Extract the Image File with Winrar or 7zip. The first thing that you should do is go ahead and install.
OS X Lion virtual machine
The current Mac computer family is based on Intel x86-64 platform and also Mac OS X is optimized for current Intel processors. The only difference between IBM-PC and Macintosh lies in a special EFI BIOS that identifies that is needed for Mac OS X. However, third party developers established project called OSx86, better known as Hackintosh, which allows users to run Mac OS X on non-Apple computers, or in virtualization software.
So let's see how you can run latest Mac OS X Lion in virtual machine created in Oracle VM VirtualBox virtualization software.
How to install Mac OS X Lion to VirtualBoxStep 1 - Install VirtualBox to your computer
You can download free VirtualBox installation package from Oracle website. It has very straightforward installation without any complex settings.
Step 2 - Mac OS X distribution
They are few ways how to install Mac OS X to virtual machine. Advanced users can use original DVD with special boot loaders and test optimal settings for the best Mac OS X performance.
However, we used easier way with a pre-prepared installation image called iATKOS L2, that includes Mac OS X Lion and other utilities, patches as well as hardware drivers that allows users to install Mac OS X. You can Google for it and download it, for example on BitTorrents. Original iATKOS L2 is distributed in DMG format used for Mac OS X installation packages.
Step 3 - Create virtual machine
After you have installed VirtualBox and downloaded iATKOS L2 disk image, it is time to prepare the virtual machine.
To run Mac OS X in virtual machine you need to have processor with Intel VTx, or AMD-v hardware virtualization support. If you don't have it you can also try to install Hackintosh directly to your computer. Read How to create Hackintosh here.
StartVirtualBox and click on New option in the top menu. In welcome screen of the virtual machine wizard, click on Continue button.
Set the VM Name. SetOS Type to Mac OS X and set Version to Mac OS X Server or Mac OS X Server 64 on 64-bit systems (standard Mac OS X is not officially supported in VirtualBox). Click on Continue button.
Specify the name and type of OS
SetBase memory (RAM) to minimum of 1GB, if you can afford it set it to 2 or more.
Set the RAM size
In next Virtual Hard Disk screen uncheck the Start-up disk box → Click on Continue button. You will be warned by message, but ignore it and press again Continue button.
Warning message in VirtualBox wizard
In Summary window click on Create button and new virtual machine will be added to the VirtualBox virtual machine list.
Virtual Machine summary window Step 4 - Virtual machine settings
Right click on new virtual machine and selectSettings option in pull down menu. Go to the System tab and uncheck box with Enable EFI option.
VirtualBox virtual machine settings
Click on Display tab and setVideo Memory to 128MB and check the box Enable 3D Acceleration.
Virtual machine video settings
Click on Storage tab → Click on hard drive icon next to IDE Controller option → SelectCreate new disk.
VirtualBox create a new virtual hard drive
In simple virtual disk creation wizard selectVDI (Virtual Box Disk Image) option and click on Continue button → Storage details set to Dynamically allocated and click on Continue button → Set the name, location and size of virtual disk and click on Continue button (min. 15GB recommended) → On summary window click on Create button.
Now you are back to the Storage settings. Click on 'Empty' optical drive → Click on Optical Disk icon in the Attributes area → click on Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file. and select iATKOS L2 image. Driver hp laserjet 1020 mac download. Now click on Open button and after that OK button.
Mount CD/DVD image in VirtualBox Step 5 - Installing Mac OS X
Now the virtual machine is prepared for Mac OS X installation. Double click on new virtual machine and wait until the Mac OS X installation application started.
Select your language and click on Next arrow.
Mac OS X installation application
Now you need to prepare installation partition on virtual disk. Click on Utilities option in Top menu and selectDisk Utility.
Mac OS X Installer Utilities Mac Os X Iso Download For Virtualbox
Select VBOX HARDDISK in Hard Drive list → Select Erase option → Format - Mac OS Extended (Journaled) → set the name of disk and click on Erase. button. Wait until formatting is finished and close the Disk Utility. Mac book pro for dummies.
You are back in the Mac OS X installation wizard → Click continue button and Agree with Read Me.
Select the installation hard drive and click on Install button. Now it is time for a break and wait until the installation process will be finished.
Mac OS X installation partition
After successful installation, the virtual machine will be restarted. If after restart the machine doesn't reboot, simply close the machine and select power off machine and start machine again.
Mac OS X install succeeded Mac Os X 10.8 Mountain Lion Virtualbox Image Download
After reboot, or restart you will see an Chameleon bootloader. PressF8 key to open boot option and select by arrow key bootable partition with new installed Mac OS X and press Enter.
iATKOS Chameleon bootloader
Wait until the Mac OS X will start Computer Setup Wizard, where you set configuration of your Mac like region, keyboard type, Apple ID, registration, computer account etc.
