Blank screen after attempting to install another OS about macos-virtual-machine HOT 4 CLOSED

I ended up attempting to restore the VM using Apple Configurator 2 and the IPSW firmware file, but this just wiped the image and factory reset the macOS Monterey installation, so I guess the big question is how can I create multiple Monterey and Big Sur VMs? Also, how would I back them up? It seems backing up just the disk.img file may not be enough.

At some point, I may try a few other experiments, and if I figure it out, I will update here. Thanks again for putting this together.

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Hi James.
First of all, I strongly recommend you to switch to this project, KhaosT will provide much better support.
And I don't think Big Sur VM will be possible, because the Big Sur install image is not containing proper device information and drivers that are required for VM to start correctly.
Manually copy them from Monterey to Big Sur might work but I didn't try it though.

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Thanks for the reply @ming900518 but I wasn't able to get Khaos's solution to work. I'm just getting a file picker dialog, and I'm not entirely clear what I'm supposed to do with that. KhaosT/MacVM#12

I'll wait for Khaos's reply. Cheers.

James

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Just to follow up, when I clicked "New Document" in the file picker dialog, the UI appeared and I was able to proceed. Hope it helps others. Thank you. I now have two macOS Monterey VM's, one running from this project and one from KhaosT/MacVM.

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