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Mac OS X Leopard on Virtualbox with AMD not working

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While I was testing Mac OS X with VirtualBox on my AMD Computer from which was from 2004, I get into a problem from which prevents Mac OS X from booting on VirtualBox, so I cannot test it on my computer at all, Note: This computer has no USB Booting nor SATA AHCI selection at BIOS, nor the virtualization AMD-V but it has the sleep states but only 3 options was S1, S3, Disabled.

 

so I experiment with these options with VirtualBox on Mac OS X in Windows XP in AMD Computer and discovered it was iDeneb it doesn't need virtualization support I think so I ignored AHCI and Virtualization and started adjusting settings and enabled Mac OS X requirements except of the following:

 

- Virtualization support (not available)

- Nested paging (not available)

 

I have only 2GB RAM of my computer but couldn't upgrade it to 4GB because it only has 3 RAM slots, plus Windows XP cannot handle more than 4GB RAM.

 

I set it up to 1.49GB RAM and left the rest, I inserted the ISO of iDeneb into VM and then I started the VM to see what's going on.

 

I started it and prompted me to press any key to start Darwin/X86 and F8 to enter boot flags before booting to Darwin/X86

 

I made the boot flags (-v) to boot with diagnostic messages and it started Darwin/X86 and PAE is enabled, but as soon as the waiting for boot volume starts, the DVD green light on VM (not the host) starts blinking until it said Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert... with BSD root: disk1s3, Major 14, Minor 3 and then it stops.

 

The boot process stops on VM so I cannot test it on the VM and I don't have blank DVDs nor a USB Booting Option so this computer thinking it was 12 years old.

 

The VM booting stops after these but without Still waiting for root device.

 

I tried to boot with the following kernel flags:

  • -v (Did not work)
  • -v -x (Did not work)
  • -v -f (Did not work)
  • -v -legacy (Did not work)
  • -v acpi=off (Did not work)
  • -v -x -f (Did not work)
  • -v -s (Did not work)

They all did not work for VirtualBox.

 

I just got Got boot device and BSD Root and nothing further than that.

 

My system specs:

  • Windows XP Professional SP3
  • AMD Radeon 9200 Series
  • AMD Athlon XP 1500+
  • WiFi USB Dongle
  • Acer V193W
  • VirtualBox 4.2.24 with extension packs
  • 2GB RAM

See the screenshot from what's exactly what's going on.

 

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Here's my Mac OS X's Virtual machine settings:

 

  • Name: Mac OS X
  • Operating System: FreeBSD
  • Base Memory: 1520MB
  • Boot order: Floppy, CD ROM, Hard drive
  • Chipset: ICH9
  • Enable IO APIC: Yes
  • Processors: 1 CPU
  • Execution Cap: 100
  • PAE/NX: Yes
  • AMD-v VT-x: No
  • Nested Paging: No
  • Video Memory: 128MB
  • Monitors: 1
  • 3D Acceleration: Yes
  • 2D Acceleration: No
  • Controller: IDE
  • HDD: Mac OS X.vdi
  • DVD: iDeneb v1.3 1.0.5.5.iso

I also enabled EFI for the guest and the same thing happened.

 

What line are causing this stop? How do I fix it?

naquaada
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Well, if I see this right you want to virtualize OS X on Windows? On an Athlon XP 1500+? Then you can skip this, because this processor doesn't has the SSE2 instruction set. I don't know if Virtualbox emulates SSE2 or SSE3, but in the end it will be really slow. I found a HP Pavillion zd7000 on the trash (14 years old) and managed to install Leopard 10.5.8. But it has at least a Pentium 4 with 3 GHz, Hyperthreading and SSE2 chipset. However, it is still slow, especcially because the Geforce 5200 FX mobile is just recognized as PCI.

 

If you want a really cheap setup, get yourself a socket 775 bundle on ebay, perhaps the Asus P5Q series. DDR2-RAM is the most expensive part the bundle should conatin as much as possible. Upgrading to a Quadcore is possible for 35 Euro, here are the instructions.

 

Greets.

EoflaOE
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I know that AMD Athlon XP 1500+ has no SSE2/SSE3 nor Virtualization technology, I have the laptop from which has SSE2/SSE3 capability but no Virtualization Technology, It did not work even after creating a machine for the Mac OS X on the laptop on VirtualBox as FreeBSD OS Type, and setting the chipset as ICH9, and even getting the installation to work on VirtualBox on Windows XP on laptop.

 

System configurations for the laptop:

  • Windows XP Professional SP3
  • Mobile Intel express chipset family
  • Intel Celeron CPU 900 SSE2+SSE3+SSSE3, No virtualization, 2.3GHz
  • Realtek HD Audio driver
  • Built-in monitor
  • Built-in keyboard
  • Internal motherboard

System configurations for Mac OS X on VirtualBox on the laptop:

  • 512MB RAM
  • PAE/NX Enabled
  • SSE/SSE2/SSE3 capability
  • 128MB Video memory
  • 3D Acceleration
  • Enable IO APIC: Yes
  • AMD-v/VT-x: No
  • Nested paging: No
  • All the settings are the same as my computer but with differences of RAM of Mac OS X on VirtualBox on the laptop

The laptop is Acer Travelmate 5330

 

I made the boot entry for the ISO so I can boot directly to ISO but after it started I receive a kernel panic with the error code 0x00000002 on startup before installation.

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