Unable to install any version of OS X

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Stubert
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Unable to install any version of OS X

Post by Stubert »

Hi all

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I updated to VB 4.3.6 this evening and wanted to install a guest running 10.6 Server. I creataed a new guest, selected Snow Leopard from the popup and attached a known-working dmg of 10.6 Server. I then booted the guest and received a screen I haven't had before:
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I then tried Mavericks using the InstallESD.dmg within the package and that resulted in the same thing. I'm sure I've used VB in the past to virtualise SLS without any trouble. I have also previously used Fusion and Parallels so I hope I'm not mixing up the two. The manual certainly seems to imply that virtualising Mac OS X while running under Mac OS X on Apple hardware is definitely possible. I'm not going mad, am I?

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
Stubert
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Joined: 17. Jan 2014, 00:33

Re: Unable to install any version of OS X

Post by Stubert »

Just managed to pause on startup and catch this, if it's any help?
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rpmurray
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Primary OS: Mac OS X other
VBox Version: VirtualBox+Oracle ExtPack
Guest OSses: Windows 7, Mac OS X (various flavors)
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Re: Unable to install any version of OS X

Post by rpmurray »

When creating the Snow Leopard Server guest, did you try selecting "Snow Leopard (64-bit)" in the General settings under the Basic tab?
refactored
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Primary OS: Mac OS X other
VBox Version: VirtualBox+Oracle ExtPack
Guest OSses: Windows, Linux

Re: Unable to install any version of OS X

Post by refactored »

Check out this blog post:

http://ntk.me/2012/09/07/os-x-on-os-x/

This got me past that error, although I'm still not successful in creating a Mavericks VM!
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