Windows + VirtualBox = MAC OS

[takwing]

Update: I tried again and actually point 2) must be rewritten as follows:

 

 

2) Booting from iATKOS DVD image: installation starts anew from scratch;

 

Other issues persist...

 

Thank you!

 

 

that sounds more reasonable....

 

if you have followed by guide, then at your point 2, your should install the Voodoo kernel. Have you done that?

[machawk1]

I am encountering an issue in trying to install SL (Retail as ISO) using VB 3.2.4. I am able to boot from EFI, format the virtual HD and begin installation, but it always seems to fail at the same point. I changed the network driver over to Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop still to no avail.

 

XPSP3

Core2Duo P8800, 3GB RAM

 

Any suggestions on how to debug this?

VBox.log.txt

[wesley84]

will it be possible for your to real a REAL DVD disc instead of using an ISO image?

 

Sound like other people have encountered this before:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversi...php/t30768.html

 

Thanks, however I didn't do this. I went to this person and installed it on his pc, not knowing if it would fail at the same point or not. It works flawlessly.

 

So there is definitely an issue with doing this on a (i)mac via bootcamp. Thanks for all your help though.

[takwing]

I am encountering an issue in trying to install SL (Retail as ISO) using VB 3.2.4. I am able to boot from EFI, format the virtual HD and begin installation, but it always seems to fail at the same point. I changed the network driver over to Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop still to no avail.

 

XPSP3

Core2Duo P8800, 3GB RAM

 

Any suggestions on how to debug this?

 

so far, I don't think attaching the log file will help to know what is your problem (at least this is the case for me, I don't know how to interpret it).

 

Instead, give us the screen dumps... and of course tell us what are the EXACT steps that you have performed to install SL. For example, after reading your description, it sounds like to me that you use only VB, and the SL retail DVD iso image but nothing else.... well, as far as I know, we should not boot directly from the SL DVD and kick off the installation. We should use the EmpireEFI to boot up the VM, then switch disc....

 

For details, you can refer to my "Virtualizing Snow Leopard under VirtualBox v3.2.0" guide.

[wesley84]

Btw, does anyone know if, after guest additions will become available, QE/CI (quartz extreme/core image) will work in virtualbox?

 

Right now apps like iwork and ilife don't work (blank/white screen) because they do not have that graphics capability via the emulated hardware. Will this work when guest additions are released?

 

Same for aperture? (Though this just complains that no good graphics card is available)

[davidcmc]

Btw, does anyone know if, after guest additions will become available, QE/CI (quartz extreme/core image) will work in virtualbox?

 

Right now apps like iwork and ilife don't work (blank/white screen) because they do not have that graphics capability via the emulated hardware. Will this work when guest additions are released?

 

Same for aperture? (Though this just complains that no good graphics card is available)

 

VBox staff told in their forums that Guest Additions will come out soon.

[wesley84]

VBox staff told in their forums that Guest Additions will come out soon.

 

Yes, but will qe/ci be implemented? Thanks.

[InfiniteBOSS]

i know this wont be good to post a Help needed in P2P Software. but i really need to clarify and know whether it is good or bad.

 

I am downloading Snow Leopard Client Server 10.6.2 SSE2/SSE3 Intel & AMD by Hazard. and now i am at 79.5% Download completed with Wasted: 36.2MB (3 hashfails) . and my question is will the hashfails corrupts my downloaded file or not?

 

I would really need an fast reply upon this. and hope this may help many of peoples who are struggling to get the appreciate answer.

 

Thanks

InfiniteBoss

[davidcmc]

Yes, but will qe/ci be implemented? Thanks.

 

I hope so.

Guest Additions are meant to better integrate the Virtual Machine with the OS.

In Ubuntu and Windows, Guest Additions adds audio, lan and video resources to the OS, including 3D support.

I don't see a reason for VBox staff to release Guest Additions without video/3D capabilities (QE + CI).

[LeXa2]

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I am using virtualbox 3.2.0 though I have tried the newest 3.2.4 as well.

Empire Efi 1.085 & also tried empire efi 1.085 R2

...

Did I forget anything?

...

Yes, you forgot to mention which variants of EmpireEFI 1.085/1.085 R2 had you tried to use.

