![]() ![]() I've also tried mounting the InstallESD.dmg image from both my Moutain Lion and Mavericks installers. I've tried attaching the second drive to my DVD-RW drive that had a 10.8 installer DVD in it. I wanted to try VirtualBox as an alternative to Parallels but haven't been able to install Mountain Lion or Mavericks.Ĭreate a new VM, Mac OS X/Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (64bit) Thank you very much for any help you can provide. While Mac-on-Mac virtualization is only experimental in VirtualBox, we can't experiment with it unless there is some direction on getting it installed. It halts now on "System Uptime in nanoseconds: " I installed the Expansion Pack (to VirtualBox on the host Mac) in order to get USB2 (EHCI) support, and the EFI mode installation was quite different this time. I got a little further when on one of the attempts, the installation halted still in EFI mode with the complaint about being unable to find an EHCI controller. The solid box cursor (non-flashing) on the next line doesn't respond to the keyboard, so I cannot type commands. Much activity ensues, with white text on a black screen,Įnding in the last line "AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready" ![]() I select a drive which contains the installation disc for Snow Leopard Server, ![]() I start the new machine which has no OS installed, I too am having difficulty installing Snow Leopard Server on VirtualBox 4.2.16 on my MacPro running Mountain Lion. it is > 2MBĠ0:00:43.571314 Write to extended register 3832 fallen back to generic codeĠ0:00:43.571346 Write to extended register 3836 fallen back to generic codeĠ0:00:43.571378 Write to extended register 3840 fallen back to generic codeĠ0:00:43.571391 32768 messages from group DEV_PCI (#62), muting it. It has been about an hour now, VB using 100% of a CPU. ![]() Changed memory to 4GB, display memory to 64MB, all else default.īrand new 10.6.3 install CD in optical drive, mounted OK.Ĭlicked Start. I have used VB with Windows XP guests, works ok.Ĭreated new VM, selected Mac OS X/Mac OS X (64 bit). Thanks in advance.Installed VirtualBox 4.2.12. Is this just a limitation of playing in VirtualBox? Would I be better off going with a full dual-boot/hackintosh setup? I'm really just looking to learn my way around OS X so I don't necessarily need every bell and whistle, but I'd like it to work better than it does now. In my searching I found at least two other people with the same issues, but no solutions. I spent all afternoon searching, tinkering with VirtualBox settings, and trying various combinations in MultiBeast. System Information shows a total of only 7MB of VRAM, in spite of the fact VirtualBox says it has 128MB to play with. Launchpad is barely usable and brings the system to a dead halt for 20-30 seconds. For instance, videos and flash objects flicker constantly or don't play at all. So far it's mostly pretty functional at 1920x1080, but there are a lot of graphical oddities. (Host system is a home-built machine: Windows 8 64-bit, i5 3570k, Z77 Extreme4 mobo, GTX 560ti 448 GPU.) I'm a noob trying to get a clean install of OS X in VirtualBox. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide ![]()
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