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Now the system is able to boot without bootable image.Ĭhameleon Bootloader Configuration app in System PreferencesĪnd that's it. 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.

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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.Īfter the settings are complete you will be welcomed to Mac OS X Lion desktop. Press F8 key to open boot option and select by arrow key bootable partition with new installed Mac OS X and press Enter. If after restart the machine doesn't reboot, simply close the machine and select power off machine and start machine again.Īfter reboot, or restart you will see an Chameleon bootloader. Now it is time for a break and wait until the installation process will be finished.Īfter successful installation, the virtual machine will be restarted.

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Select the installation hard drive and click on Install button. You are back in the Mac OS X installation wizard → Click continue button and Agree with Read Me. Wait until formatting is finished and close the Disk Utility. Select VBOX HARDDISK in Hard Drive list → Select Erase option → Format - Mac OS Extended (Journaled) → set the name of disk and click on Erase. Click on Utilities option in Top menu and select Disk Utility. Now you need to prepare installation partition on virtual disk. Select your language and click on Next arrow. Double click on new virtual machine and wait until the Mac OS X installation application started.

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Now the virtual machine is prepared for Mac OS X installation. Now click on Open button and after that OK button. Click on 'Empty' optical drive → Click on Optical Disk icon in the Attributes area → click on Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file. Now you are back to the Storage settings. 15GB recommended) → On summary window click on Create button. In simple virtual disk creation wizard select VDI (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. VirtualBox create a new virtual hard drive Go to the System tab and uncheck box with Enable EFI option.Ĭlick on Display tab and set Video Memory to 128MB and check the box Enable 3D Acceleration.Ĭlick on Storage tab → Click on hard drive icon next to IDE Controller option → Select Create new disk. Right click on new virtual machine and select Settings option in pull down menu. In Summary window click on Create button and new virtual machine will be added to the VirtualBox virtual machine list. You will be warned by message, but ignore it and press again Continue button. In next Virtual Hard Disk screen uncheck the Start-up disk box → Click on Continue button. Set Base memory (RAM) to minimum of 1GB, if you can afford it set it to 2 or more. Set OS 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). In welcome screen of the virtual machine wizard, click on Continue button. Start VirtualBox and click on New option in the top menu. If you don't have it you can also try to install Hackintosh directly to your computer. To run Mac OS X in virtual machine you need to have processor with Intel VTx, or AMD-v hardware virtualization support. Step 3 - Create virtual machineĪfter you have installed VirtualBox and downloaded iATKOS L2 disk image, it is time to prepare the virtual machine.

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.

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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.

Advanced users can use original DVD with special boot loaders and test optimal settings for the best Mac OS X performance.

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They are few ways how to install Mac OS X to virtual machine. It has very straightforward installation without any complex settings. You can download free VirtualBox installation package from Oracle website. How to install Mac OS X Lion to VirtualBox Step 1 - Install VirtualBox to your computer