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Virtualbox for mac os x lion install#
Virtualbox for mac os x lion 32 bit#

Click on Utilities from the Main Menu and click on Disk Utility.

If you do not find any options, do not panic as this is how it is supposed to be.

Virtualbox for mac os x lion install#

It would now prompt you to choose the location where you want to install Lion.

Hit ENTER, choose the language and proceed

Startup your virtual machine now and you will see a black and white screen with a Lion image on it.

Navigate to the location where you have downloaded the. Select that item and click on Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file. There you will see a CD icon labelled as Empty.

Now click on the Storage button on the left panel.

It stands for Extended Firmware Interface which actually helps the OS while bootup

Once the Settings window is infront of you, click on System and uncheck the Enable EFI option.

Once you launch VirtualBox, you will see your Mac machine on the left panel, just click on it once

Once it is created, we would have to do some tweaking.

And it is recommended to go with dynamically expanding disk which would surely save some of your hard disk space And if you have any plans to switch to VMWare in the future, go with the VMDK option.

When it asks you to create a new hard disk to it, go with the VDI option which is meant for VirtualBox.

If you have bigger RAM sitting on your Machine (8GB or more), you can go with a value bigger than 2GB

While assigning RAM to it, remember a simple logic that what ever number you choose, that much of RAM will be allocated to the VirtualBox everytime to run it.

Virtualbox for mac os x lion 32 bit#

Do not even dare to choose the 32 bit option as it would not let you install Mac on Windows

Choose the type as Mac OS X Server (64-bit).Now launch VirtualBox program, and click on New button on the upper left corner to create a virtual machine on your Windows machine and give it a name.And you need, install its Extension Pack also First thing you need to do is setup your Windows machine to host Macintosh OS.