Who said Mac OS is meant for Apple made machines only? Well, here is the way to install Mac OS X Lion on Windows using VirutalBox.
The drop-down menu changes to Install Mac OS X Lion. Ensure Operating System is set to Apple Mac OS X and Version is set to OS X 10.7 64-bit then click Continue. If you wish to adjust any of the settings, click Customize Settings to specify non-default values for memory (RAM), CPU, hard disk size, etc. Mac OS is a computer operating system developed by Apple.This is a operating system with beautiful interface, however, to own a the computer of Apple with this operating system, you need to use a lot of money, normally with the double price than that of common computers using Windows operating system.Fortunately, you can experience the Mac OS right on your computer by installing a Mac OS.
- Before we install OS X, we’ll need to set up VirtualBox so the OS X install disc can boot correctly. Here’s what you need to do: Step 1: Launch VirtualBox and click the New button. Give your new virtual machine a name (I just called it “Mac OS X”) and set the operating system to “Mac OS X Server (64-bit)”.
- Extract the Image File with Winrar or 7zip. The first thing that you should do is go ahead and install.
Since we would be installing Lion OS on VirtualBox, you won’t be able to enable the full graphics support. Atleast you would be able to do things on your Windows that were meant for Mac users only. Here is the step by step procedure to install Mac Lion OS on VirutalBox.
Guide To Install Mac OS X Lion On Windows Using VirtualBox
Pr-requisites
- Computer / laptop running on Windows 64 bit as Mac OS X Lion is a 64 bit OS
- 4 GB of RAM
- Dual Core processor or better one
- About 10GB of space on the hard disk
- Download VitrualBox – Its free of cost, so download it from its official site
- Optional – Download VirtualBox Extension Pack if you want to access USB drives on the Mac OS X Lion
- iAktos – It is the best and most popular Mac OS X Lion distro available. You can easily find it on any of the torrent sharing sites. Get is downloaded, and it would cost you around 4GB of your bandwidth. Yes, it is free of cost
Lets Get It Started
- First thing you need to do is setup your Windows machine to host Macintosh OS. So, install VirtualBox on it. And you need, install its Extension Pack also
- Now launch VirtualBox program, and click on New button on the upper left corner to create a virtual machine on your Windows machine and give it a name
- Choose the type as Mac OS X Server (64-bit). Do not even dare to choose the 32 bit option as it would not let you install Mac on Windows
- While assigning RAM to it, remember a simple logic that what ever number you choose, that much of RAM will be allocated to the VirtualBox everytime to run it. So let it be 2GB which is a safe option. If you have bigger RAM sitting on your Machine (8GB or more), you can go with a value bigger than 2GB
- When it asks you to create a new hard disk to it, go with the VDI option which is meant for VirtualBox. And if you have any plans to switch to VMWare in the future, go with the VMDK option. And it is recommended to go with dynamically expanding disk which would surely save some of your hard disk space
- Once it is created, we would have to do some tweaking. Once you launch VirtualBox, you will see your Mac machine on the left panel, just click on it once
- Once the Settings window is infront of you, click on System and uncheck the Enable EFI option. It stands for Extended Firmware Interface which actually helps the OS while bootup
- Now click on the Storage button on the left panel. There you will see a CD icon labelled as Empty. You can to configure it a bit. Select that item and click on Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file. Navigate to the location where you have downloaded the .iso or .dmg of iAtkos
- Startup your virtual machine now and you will see a black and white screen with a Lion image on it. Hit ENTER, choose the language and proceed
- It would now prompt you to choose the location where you want to install Lion. If you do not find any options, do not panic as this is how it is supposed to be.
- Click on Utilities from the Main Menu and click on Disk Utility. Now click on the virtual hard disk, click on Erase tab and then on Erase button
- Now you will find the hard disk on Installation page. Select it and proceed
- It will now take some time and once the installation is complete, Mac will crash. Do not worry. Its all planned
- Restart your Virtual Machine, and eject you iAtkos disc from its virtual drive. You can do it by right clicking on its icon from the task bar and uncheck the .iso and .dmg file
- Restart your Virtual Box again. This time it would display a hard disk on which Lion has been installed. Just select it so that the Virtual Machine uses it to boot and that is it!!!!!!
- One last touch to make it better. There is no official way to increase the screen size. So open the Extras folder from the main hard drive, locate the file org.Chameleon.boot.plist and insert the below lines anywhere between <dict> and </dict> in that file
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1280x1024x32</string>
<string>1280x1024x32</string>
So give it a try! See if you were able to run Mac OS X Lion on Windows Virtual Box. Do let us know if you come across any sort of trouble while doing this magic.
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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 VirtualBox
Step 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. 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. Yandex browser download for mac download.
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
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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 OS X Disk Utility
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
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.
Os X In Virtualbox
Chameleon Bootloader Configuration app in System Preferences
Mac Os X On Virtualbox
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.
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Screenshots in this article are from VirtualBox for Mac, but the same settings are working for VirtualBox for Windows and Linux.