JBenci
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I'm curious.
Has anyone successfully installed Lion on a Virtual Machine?
Has anyone successfully installed Lion on a Virtual Machine?
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fxit_man
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Yes we have 
We didn't make a how-to as such. But it is definitely possible. If you have any Q's, quite a few of us have done it here - http://iphoneza.co.za/forumdisplay.php?36-Hackintosh-(OS-X-86)
You should try VirtualBox - https://www.virtualbox.org/
Just bear in mind VM's will have no graphics acceleration.
We didn't make a how-to as such. But it is definitely possible. If you have any Q's, quite a few of us have done it here - http://iphoneza.co.za/forumdisplay.php?36-Hackintosh-(OS-X-86)
You should try VirtualBox - https://www.virtualbox.org/
Just bear in mind VM's will have no graphics acceleration.
JBenci
Well-Known Member
What boot loader did you use?
If you didn't use a boot loader, did you create a virtual disk from a live system first?
I know all about virtual box
Thanks for the link, Ill do some reading.
If you didn't use a boot loader, did you create a virtual disk from a live system first?
I know all about virtual box
Thanks for the link, Ill do some reading.
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Works fine for VMWare or Parallels and also no issues with the ML betas.
fxit_man
Executive Member
I personally used VMWare and followed a tutorial online. I think I might have used the Lion Hackboot iso. Give it a shot.
Otherwise i'm sure the guys on our forum would know more if you don't come right.
Another great resource - http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showforum=104
Otherwise i'm sure the guys on our forum would know more if you don't come right.
Another great resource - http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showforum=104
As far as I know all the latest versions of these have default menu items for OSX -- can't talk for VMWare, but Parallels does. I have the latest ML beta running on Parallels btw.
fxit_man
Executive Member
[)roi(];8116262 said:
So you're running ML on Paralells Workstation for Windows? Cool
Nope Mac on Mac... Sorry didn't pick up where you were Windows focused.
fxit_man
Executive Member
[)roi(];8116304 said:
It's cool
got a bit excited for a second there 
even though I have my shiny MBP anyways It's cool
I never had the need to try with a Windows platform; if you have a PC; wouldn't it make more sense to look into a hackintosh?
Btw the GPU acceleration features for Lion and ML work quite well in Parallels, but you need lots of RAM allocated to the VM -- some features are a little flaky with OSX VMs though; multi touch gestures for example will operate on your primary Mac as opposed to the VM.