Virtualbox For Mac Yosemite

I wrote a tutorial on how to install OS X Yosemite in VirtualBox (On a Mac OS X host) see it here: enjoy! I've use your guide, but my machine is stopped at first boot. The last line is Code: Select all Expand view Collapse view.

Edit: I haven't got this to completely work yet, but it is a good starting point. Keep watching the USB installer thread for ideas. You can run Yosemite in Virtualbox, here's how. • Download Yosemite from app store • run 'gem install iesd' • run 'iesd -i /Applications/Install OS X 10.10 Developer Preview.app -o yosemite.dmg -t BaseSystem' • add yosemite.dmg as a live cd in virtualbox • change the chipset to PIIX3 Once you boot up into the installer you will have to format the drive. Best cd ripping software for mac. Let me know how it works.

Edit: I haven't got this to completely work yet, but it is a good starting point. Keep watching the USB installer thread for ideas. You can run Yosemite in Virtualbox, here's how. • Download Yosemite from app store • run 'gem install iesd' • run 'iesd -i /Applications/Install OS X 10.10 Developer Preview.app -o yosemite.dmg -t BaseSystem' • add yosemite.dmg as a live cd in virtualbox • change the chipset to PIIX3 Once you boot up into the installer you will have to format the drive. Let me know how it works.

Click to expand.Ok, I managed to get this working. Ok, I managed to get this working.

Click to expand.I also noticed a ton of error messages during bootup - stuff like 'Error: 107: malformed bundle' and many others. Don't know if that's normal for the installer.

In the VirtualBox VM settings, I did do a few things that aren't mentioned above: • Used HDD (Parallels format) for the hard drive file; wondering if it might actually boot in Parallels once installed. • System memory 4 GB • Turned on 3D acceleration • Bumped video memory to the max 128 MB This is the latest version of VirtualBox - 4.3.12 r93733. I may retry with the above set to defaults later when I get time. Hmm, no good so far for me.

The installer boots and attempts to install, but eventually encounters an error: I also noticed a ton of error messages during bootup - stuff like 'Error: 107: malformed bundle' and many others. Don't know if that's normal for the installer. In the VirtualBox VM settings, I did do a few things that aren't mentioned above: • Used HDD (Parallels format) for the hard drive file; wondering if it might actually boot in Parallels once installed. • System memory 4 GB • Turned on 3D acceleration • Bumped video memory to the max 128 MB This is the latest version of VirtualBox - 4.3.12 r93733. I may retry with the above set to defaults later when I get time. Click to expand.Yeah, I noticed a ton of errors (including those malformed bundle errors) during bootup, too.

The installer finished just fine for me, though. Not that it did me much good, given that the VM runs so slowly. It's pretty much unusable for anything other than poking around to look at the new features. I bumped up the memory to 4GB, gave the CPU 2 cores, bumped up the video memory and turned on 3D acceleration, but none of that seemed to help much. I also attempted to import the VM into Parallels, but that failed pretty quickly. Crash trying to boot installer I'm trying this method to boot a Yosemite install image in VBox 4.3.18 r96516 It gets into a boot/panic/reboot loop, never bringing up a GUI or installer. The panic is a kernel trap/page fault, the stack is a bit hard to make out from the image but looks like several stack frames in com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin and com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy.

Any clue why it's failing? Host hardware is Mac mini, Mid 2011, 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, OS X 10.9.5 (13F34).