Mac OS X boot issues

[blik]

First, let me preface this by saying that I own an iMac along with the license to use Mac OS X. Originally I had replaced OS X partition with Ubuntu and boot using rEFIt boot loader. So OS X has to be compatible with my hardware, I have virtualization enabled in BIOS, and what I'm trying to do by running a virtualized instance of OS X using VirtualBox is completely legal.

Now when I boot a VM from a bootable iso, I get one of two issues:

1) If I enable EFI in the VM settings, the VM recognizes the iso, the OS X bootloader starts, then hangs at "Still waiting for root device".

2) If I disable EFI, I get "No bootable medium found! System Halted". When I drop to shell, the iso I specified is not mounted at all. I've seen suggestions to enable passthrough for the IDE I'm virtualizing to mount the iso, but alas no such option exists anywhere in the VirtualBox gui! I found it in the xml configuration file, however virtualbox rewrites the configuration file on VM launch. Not sure exactly why, but it does.

Basically, I'm wracking my brain over this for the past two days, and would kindly ask for some help. Furthermore, it's not an issue with corrupt iso. I've checked. And they wonder why I don't like working with mac...

Please see attachments for logs and VM configuration.

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
** If you make changes to this file while any VirtualBox related application
** is running, your changes will be overwritten later, without taking effect.
** Use VBoxManage or the VirtualBox Manager GUI to make changes.
-->
<VirtualBox xmlns="blahblahblah you wont let me post urls for some reason">
  <Machine uuid="{0be67d86-04f6-4126-9151-ffbf21f43d55}" name="mac1" OSType="MacOS_64" snapshotFolder="Snapshots" lastStateChange="2015-01-22T16:58:40Z">
    <MediaRegistry>
      <HardDisks>
        <HardDisk uuid="{f33914ad-5b13-41cc-bd58-eb14ddecc0b5}" location="mac1.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/>
      </HardDisks>
      <DVDImages>
        <Image uuid="{25cd340f-e51e-45b6-ac7b-68857683ac46}" location="/home/blik/Downloads/iATKOS_ML3U/iATKOS_ML3U.dmg" format="DMG"/>
        <Image uuid="{5b1098a9-8e84-4035-a682-cfab2516b0db}" location="/home/blik/Downloads/iATKOS_ML3U/ia.iso"/>
        <Image uuid="{47411a9e-fea4-4f44-95e3-c914d4e96288}" location="/home/blik/Downloads/InstallESD.dmg" format="DMG"/>
      </DVDImages>
      <FloppyImages/>
    </MediaRegistry>
    <ExtraData>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastCloseAction" value="PowerOff"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastGuestSizeHint" value="720,400"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastNormalWindowPosition" value="123,510,720,449"/>
    </ExtraData>
    <Hardware version="2">
      <CPU count="1" hotplug="false">
        <HardwareVirtEx enabled="true"/>
        <HardwareVirtExNestedPaging enabled="true"/>
        <HardwareVirtExVPID enabled="true"/>
        <HardwareVirtExUX enabled="true"/>
        <PAE enabled="true"/>
        <LongMode enabled="true"/>
        <HardwareVirtExLargePages enabled="false"/>
        <HardwareVirtForce enabled="false"/>
      </CPU>
      <Memory RAMSize="5031" PageFusion="false"/>
      <HID Pointing="USBTablet" Keyboard="USBKeyboard"/>
      <HPET enabled="true"/>
      <Chipset type="ICH9"/>
      <Boot>
        <Order position="1" device="DVD"/>
        <Order position="2" device="HardDisk"/>
        <Order position="3" device="None"/>
        <Order position="4" device="None"/>
      </Boot>
      <Display VRAMSize="128" monitorCount="1" accelerate3D="true" accelerate2DVideo="false"/>
      <VideoCapture enabled="false" screens="18446744073709551615" horzRes="1024" vertRes="768" rate="512" fps="25"/>
      <RemoteDisplay enabled="false" authType="Null">
        <VRDEProperties>
          <Property name="TCP/Ports" value="3389"/>
        </VRDEProperties>
      </RemoteDisplay>
      <BIOS>
        <ACPI enabled="true"/>
        <IOAPIC enabled="true"/>
        <Logo fadeIn="true" fadeOut="true" displayTime="0"/>
        <BootMenu mode="MessageAndMenu"/>
        <TimeOffset value="0"/>
        <PXEDebug enabled="false"/>
      </BIOS>
      <USB>
        <Controllers>
          <Controller name="OHCI" type="OHCI"/>
        </Controllers>
        <DeviceFilters/>
      </USB>
      <Network>
        <Adapter slot="0" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027620C32" cable="true" speed="0" type="82545EM">
          <DisabledModes/>
          <NAT>
            <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
            <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
          </NAT>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="1" enabled="false" MACAddress="08002719900E" cable="true" speed="0" type="82545EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="2" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800272FDA10" cable="true" speed="0" type="82545EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="3" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800270E9348" cable="true" speed="0" type="82545EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="4" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027D917C8" cable="true" speed="0" type="82545EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="5" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027BCD7D7" cable="true" speed="0" type="82545EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="6" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027E04F34" cable="true" speed="0" type="82545EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
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            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="7" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800279E97C0" cable="true" speed="0" type="82545EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
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            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="8" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027352F3E" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
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            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="9" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800279A7150" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
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            </NAT>
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        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="10" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027BC34DD" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
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            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="11" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027B04352" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="12" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027E18B5D" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="13" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800275716C7" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
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            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="14" enabled="false" MACAddress="08002763A48C" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
              <DNS pass-domain="true" use-proxy="false" use-host-resolver="false"/>
              <Alias logging="false" proxy-only="false" use-same-ports="false"/>
            </NAT>
          </DisabledModes>
        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="15" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800272CBFC6" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973">
          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
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            </NAT>
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        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="16" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027596E6F" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973">
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            <NAT>
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            </NAT>
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        </Adapter>
        <Adapter slot="17" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027B51322" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973">
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        <Adapter slot="18" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027876702" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973">
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        <Adapter slot="19" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027B95028" cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973">
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            </NAT>
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          <DisabledModes>
            <NAT>
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        </Adapter>
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      </UART>
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      <AudioAdapter controller="HDA" driver="Pulse" enabled="false"/>
      <RTC localOrUTC="UTC"/>
      <SharedFolders/>
      <Clipboard mode="Disabled"/>
      <DragAndDrop mode="Disabled"/>
      <IO>
        <IoCache enabled="true" size="5"/>
        <BandwidthGroups/>
      </IO>
      <HostPci>
        <Devices/>
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      <EmulatedUSB>
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      <Guest memoryBalloonSize="0"/>
      <GuestProperties>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/HostInfo/GUI/LanguageID" value="en_US" timestamp="1421945888648602000" flags=""/>
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    <StorageControllers>
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        <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="0" device="0">
          <Image uuid="{f33914ad-5b13-41cc-bd58-eb14ddecc0b5}"/>
        </AttachedDevice>
      </StorageController>
      <StorageController name="IDE" type="PIIX4" PortCount="2" useHostIOCache="true" Bootable="true">
        <AttachedDevice passthrough="false" tempeject="true" type="DVD" port="1" device="0">
          <Image uuid="{47411a9e-fea4-4f44-95e3-c914d4e96288}"/>
        </AttachedDevice>
      </StorageController>
    </StorageControllers>
  </Machine>
</VirtualBox>

