Always respect Apple’s software licensing agreements. macOS is intended to run on genuine Apple hardware, though virtualized use for development and testing is widely accepted.
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| Version | Build | Terminal Command | |---------|-------|------------------| | (Latest 2021) | 20G224 | softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 11.6.1 | | 11.6 | 20G165 | softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 11.6 | | 11.4 | 20F71 | softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 11.4 | Always respect Apple’s software licensing agreements