In the virtual machine: install Snow Leopard then (honouring Apple's license for Snow Leopard as far as possible in this situation) use that installation for nothing other than an immediate upgrade to Lion. Suggestion B: attempt upgrade from Snow Leopard within the virtual machine It may be something greater than 11A511 and if so, that greatness may be more suitable for use in virtual machines without the need to hack (see caution below). Suggestion A: await media from AppleĪwait Apple's provision of Lion on a USB thumb drive. This version of Mac OS X is not supported on this platform! dmg files are recognised.ĭepending on your approach, you might see: With the most recent VirtualBox it is unnecessary to convert disk images.

Whilst end user forums are currently limited to Mac OS X Server, not updated for Lion, there is discussion of Lion (not always Lion Server) in that context. 10.7 (Build 11A511) guest in VirtualBox 4.1 greater

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How to install a Snow Leopard Hackintosh in Virtua.

How to install Mac OS X Lion in Virtualbox.

Replace '1920x1080x32' with whatever resolution you're using. Replace 'Name of virtual machine' with the name of your virtual machine- you can find the name of your virtual machine in the left pane of the Virtualbox main window (in the screenshot below, my virtual machine is named 'Mountain Mac 2'). This command activates 'vboxmanage', a command-line program included with Virtualbox that allows you to edit the properties of your virtual machine, including its built-in resolutions. Vboxmanage setextradata 'Name of virtual machine' 'CustomVideoMode1' '1920x1080x32'

This command will change the focus of the Command Prompt to the program folder for Virtualbox (if you installed Virtualbox somewhere different, then change the command to wherever you installed it). Then, type the following command into the Command Prompt. You can do this by opening the Start Menu, and typing 'command prompt' into the Start Menu search bar. Next, open the Command Prompt in Windows (make sure you are logged into an Administrator account on Windows). For instance, if you want to use the 1600x900 resolution, type in '1600x900x32'. Once you've saved it, turn off the virtual machine. You can change '1920x1080x32' to whatever resolution best fits your monitor.

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