[Perryg]

I see two issues.

1) you are not using the VirtualBox version from virtualbox.org but instead you are using the Ubuntu fork. You will need to get your assistance from them or remove theirs and install the one we support.

2) While it is true you are not doing anything illegal we do not support OS X guest an anything other than Mac OS X hosts.

[blik]

So why haven't you guys pushed 4.3 to the official Ubuntu repositories yet? Well either way, purged and installed the newer version and still the same issues.

To the second issue, is it a can't or won't issue? As an android developer, it's kind of a pain in the butt that I can't run a guest of OSX so that I can use XCode for cross platform development. And as I've read, the primary issue why you guys don't support OSX as guest on other platforms is because of licensing and hardware compatibility issues which are completely non-existent in this case. So what exactly is the harm in trying to help me out?

[Perryg]

I simply pass on the rules set down from above. Like I said I can't help. The reasons should be obvious though. There are not that many who buy Mac hardware and remove the OS and install a different breed. Not to mention that the VBox software was not developed to work that way. Can it be? I am sure it could but that would require the DEVs to re-write the code and I have no control over that.

[mpack]

So why haven't you guys pushed 4.3 to the official Ubuntu repositories yet?

As to this question, the software pushed by the Ubuntu repo has nothing to do with us, it's a fork. Ask them if you want to know why they aren't pushing version X of their fork.

[Perryg]

Actually there is no push to Ubuntu. They freeze the versions that came out and rarely do they accept to upgrade it to a newer version until the next feature release come out. Usually a new version.
Every thing is in their control and you would need to ask them why they do not want to update their version of VBox.

[blik]

what a joke... i guess qemu it is