OS X on OS X Running OS X on VirtualBox Virtual OS X on Macintosh VirtualBox is my longtime favorite virtualization software. Even though OS X guests are now supported in the lastest VirtualBox, it still has several issues. After investigated the boot process of OS X, I finally made OS X Lion and later working in VirtualBox. Requirement Base Memory: 2048 MB (larger is better) Enable EFI In the lastest VirtualBox, all the default settings work well. Some people encountered black screen upon booting the virtual machine. They reported that changing the default chipset ICH9 to PIIX3 fixes this issue. Prepare Install Disk gem install iesd Yosemite & Mavericks InstallESD.dmg is not bootable. Therefore, we need to create a bootable install disk with BaseSystem.dmg iesd -i /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app -o Mavericks.dmg -t BaseSystem All Macs using Intel Haswell CPU (Macs after 2013) need to fake their CPU as Ivy Bridge in order to boot the virtual machine.
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