 

Also, if you would find some time and read some pages of this thread back, you might find a message where I've been posting about the fact that EmpireEFI sometimes hangs with "Press any key..." message displayed on the screen if you let it to boot in graphical mode. The workaround posted there was to try to press the "TAB" key just after switching the DVD image and pressing F5. Chameleon bootloader (which the EmpireEFI is based on) would then switch into the text mode and provide you with a simple menu to select a volume your VM should boot from. Simply select your Mac OS X installation DVD and press Enter. After falling down to the "Press any key..." prompt your VM would (hopefully) react on the keypress and continue booting.

 

Another pimps to tilt: try to lower the amount of the RAM you provide to the VM. EmpireEFI is hardcoded to use no more (and - AFAIK - not less) than 1024Mb of RAM. So, specifying exactly 1024Mb might help in some corner cases.

 

The most funny thing with your setup is that it is madly twisted: you're boot-camping your Mac to the WinXP and try to install Mac OS X inside the Virtual BOX: that's amazing! I wouldn't be surprised if in such conditions it might be possible to install Mac OS X into VBOX VM without the help of the Empire EFI. Just give it a try: turn on the EFI checkbox in the settings page of your VM, insert Max OS X image into the VM DVD, select it to be first in the boot order and head on hoping it would work.

 

As a last resort you may try another trick: find someone with the ordinary PC, install VirtualBOX there, create a brand-new Mac OS X VM, proceed with the Max OS X installation following the well-known guide from this forum thread and copy the resulting virtual disk image and VM XML file onto your WinXP. Even easier: you may try to proceed with the install using the Max OS X, and then copy the resulting VM with the installed Max OS onto the volume that is accessible by your boot-camped WinXP.

 

I am encountering an issue in trying to install SL (Retail as ISO) using VB 3.2.4....

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Any suggestions on how to debug this?

 

1. Give us more info. "I'm trying to fly to the moon but have some problems. What to do?" is not a kind of question that may be easily answered.

 

2. "GURU MEDITATION" in VBox logs should be posted to the VBox bugtracker, not here. People at iNNOTeK/Sun/Corel are actively hunting and fighting bugs that lead to the VM master process hangs ("GURU MEDITATION" is just the sign that something totally wrong happened to the parent VBox process - and it shouldn't, as there should be absolutely no ways for guest to broke the host with the properly written VM hypervisor).

 

i know this wont be good to post a Help needed in P2P Software. but i really need to clarify and know whether it is good or bad.

 

I am downloading Snow Leopard Client Server 10.6.2 SSE2/SSE3 Intel & AMD by Hazard. and now i am at 79.5% Download completed with Wasted: 36.2MB (3 hashfails) . and my question is will the hashfails corrupts my downloaded file or not?

Depends on the P2P protocol and software you use. In case that this is Bittorent or ed2k - just ignore hashfails. This messages are just the signs that somebody on the other side of the wire tried to feed your P2P client with a malformed data - and had failed. Normally operating P2P client will newer signal the successful finish of a download in case the resulting file don't matches the bittorent/ed2k infohash. It will just keep trying to re-download corrupted parts from different peers hoping that it would finally fetch a good piece.

[InfiniteBOSS]

Thanks LeXa2, hopefully i am at 90.0% now. and i hope to finish up this torrent today, and the installation of Mac OS Snow Leopard will be done by today evening and hope the helpers and experts of hackintosh will be here out and help me how to build up in VirtualBox Latest.

 

Remember anyone who gives a part of help for me, get's a Flickr Premium Account. And it will be activated instant. So hope everyone will try keeping me updated on how to install Snow Leopard.

 

Please remember the one who helps me on progress on installation on VirtualBox of Apple Mac OS Snow Leopard, full will get the Gift. surely the one who helps me out in the full process will only get the flickr pro account. Hope you will understand, in better feature.

[LeXa2]

Thanks LeXa2, hopefully i am at 90.0% now....

You are welcome. And as the first attempt to "help" you... I would like to warn you that looks like that the version of Mac OS you're downloading is not the version best-suited to use with the takwing's guide. To be more precise: the guide is mainly about how to successfully install Mac OS X onto VirtualBOX 3.2.x using the retail Mac OS X 10.6.x Install/Upgrade DVD. The retail DVD is the DVD that is used to install Mac OS X on the original Apple's hardware.

 

Any other unofficial build of the Mac OS X install DVD is not guaranted to install flawlessly when following the guide. It might work in some cases, and it might not work in another. So, by violating the first and the most important guide requirement you risk placing yourself to be alone when the troubles arise as your problems would be pretty unique and it would be very hard to give you any advice.

