n00b: How to setextradata?

[DevFingers]

Hi. Seriously raw and new on OSX - have experience with VirtualBox on Windows...

But I need some VERY basic help here..

Need to run Windows 8.1 in latest VirtualBox (as of this post) on OS X Yosemite.
I've downloaded my ISO from MSDN.
I've set up VirtualBox guest machine to host Win8
Attached the ISO
I get the same error that others had:

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  Error code: 0x000000C4
Parameters:
0x0000000000000091
0x000000000000000F
0xFFFFF801E5962A80
0x0000000000000000 

And I think to solve it I need to run:

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VBoxManage.exe c [vmname] VBoxInternal/CPUM/CMPXCHG16B 1

But, as you can see, this is OSX, and there's no .exe anything here.

How do I do the same command in OSX? (Told you - I'm in n00b Town Here...)

[loukingjr]

with the guest shutdown, right click on the VM name in the VB GUI, show log, save the vbox.log then compress it and attach it to a message.

[DevFingers]

File as requested - sorry it took a bit.

[socratis]

1. You have selected "Windows 8 (64 bit)". You need to change it to "Windows 8.1 (64 bit)".
2. You do not need to set the extra data. That was an old workaround.
3. In order to execute a command-line executable in OSX, you open up Terminal (in Applications/Utilities) and type "VBoxManage ...". Try it with "VBoxManage list vms".

[DevFingers]

owe you guys a beer. I'd even give up one of my Guinness.

Also, thanks for the tip on terminal. I thought you had to add full path to the app to find it.

I used to work solely in KSH on AIX and Unix - back in IBM Raven Node days. Is there a good primer for OSX shell? It's BSD, no?

[socratis]

The underpinnings of OSX is indeed BSD. Default shell is 'bash', but you can change it. If you have experience with any terminal window, you'll feel right at home...