Currently, you need the USB drive to boot. To boot without the USB:
Olarila’s Big Sur distributions served a niche of users seeking convenience for Hackintosh and macOS virtualization, bundling complex patches and drivers into ready-to-use images. While technically interesting and useful for experimentation, they carry legal, security, and stability trade-offs. For critical or long-term use, official Apple hardware or legally supported virtualization is strongly recommended.
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(If you want, I can produce: a step-by-step Olarila Big Sur VM setup guide, a checklist to vet community images, or a compatibility table for common PC hardware—choose one.)
Olarila images sometimes emulate NVRAM poorly. To fix iMessage/FaceTime: Currently, you need the USB drive to boot
This is the most critical step. Without the correct configuration for your hardware, the installer will not boot.
You must configure your motherboard BIOS to play nice with macOS. Settings vary by manufacturer (ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI), but the general rules are: Olarila’s Big Sur distributions served a niche of
Unlike the "Clover" method used in the past, modern Olarila guides recommend a simpler method using BalenaEtcher.
Expand the EFI Partition (The "Olarila Method"):
This guide assumes you are using a standard Intel desktop (LGA 1151 Z390/Z490 chipset). Laptops require significantly more EFI tweaking.