macOS 14.x Sonoma [Beta]

[Aries@PF]

A thread for those testing the latest Beta OS

My experience so far:
I tried using a clone of my Ventura VM to get the beta loaded and so far it looks like it's not cooperating. Running Intel with plenty of resources and maxed resource allocation for the Desktop version of Parallels 17. I'm guessing that I'm going to be told to upgrade to v18, but I don't have any other reason to do so anytime soon. For now, I'm going to toy with it for a bit and see what happens.

 

[AaronM17]

See my post about switching the network driver in parallels, "Got Ventura VM working in Ventura" and see if that helps get past the locked-up boot screen.

 

[Aries@PF]

How to boot a macOS guest in safe mode:

https://kb.parallels.com/en/124181
... so verbose would be like this:

devices.mac.boot_args="-v"

I tried installing the Xcode 15 beta, but it made no difference: the macOS 14 Sonoma guest still hangs at boot, using the default Apple Metal graphics driver, both with the Apple and Parallels hypervisor; while with the "old" Parallels non-Metal graphics driver, it works fine (but of course in a less usable way: sluggish and with no transparency effects)...

Had to use safe mode to get the OS to boot in parallels, but here's the verbose when I tried without and it would hang trying to boot.

AppleKeyStore:11863:144: unexpected session did: -1 requested by: bluetoothd (144)
AppleKeyStore:11863:144: operation failed (see: 7 ret: e00002c2, -1)
AppleKeyStore:11863:144: operation failed (see: 7 ret: e00002bc, -1)
[AHCI][PRT][001F0210] AbortCommands: :5382ort 1 - called, deviceWithError 0, recode = 0xe0030005

 

[Aries@PF]

Did it again, only took away the safe boot and added the `prlctl set 63db51a7-ebba-46e9-bea5-6810ef9115db --video-adapter-type virtio. The graphics appears to have corrected itself, but it hung at the line above what I posted last (IE: Didn't see the very last line)

 

[Aries@PF]

Correction, I don't think the graphics have changed as it's not recognizing the size of the window. The Guest reports 1024x768 and 3 Mb of vRAM.

 

[AaronM17]

"Apple hasn't yet dropped Intel, with macOS 14 Sonoma."
HUH? Available day-1 Intel.

 

[AaronM17]

Sonoma was available Day-1 on Intel:

 

[Aries@PF]

Sonoma was available Day-1 on Intel:
View attachment 20882

That's not what the statement was saying. Some thought that it was M-Series / ARM Macs only.

 

[Abhishek9971]

Thank you for the information. You provide valuable information. This information is so helpful.

 

[Aries@PF]

While still using the safe mode flag, I recently updated the Guest to the v2 of Beta, rebooted after removing the boot flags, and now the Beta launches without issue. It even shows the "full" 64 Mb of virtual GPU vRAM. No known updates to parallels or the tools was observed, so it looks like whatever was incompatible with Parallels (causing the boot issues) has been resolved in the Beta itself.

 

[Sven G]

Yes, macOS 14 Sonoma beta 2 (Intel) indeed works - and with full Apple accelerated graphics - as a Parallels Desktop (18.3.1) VM, with the Tools installed (also on my old MBP11,3, with the latest OCLP: however, only with only the iGPU enabled; while with the dGPU enabled - the default automatic switching - there is only a black screen)...

 

[Sven G]

^^^ BTW, it works both with the Parallels and Apple hypervisors.

 

[KirillG3]

Hello everyone! I am trying to install Mac OS sonoma beta 2 but it stuck at less than 1 minute remaining, someone knows how to fix that problem???

 

[JulsS]

Anyone find a way to install the public beta as guest on Apple Silicon host?

 

[JulsS]

Thanks but that will only work for developer accounts and not the public beta.

 

[JulsS]

Thanks. I didn't know that.