#Macos virtualbox how to#
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In addition, it requires that you do not in any way modify the operating system code. Overall, Apple currently allows for one installation of Snow Leopard Server per purchased license, and requires that the OS be installed on Apple hardware.

#Macos virtualbox full#

Here is the full EULA for Snow Leopard Server: Apple is fairly stringent on where they allow their OS to be used, so I went ahead and read the full EULA (that long legal paper we usually bypass and shrug off when installing most software) to see the details. Seeing this as a feature, I couldn't resist giving it a shot to see how it runs.īefore testing the software out, I made sure to check the EULA requirements for OS X Snow Leopard Server to see if this venture was acceptable.

#Macos virtualbox update#

The update changes the developer references in the program, but also brings another bout of enhancements and optimizations, one of which is support for virtualizing OS X (Apple allows virtualization of the Server OS only). On Monday Oracle released version 3.2 of their VirtualBox software, which it now own as part of its recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

The article has since been updated to reflect this clarification.

#Macos virtualbox mac os x#

Apple's EULA for Snow Leopard allows the installation of one copy of OS X on one Apple-branded computer, while Snow Leopard Server allows additional copies of Mac OS X Server on the same computer, as long as you have licenses for each of these copies. To prevent this (at least for my case), avoid sending the Power Off Message to your VM when closing, better use the ACPI Shutdown method as Power off can leave (as we saw) your machine on an unwanted state.Editor's Note: Since this story was posted, Oracle has updated its Web site to clarify that VirtualBox is for use only with Snow Leopard Server. You can either re-create the VM and point to the existing VDI or create a full clone (it will take longer) and the delete the original. If it starts you know you have a problem with the original VM. That will simply copy the config files to the right place and link with the same VDI. The conclusion is then that the corruption is at the VM state level and we need to get rid of that.Ĭreate a linked Clone. Unless you power off your VM the 'Close' function on your Vm window will ALWAYS save the state of the machine, so 'Discarding' the state is only possible when you have two or more states because in that case at a minimum there is always the LAST state. The possibility is that the VM got corrupted at some point during shut down and that created the config corruption, not a VDI corruption at the VM level, not VirtualBox level.

There's an actual file permissions issue.

#Macos virtualbox install#

There's a problem with the install of Virtual Box.

That completely discards two possibilities: bash: cd: /build/virtualbox-8vePuu/virtualbox-6.1.16-dfsg/: No such file or cd /buildīin dev home lib32 libx32 media opt root sbin sys usrīoot etc lib lib64 lost+found mnt proc run srv tmp varĪnother thing to notice is that for my case other VMs with VDIs in the same location don't have the problem. cd: /build/virtualbox-8vePuu/virtualbox-6.1.16-dfsg/src/VBox/Devices/Storage/: No such file or cd /build/virtualbox-8vePuu/virtualbox-6.1.16-dfsg/ So what the rc above really means is that it cannot FIND that file, because /build doesn't even exist (nor it seems to be supposed to). VMSetError: /build/virtualbox-8vePuu/virtualbox-6.1.16-dfsg/src/VBox/Devices/Storage/DrvVD.cpp(5228) int drvvdConstruct(PPDMDRVINS, PCFGMNODE, uint32_t) rc=VERR_VD_IMAGE_READ_ONLYīut the problem is the /build directory does not exist at all. In the example below the file under /build/virtualbox.is in read only mode. VMSetError and look for the matching RETURN CODE (rc)

#Macos virtualbox how to#

I'll take you through the steps for my particular use case but it should give you a general idea on how to look at the problem in order to find the correct solution.Ī.-Have a look at the actual logs of the VM:Ĭlick on the Menu Item, you should see three choices: The number one thing to do instead of guessing is diagnose and the best way to do that when you don't know what the problem is. Let's look at this from a troubleshooting perspective.