[davidcmc]

You are welcome. And as the first attempt to "help" you... I would like to warn you that looks like that the version of Mac OS you're downloading is not the version best-suited to use with the takwing's guide. To be more precise: the guide is mainly about how to successfully install Mac OS X onto VirtualBOX 3.2.x using the retail Mac OS X 10.6.x Install/Upgrade DVD. The retail DVD is the DVD that is used to install Mac OS X on the original Apple's hardware.

 

Any other unofficial build of the Mac OS X install DVD is not guaranted to install flawlessly when following the guide. It might work in some cases, and it might not work in another. So, by violating the first and the most important guide requirement you risk placing yourself to be alone when the troubles arise as your problems would be pretty unique and it would be very hard to give you any advice.

 

Just get the Retail version and convert the .dmg to .iso with an application for Windows called "PowerISO".

I must advise that, in trial version, it only converts files up to 300Mb. But, you know, there's always a workaround.

It's very simple and you just have to do 4 or 5 clicks to convert the .dmg to .iso. It worked the 1st time I've tried.

[LeXa2]

Just get the Retail version and convert the .dmg to .iso with an application for Windows called "PowerISO". I must advise that, in trial version, it only converts files up to 300Mb. But, you know, there's always a workaround.

I prefer to use dmg2img utility as it is: fast, free, cross-platform and simple. My host system is running linux so my way was to download the dmg2img source code and compile it. If you're on the alternative operating system (windows family) then there is the pre-compiled binary of the utility that is available for download from the authors website. Don't be frighten that the name suggests that the resulting image would be in strange "img" format: it wouldn't. Just run the utility from the command line like this:

	   c:\SomeTempFolder> dmg2img MacOSXInstallDVD10.6.3.dmg MacOSXInstallDVD10.6.3.iso

 

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Now it's time for another piece of valuable information for the owners of AMD CPU's. In case you would try to use VirtualBOX built-in EFI support and had already installed the required "legacy_kernel" you might face another kernel panic when try to boot: the "rtclock_init panic". This one is very widespread but is barely documented on the forums for some unclear reason. The workaround for this panic is to add the "busratio=X" to the kernel boot parameters in your "/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist" file. "X" is the bus multiplier ratio that is specific to the model of your CPU.

 

For example, my workstation is equipped with AMD Phenom II X4 810 CPU (2.6Ghz). Accordingly to the CPU specifications taken from the AMD's website, my CPU has got bus multiplier equal to 13 (200MHz FSB * 13 = 2600MHz CPU). So I had modified my "com.apple.Boot.plist" (actually - created it from scratch as I was using Chameleon bootloader at the past and had switched to the VBox EFI today) to look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
   <key>Kernel</key>
   <string>legacy_kernel</string>
   <key>Kernel Flags</key>
   <string>arch=i386 busratio=13</string>
</dict>
</plist>

 

That was enough to make my VM successfully boot with the built-in VirtualBOX 3.2.4 EFI.

 

Having done with this I had decided to try to make my Mac OS X installation a little bit more vanilla. Unfortunatelly it is impossible to get rid of the patched kernel at the moment, but still there are at least two non-standard kexts that I had installed: fakesmc.kext and NullCPUPowerManagement.kext.

 

Second one seems to be required to overcome high CPU usage issue and periodical kernel panics caused by vanilla AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext (have been reported by lot of hackintosh users). But there's another way of emulating SMC under VirtualBOX that might be used instead of fakesmc.kext - the usage of the "VBoxManage setextradata". So I had deleted the "/System/Library/Extensions/fakesmc.kext", removed the "/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches" folder to force kext cache reconstruction during the next boot, powered down the VM (as always it had a kernel panic during shutdown) and issued the following command at the host command prompt (terminal in *nix terminology) :

VBoxManage setextradata "Mac OS X" "VBoxInternal2/SmcDeviceKey" "ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc"

WARNING: "Mac OS X" here is the name of the VM. Replace it with the name of the your VM accordingly.

 

After this I had started up the VM and the Mac OS X had successfully booted up without fakesmc.kext. The biggest surprise was that the deletion of the "fakesmc.kext" magically healed the kernel panics at restart or shutdown. Now I've got the Mac OS X 10.6.3 VM that is perfectly able to reboot and shutdown without failing to kernel panic. That's amazing!

