Re: Status of OSX on OSX
Posted: 6. Aug 2014, 22:10
well, it is possible to install 10.10 as a guest.loukingjr wrote:OSX 10.10 Yosemite Guest, OSX 10.9.3 Mavericks Host
note: can't show the transparency without 3D support.
well, it is possible to install 10.10 as a guest.loukingjr wrote:OSX 10.10 Yosemite Guest, OSX 10.9.3 Mavericks Host
note: can't show the transparency without 3D support.
Instructions?loukingjr wrote:well, it is possible to install 10.10 as a guest.loukingjr wrote:OSX 10.10 Yosemite Guest, OSX 10.9.3 Mavericks Host
note: can't show the transparency without 3D support.
To be honest, I did that nearly two months ago and I don't remember exactly how I did it. I did use rpmurry's hint at changing the cpu info and I may have started with a 10.6.8 guest and updated that.Riot Nrrrd™ wrote:Instructions?
OK. You mean this hint?loukingjr wrote:To be honest, I did that nearly two months ago and I don't remember exactly how I did it. I did use rpmurry's hint at changing the cpu info and I may have started with a 10.6.8 guest and updated that.Riot Nrrrd™ wrote:Instructions?
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VBoxManage modifyvm <vmname> --cpuidset 00000001 000006fb 00000800 80000209 078bfbff
Don't have a separate partition available, and the only port/power plug I have available to use is being used by my 4 TB Time Machine backup disk.loukingjr wrote:If you really want to try OSX 10.10, you would be much better off either installing it on an external drive or a separate partition.
seriously? you might want to try 1 or 2 CPUs.Riot Nrrrd™ wrote: Settings for the VM were 6 CPUs, 128 MB VRAM, 2 GB RAM, "Enable Nested Paging" disabled, "Type: Mac OS X", "Version: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (64 bit)".
When I had gotten the Mountain Lion disc to run the OS installer, it seemed really sluggish with 1 CPU so I thought with a Six-Core Mac Pro I could bump it up a bitloukingjr wrote:seriously? you might want to try 1 or 2 CPUs.Riot Nrrrd™ wrote: Settings for the VM were 6 CPUs, 128 MB VRAM, 2 GB RAM, "Enable Nested Paging" disabled, "Type: Mac OS X", "Version: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (64 bit)".
two might be better. however, without hardware acceleration all OSX guests will be sluggish. which is one of the reasons I don't bother with OSX guests. That and I have four Macs with various versions of OSX installed.Riot Nrrrd™ wrote:When I had gotten the Mountain Lion disc to run the OS installer, it seemed really sluggish with 1 CPU so I thought with a Six-Core Mac Pro I could bump it up a bitloukingjr wrote:seriously? you might want to try 1 or 2 CPUs.Riot Nrrrd™ wrote: Settings for the VM were 6 CPUs, 128 MB VRAM, 2 GB RAM, "Enable Nested Paging" disabled, "Type: Mac OS X", "Version: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (64 bit)".
Not all Mac OS X guests, just guests of OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and OS X 10.5 (Leopard), OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and above were still working at least through VB 4.3.12 according to socratis who has actually worked with those versions. The VirtualBox developers have been making modifications since 4.3.8 that tweak the MSRs.Riot Nrrrd™ wrote:What happened with VirtualBox after 4.3.6 that has screwed things up for Mac OS X guests?
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# ==============================================================
# 10.10 How to make an ISO from the Install.app
# ==============================================================
# Mount the installer image. It assumes that the installation app is called "Install OS X Yosemite.app"
# located in your "Applications" folder. If not, change the first command accordingly.
hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_app
# Convert the boot image to a sparse bundle
hdiutil convert /Volumes/install_app/BaseSystem.dmg -format UDSP -o /tmp/Yosemite
# Increase the sparse bundle capacity to 8GB to accommodate the packages
hdiutil resize -size 8g /tmp/Yosemite.sparseimage
# Mount the sparse bundle for package addition
hdiutil attach /tmp/Yosemite.sparseimage -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build
# Remove Package link and replace with actual files
rm /Volumes/install_build/System/Installation/Packages
cp -rp /Volumes/install_app/Packages /Volumes/install_build/System/Installation/
cp -rp /Volumes/install_app/BaseSystem.* /Volumes/install_build/
# Unmount the installer image
hdiutil detach /Volumes/install_app
# Unmount the sparse bundle
hdiutil detach /Volumes/install_build
# Resize the partition in the sparse bundle to remove any free space
hdiutil resize -size `hdiutil resize -limits /tmp/Yosemite.sparseimage | tail -n 1 | awk '{ print $1 }'`b /tmp/Yosemite.sparseimage
# Convert the sparse bundle to ISO/CD master
hdiutil convert /tmp/Yosemite.sparseimage -format UDTO -o /tmp/Yosemite
# Remove the sparse bundle
rm /tmp/Yosemite.sparseimage
# Rename the ISO and move it to the desktop
mv /tmp/Yosemite.cdr ~/Desktop/Yosemite.iso