After the settings are complete you will be welcomed to Mac OS X Lion desktop.
Mac OS X Lion installed in VirtualBox
If you don't want to always use a mounted iATKOS installation image to boot up the system, go the System Preferences → Boot Loader → Boot Setup → check the Default Partition box and type to text box hd(0,2) to set bootable partition and close Bootloader Configuration. Now the system is able to boot without bootable image.
Chameleon Bootloader Configuration app in System Preferences
And that's it. You can now start to learn with Mac OS X operating system, install and test Mac applications as well as develop applications for Mac, iPhone or iPad with Xcode.
Screenshots in this article are from VirtualBox for Mac, but the same settings are working for VirtualBox for Windows and Linux.
UPDATE: For installing Yosemite on VirtualBox, you can check that link.
The market of computer applications is moving day by day from desktop to web and now is moving to smart phone and tablet. Although Android is the most popular operating system on mobile devices but last month two big customers of my company (I work there, not the boss ? ) decided to use iOS for their mobile devices. That means the softwares should be ported, maintained, developed further and supported on iOS. On the market iOS is also the leader on tablet area with its Ipad series. With all of these reasons, I , a .Net/Java programmer, decide to learn programming with Objective C on iOS as my secondary skill.
Like any other programming language, I’ll need a IDE (Integrated Development Environment) but it’s too expensive for me to buy a Macbook running Mac OS. So I just manage to install a MAC OS on VirtualBox and learn Objective C from that fake MAC OS. In this post, I would like to describe step by step how I get a MAC OS 10.7.3 running on VirtualBox. It’s really simple, it just depends on which you download from Internet :).
1. Go to homepage of VirtualBox and download its latest version appropriate with your host OS https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads . Install it.
2. On the homepage of VirtualBox, download “VirtualBox x.x.x Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack”. 3. Open VirtualBox, menu File –> Preferences
4. On VirtualBox – Settings dialog –> Extensions –> Add Package
5. Enable Hardware Virtualization Technology (VT) in your BIOS. You must be sure that your processor supports VT and 64 bits. Without these prerequisites, the virtual machine won’ work.
6. The pre-configured Mac OS X installation image. This image is the most important part during the installation. Any ordinary installation DMG file or disc you download from Apple or any torrent sites won’t work. This pre-created image is configured to be booted in VirtualBox. The credit of image, which I use in this post, belongs to souldevteam. To download this image, you can choose either torrent or direct link from links below.
Torrent: Main: http://www.souldevteam.net/downloads/mac-os-virtualbox-images/mac-os-x-lion/mac-os-x-lion-10.7.3-virtualbox-image.torrent Mirror 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?iftvpgrokvj8ow4 Mirror 2: https://www.box.com/s/b99a70cb61a31f9632f2 Direct link: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=tqu4BEEB
7. It’s about 3,5 GB. When the download is finished, extract .exe file to any folder on your computer, you’ll have 4 files “HackBoot Mod.iso”, “Mac OS X Lion.vbox”, “Mac OS X Lion.vbox-prev” and “Mac OS X Lion.vdi”.
8. In Virtual Box, menu Machine –> Add. Browse to “Mac OS X Lion.vbox”
9. A new virtual machine (Mac OS X Lion) will be added into VirtualBox Manager. Start it.
10. At boot screen choose Macintosh and press Enter
11. Open Terminal check its version with sw_vers command because there is still an error with this pre-configured image. When you click on Apple icon –> About This Mac, the virtual machine will be crashed.
12. Basically the installation process is done. But one of the most annoyed thing when using Mac OS X in virtual machine is keyboard layout. We can’t use Command+C, Command+V to copy and paste data with clipboard. You know, there is no Command key and some of other special keys of Mac in Windows keyboard. I thought of buying a universal keyboard working on both platform Windows and Mac. Mongolian font free download for mac. There’s some kinds of them on market but my current keyboard still works perfectly. Therefore a soft solution will be better for me. To fix this problem, I go to homepage of DoubleCommand, download it http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/ and install it. After installation, you’ll find DoubleCommand in System Preferences
13. Click on DoubleCommand icon to open DoubleCommand windows, configure it as you like and remember to save all your changes by clicking on Save System or Save User. My sample settings are like image below.
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14. Now we have a Mac OS in hand. Let’s go to Apple developer homepage http://developer.apple.com/programs/register/, download Xcode and iOS SDK. Capture nx-d download mac. The first application “Hello World” is waiting for you. ?
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