tart-macos-image-templates/Anka.md

Building Base Image

First, download macOS from App Store to have a *.app installation in /Applications folder and create a vanilla VM to base all other VMs from:

anka create --ram-size 8G --cpu-count 2 --disk-size 80G -a /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app monterey-vanilla

Then run ./scripts/install-anka-builder.sh to install Anka builder for Packer.

To build the base image (you need to have /Applications/Install macOS Big Sur.app/ installed from App Store):

packer build -only=anka templates/base.json

We also need to add a port forwarding rule so VMs based of catalina-base image can be SSHable:

anka modify monterey-base add port-forwarding --host-port 0 --guest-port 22 ssh

Building Xcode Images

To build an Xcode image (don't forget to setup DEVPORTAL_EMAIL and DEVPORTAL_PASSWORD since they are required by xcodes):

packer build -only=anka \
  -var xcode_version="12.3" \
  -var devportal_email="$DEVPORTAL_EMAIL" \
  -var devportal_password="$DEVPORTAL_PASSWORD" \
  templates/xcode.json