Darwin 8.0.1 x86 (guest) on Windows XP Host

[indranil_leo]

Hi,
Has anyone installed Darwin on VirtualBox on Windows XP host?
I have downloaded darwinx86-801.iso.gz and created .iso bootable CD image using ISO Recorder V2. I configured VirtualBox OS Type as "FreeBSD" and disabled all hardware. However, virtualbox crashes everytime when I try to start the VM.
If anyone has successfully, been able to install Darwin on VirtualBox, please help.
Thank you very much.

[Phobos]

I don't actually recall seeing Darwin working on VBox... maybe I'm wrong, but as per this information: http://sites.google.com/a/puredarwin.or ... virtualbox I think it yet doesn't

[jjsullivan]

actually I just made a guide on how to do this on facepunch

http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=726350

[Technologov]

Yes, I have tried but very long time ago. About two years ago on VBox 1.3.x. It did not work.

-Technologov

[etam]

actually I just made a guide on how to do this on facepunch

http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=726350

Thanks! It's working

[mcandre]

The link is dead. Could someone please repost these details so that others may boot Darwin in VirtualBox?

[socratis]

Wow! I was just looking at that project yesterday!
Did you find a recent Darwin release that we could try? I found the other day a couple of references in the source code where they changed VirtualBox 5.2.2 to accommodate Darwin 6.0.2, so I guess that's as high as we can go. I'll take a closer look and see what I can dig...

• https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/69704/vbox
• https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/69686/vbox
• https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/69662/vbox

[michaln]

You are confusing two things -- on the host side, 'Darwin' refers to the OS X kernel (see the output of 'uname -a' on a Mac). It has nothing to do with Darwin/OS X guests. The first change you listed really does refer to old Darwin guests though (old as in before there was OS X for Intel), the other two don't.

Anyway, if you want stuff straight from Apple, there is the following:

https://opensource.apple.com/static/iso ... 801.iso.gz
https://opensource.apple.com/static/iso ... 701.iso.gz
https://opensource.apple.com/static/iso ... 602.iso.gz
https://opensource.apple.com/static/iso ... 141.iso.gz

For booting Darwin 8.0.1 in VirtualBox, you need to pass the 'rd=disk1s2' argument. The VM also either needs to have no ACPI or must have an I/O APIC. For Darwin 6.0.2 it's 'rd=disk1'.

[socratis]

Thanks Michal, 1) for the clarification, 2) for the links and 3) for the startup options. Will try it later on...
I knew that you'd come to the rescue