How to Install OS X Mountain Lion in Virtualbox With Hackboot

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How to install OS X Mountain Lion in Virtualboxwith Hackboot

We've already shown you how to use Virtualbox to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Mac OS X Lion on virtual machines

in Windows, since it's great practice for installing Mac OS X on your actual computer. And now that OS X Mountain Lion

10.8 has been officially released, we can finally demonstrate how to do it with Mountain Lion too.

LATEST UPDATE (January 27, 2013): Don't want to use Hackboot? Check out the simpler iAtkos method for

installing Mountain Lion on Virtualbox instead.

In essence, this method will let you run Mac OS X from inside a program window in Windows. As always, we're going to

use Virtualbox for this. It's important to note that Windows virtualization programs do not "officially" support Mac OS X, so

you will not be able to enable full graphics support. This tutorial should only be taken as a proof of concept.

Computer RequirementsYou need a computer with Windows to run Mac OS X on Windows (of course). The "System Type" of your copy of Windows

needs to be 64-bit, because OS X Mountain Lion is a 64-bit operating system. If you have a 32-bit copy of Windows, you can

only install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on Virtualbox. You will need at least 4 GB of RAM and a dual-core (two core) processor

or better. Personally, the computer I was using for this had a 4-core processor and 12 GB RAM, which is way more than

enough. You also need about 10 GB of unused hard drive space.

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Right click on "My Computer" on your desktop and click "Properties" to check the stats on your computer. If it doesn't

directly tell you how many cores your processor has, look up your processor model on Wikipedia or Google. You also want

to find out whether your processor is made by "Intel" or "AMD". Computers with AMD processors will not work with

Mountain Lion.

General Requirements

Virtualbox : This virtualization suite is free, and though it doesn't offer official support for Mac OS X, it works well

enough.

Mountain Lion bootable DVD : Unfortunately, the standard method for installing OS X Mountain Lion on PCs

(which uses a paid copy of the Mountain Lion installer) doesn't work with Virtualbox. Instead, you'll have to rely on

pirated "bootable DVD" copies of Mountain Lion, also known as "distros". I won't go into details, but you can

download these copies from about any bittorrent website by using a bittorrent client (it's about 4.5 GB in size). In

the past, we've used the iAtkos distro for this, but iAtkos hasn't updated for Mountain Lion yet, so I used the "OS

X 10.8 Mountain Lion bootable DVD for Intel PCs", by Olarila.

Hackboot 1 / Hackboot 2: Even though it's called a "bootable DVD", the Olarila version of OS X Mountain Lion

still can't boot in Virtualbox by itself. To help Mountain Lion start, you'll need to use Olarila's Hackboot CD. There

are three different versions of Hackboot; we'll need to use two of them in this guide. "Hackboot 1" is for starting

the Mountain Lion installer, while "Hackboot" 2 is for starting Mountain Lion itself.

Multibeast 4.6.1 : You will need to use Multibeast 4.6.1, our favorite Hackintosh post-installation tool, to set up

the Mountain Lion virtual machine after the initial installation. While Multibeast 4.6.1 is an old version designed for

Mac OS X Lion instead of Mountain Lion, in our case, it actually works better than newer versions of

Multibeast. Registration is required on the tonymacx86 website to download this.

Step 1: PrepDownload Virtualbox, install it, and open it up. Also, if you want to be able to view USB devices from your OS X Mountain

Lion virtual machine, download the Virtualbox Extension Pack and run it before going to Step 2.

Step 2: Create a new virtual machine.Virtualbox lets you run Mac OSX within Windows by creating a virtual machine, which is a program that simulates a normal

computer. To create a virtual machine, open up Virtualbox and click "New" on the upper left. Give your new virtual machine a

name, and choose "Mac OS X" for the OS Type.

If your version of Virtualbox asks you to choose between 64-bit and 32-bit, be sure to choose 64-bit. Choosing 32-bit will

result in a critical "Guru Meditation" error later on.

