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The only info relevant to run the Mac OS X under VirtualBOX is the model of your CPU. I might be wrong but it seems to me that your CPU is too new and there are no official Apple Mac computers out there with this CPU installed. Knowing that I want to warn you that you'd most probably get the "black screen" kernel panic if you'd try to install using native Mac OS X kernel. And you would definitely have no luck at using any Mac OS X versions prior to 10.6.6 with native kernel. Chances are that Apple is going to update the hardware of Mac computers soon and their configurations would include Core i7 CPU. If that's a case then there might be that support for this CPU had been introduced in the kernel shipped with 10.6.6.

 

On the other hand, nothing stops you to install 10.6.5 version of Mac OS X with the patched legacy kernel and use it as a base for testing. Who knows, may be you'd be lucky enough to get 10.5.0 vanilla kernel (the version shipped with OS X 10.6.5) to work with your CPU under VirtualBOX. Succeeding with it would mean that it is safe for you to update to 10.6.6.

 

So, what's the point to ask ;-)? Just give it a try, as takwing had already said.

 

I am just not real sure on the setup of a virtual box OSX image. I am used to VMWKST7 and Virtual PC but it seems to be pretty different. I just want to make sure i get started in the right direction so i don't end up having to ask a ton of questions on here.

 

I appreciate the responses. PM me if you guys have any extra input. Thanks again.

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it doesn't work, I cannot connect to anything.

Then you had obviously done something wrong setting up VBox network settings and/or your host OS network settings. Using Samba to exchange files with host OS is by far the most fastest and easiest way this days when running Mac OS X under VBox.

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Hi i'm running vbox 4.0.2 with iATKOS S3 v2 my only probem is sound i dont have a kernel panic anymore using Intel HD audio windows direct sound my i lost the sound a couple boot ago dont know why everything was working and stop for no reason i ha ve the last update of OSX 10.6.6

 

I can see the little speaker but it gray and i can't raise the volume

 

Can someone point me a .kext that is working for vbox except voodoohda because it laggy sound

 

PS i manage to install with your tutorial and all my problem are fixed for sound thanks

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Just wanted to say thanks for all the info on this topic. I was struggling away and cme across this topic. I have it working now with VirtualBox's EFI setting. So booting fine.

 

In particular the two AMD links for the Boot.plist updates here were invaluable.

http://www.takwing.idv.hk/tech/virtual/vb4...nowl/index.html

 

AMD Phenom x2 545, Win7x64, VirtualBox 4.02, OSX 10.6.3 HOTiSO

 

Thanks again

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I'm still trying to find a way to run vanilla Mac OS X kernel inside VirtualBOX on AMD CPU equipped host.

ATM I need some feedback from people running vanilla kernel in their guests and having Intel CPU equipped hosts.

It would be great if one would find some time to execute "VBoxManage list hostcpuids" command in the console and paste the output to this thread.

 

It should look similar to this:

[lexa2@lx2linux 2011-02-20]$ VBoxManage list hostcpuids
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.12
© 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

Host CPUIDs:

Leaf no.  EAX      EBX      ECX      EDX
00000000  00000005 68747541 444d4163 69746e65
00000001  00100f43 01040800 00802009 178bfbff
00000002  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000003  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000004  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000005  00000040 00000040 00000003 00000000
00000006  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000000  8000001b 68747541 444d4163 69746e65
80000001  00100f43 10001b76 000037ff efd3fbff
80000002  20444d41 6e656850 74286d6f 4920296d
80000003  34582049 35353920 6f725020 73736563
80000004  0000726f 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000005  ff30ff10 ff30ff20 40020140 40020140
80000006  20800000 42004200 02008140 0030b140
80000007  00000000 00000000 00000000 000001f9
80000008  00003030 00000000 00002003 00000000
80000009  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000000a  00000001 00000040 00000000 0000000f
8000000b  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000000c  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000000d  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000000e  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000000f  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000010  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000011  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000012  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000013  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000014  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000015  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000016  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000017  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000018  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000019  f0300000 60100000 00000000 00000000
8000001a  00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000001b  0000001f 00000000 00000000 00000000
8000001c  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

 

Along with the output please post the exact model and type of your CPU. The idea is to fool guest system into thinking that it is equipped with the Intel CPU by spoofing the results of the CPUID command. With a bit of luck this might allow to run 32bit vanilla kernel on hosts with recent AMD CPUs. 64bit kernel is guaranteed to crash due to differences between AMD64 and Intel EM64T x86-64 implementations (SYSCALL vs. SYSENTER opcodes problem). Thanks to volunteers in advance!

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Am I wishing for the impossible? I have a AMD box capable of AMD virtualization with VBox 3.2.8 on it. Would like to be able to install OSx either in this VBox or the current one and be able to update the OSx virtual machine with the Apple Updates. Is it possible to do this if I went out and purchased a retail upgrade of Snow Leopard or am I hoping for the impossible?

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