[takwing]

LeXa2,

 

Thanks for the info.

 

For me, the biggest surprise is that the "VBoxInternal2/SmcDeviceKey" trick works for me this time.... I have tried it earlier but failed... may be I am using the wrong value last time (I know I have to use ( c ) without the space instead of the copyright letter).

 

My VM can shutdown now as expected!..... Definitely, I will update my guide and add add articles based on the information you given also.

[wesley84]

Has anyone been able to get little snitch working (firewall software)? After the restart there's a kernel panic. Test with a snapshot to revert.

[MaxLe]

Hi all.

 

Did one try setting up tiger in VBox ?

Strangely, I cannot start with Mac OS guest, because the VM crashes almost instantly. I need to go back to BSD instead.

My VMs with Leopard & Snow work well, only tiger fail.

Did someone else see that behavior ?

 

Max

VBox 3.2.4 on a Mac Mini (SL 10.6.3).

(I tried both Maxxus & Jas dist.)

[InfiniteBOSS]

Anyways guys... i am using a AMD CPU. and i have got results that using Retail OS Snow Leopard will lead to fail installation. Because i have already tried so.. i have seen a post from here at Insanelymac.com about my Motherboard "Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P" quick guide on installing Snow Leopard. and flawlessly i am trying to follow that post requirements and even the based requirements at Takwing guide.

 

And For MaxLe, please use Vmware Workstation or VMWare Server to install Tiger. and it might be little difficult to install in virtualbox because you need to pickup "FreeBSD". and it will work fine till the complete installation and you need to install Chameleoan.

[MaxLe]

Thnaks InfiniteBOSS for your replay.

Pb here is that I can't use vmware server on a mac. Only fusion is available but not free as VBox is.

Again I can setup tiger (I already done that) but I wanted to take benefit from the MacOS guest and get rid of hacks (as for Leo & SL).

[InfiniteBOSS]

Well Yes. in VirtualBox you have to what the takwing's guide explained. just put the reference codes into XML and disable the EFI and it should work flawlessly. and if you use VMWare's Fusion than it could be more easier to install the tiger because it has an Guest support for tiger in freeBSD setup.

[LeXa2]

i am using a AMD CPU. and i have got results that using Retail OS Snow Leopard will lead to fail installation. Because i have already tried so...

And had apparently done something wrong - your failure is the proof.

 

i have seen a post from here at Insanelymac.com about my Motherboard "Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P" quick guide on installing Snow Leopard...

The model of your motherboard had nothing to do when it comes to the installation inside the VirtualBOX. VM's hardware that got's presented to the guest OS is totally virtualized, the only thing that is real is the CPU. It is even possible to also virtualize the CPU and the Bochs CPU emulator is just the example of such possibility but the emulation speed would be very slow in most of the cases. That's why the CPU emulation isn't used in products like VMware or VirtualBOX.

 

The only thing that differs on all the systems capable of running VirtualBOX is the CPU type presented to the VM - all other guest hardware remains the same no matter is your host OS linux, Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 or Mac OS X. And knowing this I may assure you that in case your CPU meets the requirements (capable of hardware virtualization and SSE3) it is perfectly possible to install and run Mac OS X on your system using the retail Mac OS X 10.6.3 DVD. It have been reported by the bunch of peoples on this thread that the guide had worked for them. It had also worked for me on my AMD CPU based workstation with the exception of the kernel change and "busratio=X" steps that I had done on my own and posted the solutions to this thread. So it should work for you either no matter the model of the motherboard you have.

[InfiniteBOSS]

I have successfully installed Apple Mac OS Snow Leopard ... with no problems everything working expect sound. and i will do a fix by the thing which is guided at takwing's site.

[LeXa2]

... with no problems everything working expect sound...

Yeah, unfortunately sound is still the issue but I hope it'll be fixed with the official release of the VBox Guest Additions for Mac OS X.

[wesley84]

Just wondering about guest additions, since virtualbox is only allowed to officially support mac on mac virtualization, will guest additions even work on windows? I assume it will not access the windows api's, but only apple api's. Can anyone confirm this?

[InfiniteBOSS]

Hey Guys.. could any give me a help on How to change display resolution.. The thing is i dont know what is VirtualBox Command and can anyone explain me with detailed steps... i am currently using now is Apple Snow Leopard.