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I recommend assigning 4 GB of RAM to the virtual machine, but you can assign as little as 2 GB of RAM. Every time you

turn on Mac OS X, that RAM that you assign here will be used to run the virtual machine. The RAM will be given back to your

normal computer after you turn Virtualbox off.

You'll need to create a new hard disk for the virtual machine. Virtualbox will ask you what type of disk you want to create:

VDI, VDMK, or VHD. VDI is the original format for Virtualbox, while VDMK is the format used by VMWare. If you're

considering getting a copy of VMWare, you might want to choose VDMK. Otherwise, just choose VDI. I recommend creating

a dynamically expanding disk; the only other option, fixed-size storage, will eat up your hard drive.

Step 3: Give your new virtual machine an operating system.Your virtual machine will now be created. But don't stop now--you still need to change a few settings before your machine will

actually work. Your new virtual machine will show up on the left column of the Virtualbox start page. Select your Mac OS X

virtual machine (single-click) from the main page of Virtualbox, and open up the virtual machine settings. Once the settings

open up, go to "System" and uncheck the "Enable EFI" box. This is by far the most important single setting that you will

need to change.

EFI, which stands for Extended Firmware Interface, is a feature that helps operating systems start up. Unfortunately, Mac

OSX requires 'speshul' EFI, so the EFI that Virtualbox uses doesn't work.

Once you're done with that, go to the settings for "Storage". In the storage tree box, you'll see a CD icon labeled "Empty".

Click on it and click "Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file". In the window that pops up, choose the .iso file for Hackboot 1

(download below).



DOWNLOAD: Hackboot 1

This way, when your virtual machine starts for the first time, it will boot into Hackboot.

Step 4: Install OS X Mountain LionStart up your virtual machine. You will come up to the Hackboot boot screen, with a CD icon labeled "HackBoot" in the

middle. Don't do anything yet.

Your mouse cursor will probably be trapped inside the virtual machine. Press the right "Ctrl" key on your keyboard to allow

your mouse to escape. Then, at the bottom right of the virtual machine screen, right-click on the little CD icon, and click

"Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file". A Windows Explorer window will pop up; from there, select the OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

bootable DVD.



Click back into the Hackboot screen, and press the "F5" key on your keyboard. This will refresh Hackboot. The CD icon in

the middle of the Hackboot screen will now say "OS X Install DVD". Press the enter key on your keyboard. You will then

enter the Mac OS X installer page.

Continue, and you will eventually come up to a page that asks you for a "destination" for your Mac install. Oh no, the page is

blank! We'll have to fix that. To do this, start up Disk Utility (located under the Utilities menu).



Mac OSX can only be installed on a completely clean disk, so you need to use Disk Utility to wipe your Virtualbox hard disk.

Click on the Virtualbox hard disk in Disk Utility and erase it. Don't worry, there's nothing important on it.

On the installation page for Mac OSX, the Virtualbox hard disk should now be showing up. Select it and continue.



Once that's done with, Mac OSX will install itself. This will take at least 20 minutes.

When the installation finishes, Mac OS X will crash into a black screen with white text. This is normal; Mac OS X has

installed successfully. Now proceed to the next step.

Step 5: Boot it upAgain, press the right Ctrl key to allow your mouse to escape from the virtual machine screen. Then, click on the CD icon in

the bottom right of the virtual machine. This time, choose the .iso file for Hackboot 2 (download below).

DOWNLOAD: Hackboot 2

Restart your virtual machine. You'll see the Hackboot screen once more, except there will be an icon for your virtual

machine's hard drive in the middle.



Select it (use the arrow keys on your computer) and press "Enter". Mountain Lion will boot, and you should eventually be led

to the Mac OS X setup screen. Fill it out, and you'll finally be led to the Mac OS X desktop.

This concludes the first part of the guide. However, you're not done yet! You still have to make your virtual machine bootable

without the help of Hackboot.

