OSX 10.9.3 Guest not booting with more than 3.5gb of Ram

[jrhjr07]

Hey everyone - I have an OSX 10.9.3 host with 10.9.3 guest that I am attempting to run with 6gb or ram. The guest will not boot with more than 3.5gb - it will just display a black screen that Virtual Box continually resizes. I have 16gb of ram installed on the host machine with an i5 processor. Let me know if you have any suggestions or information!

[loukingjr]

which model of Mac and can you post the vbox.log (compressed) for the OSX guest?

edit: btw, which version of VirtualBox are you running? if you are running 4.3.12 you need to make sure that the guest template is set to Mac OS X (64 bit)

[jrhjr07]

which model of Mac and can you post the vbox.log (compressed) for the OSX guest?

edit: btw, which version of VirtualBox are you running? if you are running 4.3.12 you need to make sure that the guest template is set to Mac OS X (64 bit)

loukingjr - I've attached the recent vbox logs - lmk if you'd like to see the entire series of the logs. The Mac is a new mini i5 and its running 4.3.12 with the template set.

[loukingjr]

I'm not sure why you can't boot. mine boots with 4GB or more. how did you install the guest?

[jrhjr07]

I've got it running finally with 6gb of ram - I made two settings changes: 1) changed System - Chipset from ICH9 to PIIX3 ( OSX template default is ICH9 it seems) 2) recreated the VM with a thick provisioned 20gb HDD - not sure if this made a ton of difference, but it was part of my final config on the working OSX 10.9.3 VM

[loukingjr]

I've got it running finally with 6gb of ram - I made two settings changes: 1) changed System - Chipset from ICH9 to PIIX3 ( OSX template default is ICH9 it seems) 2) recreated the VM with a thick provisioned 20gb HDD - not sure if this made a ton of difference, but it was part of my final config on the working OSX 10.9.3 VM

mine works with either chipset. I wish audio worked.