10.7 Lion in KVM on Debian Squeeze

[chrisjunkie]

Hi All.

 

Long time InsanelyMac reader, only just finished the quiz to be able to post (although have had my user account for ages). First OSX86 install was on my MSI Wind U100 which I especially bought to run OSX on. Used it as a hackintosh, didn't really enjoy the limits of a smaller screen so took on the challenge of installing OSX on my AMD X2 4200+. Was a mission but I got there in the end and have never used another distribution for day to day use.

 

Now I own a MacBook Pro for the smooth experience - nice to not have to muck around with kexts etc...

 

ANYWAY! Enough blabbering from me, here is the situation I face:

Just recently bought a new Core i7-2600, 16GB ram, ASRock Z68 and 4x 2TB HDD's. All this is running Debian Squeeze backported just wonderfully with KVM. Two Windows Server 2k8 R2 VMs, and Five additional Debian Squeeze VMs (why not with all that RAM!!!).

 

Albeit all this awesomeness (and if TL;DR, just start here), I can't for the life of me get Lion to boot on this blimmin' thing. I have followed many guides about installing on VMWare but this has given me no such luck. Basically the boot CD never boots. I've tried Chameleon, EmpireEFI and multiple other tricks. The CD won't boot itself as the QEMU/KVM Bios says "Could not read from CDROM: Code 0005" which I take to mean it can't find files to boot.

 

Chameleon/EmpireEFI start loading kexts but then just halt.

 

I could always use a Snow Leopard Hazard install or similar, but I figure might as well try and get it going with Lion as that is were future support / features will lie.

 

If someone could point me in the right direction or help me out that would be awesome. I read somewhere that new modules need to be compiled but IIRC that was dated a while ago and do not want to risk more than a couple hours downtime on the server.

 

Thanks so much.

Cheers

Chris