Step 6: Fix it upBy default, your ethernet (internet) should work in the virtual machine. However, the virtual machine will not have sound, or be

able to boot from the hard drive without help. To fix this, open Safari, and download Multibeast 4.6.1. While Multibeast 4.6.1

is an old version designed for Mac OS X Lion instead of Mountain Lion, in our case, it actually works better than newer

versions of Multibeast. Registration is required on the tonymacx86 website to download this.

DOWNLOAD: Multibeast 4.6.1

Before starting Multibeast, you have to go the "Security" section of System Preferences in Mac OS X, go to the "General"

section, and check "Anywhere" in the "Allow applications" section. Once that's done, run Multibeast and install the following

options (contrary to popular belief, you do not need an actual DSDT file to use UserDSDT).



Next, you'll have to delete a certain kext file in your hard drive that causes boot errors. You can do this from Finder, the file

browser built into Mac OS X. However, Finder hides your hard drives in Mountain Lion by default. To unhide them, open

Finder, and click on File -> Preferences in the menu bar at the top of Mac OS X. Under the "Sidebar" settings, check "Hard

disks", so that Finder will display your virtual machine's hard disks in the sidebar.

Then, go to your main hard drive, and go to /System/Library/Extensions. Inside the Extensions folder, delete the file

AppleGraphicsControl.kext.



This completes the post-installation process for your virtual machine. Eject the Hackboot CD; you can do this by right-

clicking the CD icon at the bottom right of your virtual machine, and unchecking Hackboot. Then, restart your virtual

machine. Mac OS X will now be able to boot normally and play audio. Congratulations!

Step 7: Make the screen biggerThough this step is optional, I still recommend you do it anyways. Anyways, when you first use your Mac OS X, you'll

probably notice one thing: your screen resolution is 1024x768. Since Virtualbox doesn't "technically" support Mac OS X,

there's no official way to change this. But here's how you can change it anyways:

Open up Finder and go to the folder "Extra" in the main hard drive, and open the file org.Chameleon.boot.plist. Between

and in the file, insert the following line.

Graphics Mode

1920x1080x32

You can change "1920x1080x32" to whatever resolution best fits your monitor. For instance, if you want to use the 1600x900

resolution, type in "1600x900x32". Once you've saved it, turn off the virtual machine.

Next, open the Command Prompt in Windows (make sure you are logged into an Administrator account on Windows). You

can do this by opening the Start Menu, and typing "command prompt" into the Start Menu search bar. Then, type the

following command into the Command Prompt.

cd "C:\Program Files\Oracle\Virtualbox"



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This command will change the focus of the Command Prompt to the program folder for Virtualbox (if you installed Virtualbox

somewhere different, then change the command to wherever you installed it). Next, type in this command:

vboxmanage setextradata "Name of virtual machine" "CustomVideoMode1" "1920x1080x32"

This command activates "vboxmanage", a command-line program included with Virtualbox that allows you to edit the

properties of your virtual machine, including its built-in resolutions. Replace "Name of virtual machine" with the name of your

virtual machine-- you can find the name of your virtual machine in the left pane of the Virtualbox main window (in the

screenshot below, my virtual machine is named "Mountain Mac 2"). Replace "1920x1080x32" with whatever resolution you're

using.

Press the enter key to submit the command. Once that's done, start your virtual machine again. It will now boot in full

resolution. Congrats!

RecapI'll just repeat what I said in my other two Virtualbox guides. Installing Mac OS X on a virtual machine is excellent practice for

the real thing: installing Mac OS X on your actual computer. Don't get too comfortable, though. Compared to most

computers, Virtualbox virtual machines are very "vanilla", meaning that they're very compatible with Mac OS X in the first

place. You can't count on being that lucky with a real PC.

And even if you don't plan on doing this for real, with a Hackintosh, it's still a really cool thing to try out over the weekend.

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HELP 4 months ago

after i refreshed and clicked enter, i get stuck at a black screen, and nothing works! help!

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anoy 23 days ago HELP

When you are setting up the intail VM name select 64BIT!!! That'll fix all the problems.

