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. Stb emulator without mac address. 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 VirtualBox Step 1 - Install VirtualBox to your computer You can download free VirtualBox installation package from Oracle website.

Download the Mountain Lion Installer. On OS X 10.9, you'll get a warning that you can't downgrade, which is fine. Install VirtualBox 4.3.12, or whatever the latest version is. Make a new VM image. You can use either 'Mac OS X (64 bit)' or the 10.8-specific one -- they both seem to work. In our previous post we have shown you that how to install macOS Sierra 10.12 on VMware and now in this article, I’m going to show you that how to install macOS Sierra 10.12 on VirtualBox. Apple has announced the next version of its Mac operating system: Sierra.Of course, the real change is that, after fifteen years, Apple has finally ditched the “OS X” moniker.

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, 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. Start VirtualBox 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.

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). Click on Continue button. Specify the name and type of OS Set Base 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 select Settings 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 set Video 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 → Select Create new disk.

VirtualBox create a new virtual hard drive 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. 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.