, I encourage you to read the man page hdiutil(1) for more information.

Alright, that should have created miapplicacion.dmg image in your desktop. We can now delete the ~/Desktop/myapp, we don't need it anymore.

We can now mount the image. We can do that by clicking it using the Finder, or by using hdiutil again. I'll use hdiutil so we get more comfortable using it.

That will mount our image in /Volumes/myapp. I purposefully gave different names to the dmg and the image so you can see which one will be used when mounted.

If you check the newly mounted image, you'll see our hello.txt with the content Hola, mundo!.

Now you can eject it from the Finder or use hdiutil again. As you probably imagined, I'll show you how to do it with hdiutil.

You can use the name of the volume or the device, in my case:

We create the image using a source folder. We could also have created an empty image and then add content to it. Let's see how to do that.

That create s new image of ten megabytes of space. To work with that image, we need to mount it. We are going to mount it but without including its filesystem.

DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE POINTING TO THE CORRECT DEVICE, ELSE YOU CAN LOSE DATA! I WON'T BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING YOU DO WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS I POST HERE, TREAD CAREFULLY.

In my computer the image is mounted in /dev/disk3 it might use a different one on your computer so make sure you refer to the correct one or BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN.

Why did we mount our image this way? Well, we did it so we can format the volume using diskutil. Let's do that.

Now we can add some content to that Image.

Now we can eject the volume.

And now you can mount it again, and you'll see your howdy.txt file. The images we've created are Read/Write. We can also convert it to a read-only image:

You can see all the supported formats in the man page. Here is the list in mine:

Now if we mount our new image and try to write to it we'll get an error:

Alright, that should give us enough background on Disk Images (.dmg) to build our ISO image for Catalina. Let's do that now.

Since Mac OS X Lion (10.7 - released in 2011), Apple decided to no longer distribute an installation DVD, it provides the installer as an application that can be downloaded via the AppStore. This installer application contains the base system for installation and also a Recovery image that includes a basic OS implementation that is used at boot time. When you boot to the Recovery volume, you can use it to restore and/or install the operating system. You can read more on This detailed article on AFP548.

The idea is to extract all the parts from the Install macOS Catalina.app application bundle to build our ISO. I'm going to use Jeff Geerling's macOS VirtualBox VM script as a basis. It is similar to the instructions in Kedy Liu's article on macOS Kernel Debugging.

We are going to mainly focus on the InstallESD.dmg and BaseSystem.dmg images that come inside the application installer to generate an ISO image.

If you are not familiar with the ISO format, an ISO image is the image format used on an optical disk. It is the format used by DVD, CD, or Blue-ray Disc. In the past, it was common to use CDs as the media to install the operating systems. VirtualBox supports that format. We plan to create an ISO image from the installer.

Let's begin.

After the AppStore download is complete, you'll be able to find the Install macOS Catalina.app inside your /Applications/ directory.

I'll be using macOS Catalina as an example, but as long as you have the installer of any OS newer than 10.7, the process should be similar.

Navigate to the /Applications/Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/SharedSupport/ directory, and list the files:

Excellent, we have the BaseSystem.dmg and the InstallESD.dmg. Inside the InstallESD.dmg we'll find the installer that uses the BaseSystem image to install the OS.

To extract the installer we'll need to mount the InstallESD.dmg image.

The BaseSystem.dmg has an image formatted in HFS. We can create an empty image as we did in the last example of the previous section. Then we can 'restore' the BaseSystem image in the newly created image. It sounds confusing, but you'll understand it better when we begin doing it.

Let's begin by creating the destination image. I'll show you the command first and after I'll explain what it does.

We are creating a sparse image. The sparse image type means that the image we create will only take as much space as the content we put on it, with the limit of 9 Gigabytes that we set. The layout indicates the partition table's layout for the created volume. We are stating that we want a single entry. The partition table layout can be split in multiple /dev entries. For example, we could have one for the GUID Partition Table (GPT), and the other partitions have the data. With the SPUD layout, we will only have one /dev entry. If you want to learn more visit the following links about Apple partition Map and GUID Partition Table.

We also define the file system type to be HFS+J. The BaseSystem.dmg disk image is also in HFS, so that is why we choose it (also because hdiutil can only resize HFS).

Ok, now you can run the command to create the sparse image. I'm showing you the command again:

Let's mount it so we can work on it.

Now we are going to copy the BaseSystem.dmg image into our /Volume/install_build image.

To copy the image we are going to use the asr comm

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