This says nothing about the current ease of accomplishing it, given that no VM on the market actually provides emulation of Mac hardware.

It may be something greater than 11A511 and if so, that greatness may be more suitable for use in virtual machines without the need to hack (see caution below).

Please consider the following extract from Ask Different Chat.

And to anyone who experiments in some other way: be cautious, but enjoy:-).

Something like: What risks surround nonstandard uses of.dmg files for 10.7 (Build 11A511) I made a similar suggestion (that someone should ask the question) under apple.stackexchange.comquestions17761.

So therell be at least one extra step: relaxationexpansion of permissions before that.vdi can be written by the logged-in user.

You may have to convert it first to an.iso: if thats the case, use Disk Utility to convert it to a CDDVD Master image (.cdo) and simply rename it to.iso.

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Ive not tried the 10.9 setup yet, but I have successfully installed and run Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) in VirtualBox 4.3.

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I found I had to go searching for and download a copy of NullCPUPowerManagement.kext in order to get the installer to finish booting, but that was the only extra thing the script needed.

Its essentially using the Lion Installer image from the Mac App Store.

It boils down to drag and drop of the Lion installer to get started.

No disk image conversion, no spare partitions needed as indicated in Installing Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) as a virtual machine in Fusion 4 Additionally there are VMWare Tools available for OS X once you get OS X Lion installed too.

The Lion installer download additional needed components, then reboots.

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