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Jawad Sabra a month ago HELP

Same problem here , any suggestions mate ?

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Qwesi Viet 3 months ago

i press the f5 and prompted me to ENter install and this is what i get and later turn black

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GeorgeFeb 3 days ago Qwesi Viet

Step 3 is fucked up, you guys have to add your MAC OS X.vdi to IDE not to SATA!

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Jawad Sabra a month ago Qwesi Viet

im having the same problem mate , have you solved it yet ?

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Lin Jun Lee a month ago Jawad Sabra

if you're using windows 7/8 and 32 bit, you must wait for a few

minutes after the black screen

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Tanmalhot 6 days ago Lin Jun Lee

How much time should I wait as I am at the same step and it shows above

screen and then a black screen. nothing happened even after 5-10 mins. I am

using OS X 10.7 iso

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Anonymous 5 months ago

Thank you very much!!

A great step by step tutorial, and the results: Works like a charm :)

How do you get all this info? Do you work at Apple? :)

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Everything went perfectly until the last step, now I'm getting an error when I try to boot the machine:

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Mac.

One of the custom modes was incorrect. The format or bit count of the custom mode value is invalid.

(VERR_VGA_INVALID_CUSTOM_MODE).

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)

Component: Console

Interface: IConsole {db7ab4ca-2a3f-4183-9243-c1208da92392}

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sudheer1437 5 months ago

I got stuck in step 4. When I press f5, nothing happens. Please help. This is really very urgent for me.

Thanks!!

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Ibrahim Ansari 4 days ago sudheer1437

Do you have an icon of f5? If it is there, then it is a hotkey and won't work. Use another

keyboard. I had to do this on my entertainment PC..


Great tutorial! Though I cant get through step 4, I had this black screen with text on it saying "Unable to

find driver..." I'm running win7 on i7 and 8gb ram, allocated 4gb. Here's a screenshot

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find driver..." I'm running win7 on i7 and 8gb ram, allocated 4gb. Here's a screenshot

http://imageshack.us/f/201/mac... . Can anyone please help me?

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Ausie dudds 2 months ago

WHEN I PRESS F5 NOTHING HAPPENS!!!

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Anonymous a year ago

Till step 3 it was fine. During step 4 when I pressed enter, I got this error message after it started

loading files "Mach-o file has bad magic number" and it automatically came back to the Install OSX

DVD screen.

Any help on this? plz...

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Marawan 3 months ago Anonymous

Did you find a solution to this issue? Because I'm having the same problem too

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Steven Harnie 3 months ago

I followed your tutorial perfectly but I don't get sound.

In the system preferences / sound there are no sound devices.

"No output devices found"

Any idea what could cause this problem?

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Daniel a month ago

I can't check "About this Mac" it just freezes up and refreshes the dock.

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himesh modas iya a month ago

I did exactly what I was told for changing the resolution but it stayed exactly the same.

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Prakas 3 months ago

When I started the virtual machine below message was received and the installation of os x couldn't

start.Need help.

"VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational. Your 64-bit guest will fail

to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

Please ensure that you have enabled VT-x/AMD-V properly in the BIOS of your host computer."

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sorifiend a month ago Prakas

You need to restart your PC, then go to BIOS and enable VT (virtualization)

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If any of you can't change the settings to allow the 3rd party app the just hit the button you assign to

control (Mine is CTRL) then click on MultiBeast then hit open

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5 months ago

You sir should be awarded the Nobel Peace Price! I've spent 4 days banging my head about this. In

the end I've disabled the sound in my virtual machine and increased the Virtual Hard Disk and RAM

sizes, and voila, my Mac OS X guest is up and running!

My host is Ubuntu 13.04, and my hardware is Acer Aspire 5830TG

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Jonny 5 months ago

I know it has been awhile, but did you ever figure this out? I'm getting stuck at the same place.

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The administrator's password is the one that you set after booting from Hackboot 2.

