Mavericks locks-up during installation on Mavericks

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I'm trying to create a Mavericks guest on a Mavericks host, and it seems to just lock-up during the boot/install process.

Here's a screenshot of the point where it stops:

Any idea how I can progress things from this point?

[socratis]

Two questions:
1) How long did you wait at that point? It may take a while...
2) Can you post the "Mavericks.vbox" file so I can compare it with mine?

[refactored]

Um, I did leave it around 10 or 15 mins the last time I ran it. Could it take longer than that?

.vbox file below:

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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="http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings" version="1.14-macosx">
  <Machine uuid="{84acd4de-5671-40dc-adca-fc0a9feec94a}" name="Mavericks" OSType="MacOS109_64" snapshotFolder="Snapshots" lastStateChange="2014-01-22T09:41:13Z">
    <MediaRegistry>
      <HardDisks>
        <HardDisk uuid="{610df5b6-6e10-48ec-b288-b8c86c2a2c83}" location="Mavericks.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/>
      </HardDisks>
      <DVDImages>
        <Image uuid="{0a2a0886-10e9-4e99-adfd-34cda4baed54}" location="/Users/phillipoldham/Desktop/Mavericks.dmg" format="DMG"/>
      </DVDImages>
      <FloppyImages/>
    </MediaRegistry>
    <ExtraData>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastCloseAction" value="PowerOff"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastGuestSizeHint" value="1024,768"/>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastNormalWindowPosition" value="208,44,1024,789"/>
    </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="true"/>
        <HardwareVirtForce enabled="false"/>
      </CPU>
      <Memory RAMSize="4096" PageFusion="false"/>
      <Firmware type="EFI"/>
      <HID Pointing="PS2Mouse" Keyboard="USBKeyboard"/>
      <HPET enabled="true"/>
      <Chipset type="PIIX3"/>
      <Boot>
        <Order position="1" device="DVD"/>
        <Order position="2" device="HardDisk"/>
        <Order position="3" device="None"/>
        <Order position="4" device="None"/>
      </Boot>
      <Display VRAMSize="6" monitorCount="1" accelerate3D="false" accelerate2DVideo="false"/>
      <VideoCapture enabled="false" screens="18446744073709551615" horzRes="1024" vertRes="768" rate="512" fps="25"/>
      <RemoteDisplay enabled="false" authType="Null" authTimeout="5000"/>
      <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="true" MACAddress="080027A91495" cable="true" speed="0" type="82545EM">
          <DisabledModes>
            <InternalNetwork name="intnet"/>
            <NATNetwork name="NatNetwork"/>
          </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="080027EDFCFF" 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="080027E0C9E4" 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="080027ABD484" 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="08002736F584" 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="080027816021" 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="08002735AFCB" 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="7" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800273A9465" 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>
      </Network>
      <UART>
        <Port slot="0" enabled="false" IOBase="0x3f8" IRQ="4" hostMode="Disconnected"/>
        <Port slot="1" enabled="false" IOBase="0x2f8" IRQ="3" hostMode="Disconnected"/>
      </UART>
      <LPT>
        <Port slot="0" enabled="false" IOBase="0x378" IRQ="7"/>
        <Port slot="1" enabled="false" IOBase="0x378" IRQ="7"/>
      </LPT>
      <AudioAdapter controller="HDA" driver="CoreAudio" enabled="true"/>
      <RTC localOrUTC="UTC"/>
      <SharedFolders/>
      <Clipboard mode="Disabled"/>
      <DragAndDrop mode="Disabled"/>
      <IO>
        <IoCache enabled="true" size="5"/>
        <BandwidthGroups/>
      </IO>
      <HostPci>
        <Devices/>
      </HostPci>
      <EmulatedUSB>
        <CardReader enabled="false"/>
      </EmulatedUSB>
      <Guest memoryBalloonSize="0"/>
      <GuestProperties>
        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/HostInfo/GUI/LanguageID" value="en_US" timestamp="1390383547214703000" flags=""/>
      </GuestProperties>
    </Hardware>
    <StorageControllers>
      <StorageController name="SATA" type="AHCI" PortCount="2" useHostIOCache="false" Bootable="true" IDE0MasterEmulationPort="0" IDE0SlaveEmulationPort="1" IDE1MasterEmulationPort="2" IDE1SlaveEmulationPort="3">
        <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="0" device="0">
          <Image uuid="{610df5b6-6e10-48ec-b288-b8c86c2a2c83}"/>
        </AttachedDevice>
        <AttachedDevice passthrough="false" type="DVD" port="1" device="0">
          <Image uuid="{0a2a0886-10e9-4e99-adfd-34cda4baed54}"/>
        </AttachedDevice>
      </StorageController>
    </StorageControllers>
  </Machine>
</VirtualBox>

[refactored]

Ah, just found this on a blog...

All Macs using Intel Haswell CPU (Macs after 2013) currently have an issue that prevents booting, which is caused by Mavericks' new Xnu CPU Power Management.

I'm using a 2013 Macbook Air with the Haswell i7.

Do we know if/when there will be a fix for this?

[socratis]

A couple of notes and/or problematic areas that need to be addressed:

• You are allocating 4GB of RAM. I should have asked for the VBox.log as well to see if anything in there fails (like not enough RAM?). Would you mind attaching it?
• You have selected "PS/2 mouse" as your pointing device.
• You have selected "PIIX3" as your chipset.
• You have allocated 6 MB (!!!) for your VRAM. Not enough. Didn't VBox flag this as invalid settings?

Why did you deviate so much from the proposed recipe?

That "blog" that you quote. I found one reference in the internet that seems to fit the quotation; OS X on OS X. Running OS X on VirtualBox. Did you try to follow the instructions?

[refactored]

Thanks for the response:

1. Minimum spec for Mavericks is 2GB. My MBA only has 8GB, so 4 seemed like a good balance of performance and resources.
2. I've also tried with the default USB Tablet, which didn't work
3. The VM starts with a blank screen and does not progress when using the default chipset; PIIX3 was recommended on a blog and allowed me to at least start the install process.
4. No, this wasn't raised by VB as an incorrect setting. I've also played about with that setting with no results.

I've tried a number of configurations to try and push the system into progressing from the stopping point, with no luck.

Yes, that's the blog I used, and yes, I followed the instructions to the letter. No dice. However, I *have* got Mountain Lion installed, which is suitable for my requirements. Would've been nice to use Mavericks, but not essential.

Thanks for your help!

[socratis]

OK, last try. Start with the default "recipe" for 10.9. Don't mess with it. One thing I just noticed is that you had the EHCI (aka USB 2.0) controller disabled. 10.9 complained about that in the screenshot you posted. Maybe?