Now you can set the virtual machine to boot from the optical drive and load the empirEFIv1085.iso image in the optical drive.Īfter booting, you will see the following interface. Turn off EFI, the experiment using VB's EFI direct boot is unsuccessful Unsuccessful multi-core test installationĢ. Note that the CPU must support SSE2 / SSE3 and Hyper-V, and the memory is 4G, which is allocated to the virtual machine 2G.įirst create a virtual machine in VB, there are a few places to pay attention to:ġ. The host machine is Windows 2008 R2 (圆4). MAC OS X disc image, this direct BT, this article uses the Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard installation disc image, more than 6 G. Ģ.empireEFIv1085.iso, this is the EFI boot disk image (For intel CPU), VirtualBox does have the EFI boot method for Mac OS in the list, but the compatibility is not complimented and cannot boot normally. Oracle Virtual Box, the current latest version used, version 4.1.2. Below are the installation notes in Virtual Box.ġ. Ok, now both VMWare and Virtual Box can install Mac OS X in the virtual machine, which is very convenient. I remember in 2008, in order to install the Mac operating system on the bare metal, I found the patch and driver repeatedly for 2 days.