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hi,

i have OSx 10.8.3 in VirtualBox 4.2.10 and Multibeast 5.2.1

Audio Card: Intel HD. Witch VoodooHDA Version is working for the Virtual Hardware ?

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THIS WORKS PERFECTLY! thank you for such a wonderful guide. I can now use Garageband on my

PC!

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Anonymous a year ago

great i got it to refresh and now its giving me the mach-0 has a bad magic number error !!!!!!!!

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Marawan 3 months ago Anonymous

Did you manage to solve this probelm? I have the same issue

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taxman81 3 months ago Marawan

I just did this and got the same error - what i did to make it work was went into my BIOS

and enabled Intel Virtualization Technology. Now it works like a charm.

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Marawan 3 months ago taxman81

Thanks I did that, it didn't exactly work but I guess I'm a step closer to getting it

to work now! I'm getting some weird errors

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Denis a year ago

I have a question. Is it possible to install Snow leapord/Lion/Mountain Lion in virtual machine if the

system doesn't support VT-x (hardware virtualization support)

Also I too got the "Mach-o file has bad magic number" error on trying the above steps with my acer

4750 laptop(which doesn't support VT-x as mentioned above).

With iAtkosL1 I got the grey screen with apple logo on the same acer laptop. Can you please help me

with any workaround for any of these issues?

Thanks in advance

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Marawan 3 months ago Denis

Did you find a solution to the bad magic number issue?

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Biprajit Sharma 2 months ago

I am getting two error 1. vt-1/amd-v hardware acceleration is not enabled which I am ignoring, other

one is Mach-0 file has a bad magic no.

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James Block a month ago Biprajit Sharma

You NEED vt-1/amd-v hardware acceleration.

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Misafir 6 days ago

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Mike a month ago

Can I update Mountain Lion through the appstore after this install? or is that a bad idea?

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MacBreaker a month agoM o d Mike

Updating through the App Store will usually work, but it can be risky-- the results vary from

computer to computer. If you want to update, you'll have to reinstall your audio drivers through

Multibeast afterwards (so basically, install AppleHDA Rollback again).

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Ross Necro a month ago

Hi, thanks for the guide. I got to the last point where I changed bits to up the resolution and now I can't

seem to boot up, it just sits at the grey boot up screen spinning. Any idea why or how to change it back

to when it worked before the change?

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2Anonymus a month ago

I got stuck in step 4 during the installation. It says just 4 more minutes but it does not load anymore.

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2Anonymus a month ago 2Anonymus

now I restarted installing os x but it says - 10 minutes ?! Is this normal?

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Jorge Gonzalez 2 months ago

Everything's working fine, except I cannot configure my camera or any sound. Help?

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Liam Hart 2 months ago

Works like a charm, i can finally use Logic Pro on my PC, thanks for the awesome tutorial :)

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nick 2 months ago

SAME AS BELOW... now what? some kernel stuff

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jkhazraji . 3 months ago

Awesome. Thanks very much. At last I could see Mac OS X 'Live' on my PC screen. Great job!!

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MGT 3 months ago

I have a few problems/questions. When I follow step 7, changing the file in the Mac is fine, but when I

do the stuff with the CMD, it gives me an error (after I put in vboxmanage setextradata "Name of virtual

machine" "CustomVideoMode1" "1920x1080x32") however, when I boot the machine back on, it

seams to work. Idk whats happening, but I guess I don't need the cmd

Question: the mac keeps telling me to upgrade my OS in the appstore. Should I do this? Will it break

the tonymacx86 stuff and the hackboot.iso? If I can upgrade, I will.

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Marcel Ares 3 months ago

Everything went fine... Until the "Enable location services" screen, on the initial instalation wizard.

Whenever I click on "Continue" it restarts the process, taking me back to the welcome screen.

Any tips?

Thanks and congrats.

Marcel Ares 3 months ago Marcel Ares

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Marcel Ares 3 months ago Marcel Ares

Please? :)

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This REALLY HELPED thanks you're a beast great step-by-step

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