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Can't install OSX Snow Leopard via VirtualBox?

I am having trouble installing Mac OSX Snow Leopard using VirtualBox. Everything goes fine until I try to install it. When it finishes installing, it boots back up and prompts me to install it again. ...
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Move physical Snow Leopard installation into VirtualBox

I've got a physical installation of Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) happily running on my MacBook Pro. I want to move this install (not install a fresh copy of OS X and moving my data, move the extant ...
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VirtualBox cannot create virtualization of Windows 8.1 under Mac OS X 10.6.8

Windows 8 is telling me that I don't have a 64-bit processor, but I do (my Macbook is a 2010 model, all of which come with 64-bit processor). "This 64-bit application couldn't load because your PC ...
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OS X Snow Leopard in Virtual Box fails to boot after software update

I installed a copy of Snow Leopard on a virtual drive in a Windows 7 host. It has been working fairly well in the past few days. I decided to install the updates for OS X and now it is stuck at the ...
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Vagrant complaining virtual box isn't installed when it is

I've installed virtual box 4.1.6 and vagrant-0.8.8 on my mac osx 10.6 box. When I run vagrant it complains that virtual box isn't installed. Any idea how I tell vagrant where virtual box is? This ...
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VirtualBox: Guest Addition for Mac OSX guest in Windows host? [closed]

I have Windows 7 host, and Mac OS X installed as a guest with VirtualBox. How can I install the Guest Additions? Do they exist for Mac OS X guest?
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Trouble installing ubuntu server on virtualbox (osx)

I'm trying to install lucid lynx 10.04.2 server on a virtualbox on snow leopard. I have 2 server iso files freshly downloaded one i386 and one 64bit. When I try to start the virtual machine with ...
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How to install Snowleopard on VirtualBox? [closed]

I would like to try snowleopard on VirtualBox on my Thinkpad T510. I am using Win7 64bit + VirtualBox 3.2. I created a Mac OSX server virtual machine in my virtualbox and start the VM using ...
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VirtualBox pausing VMs at random moments when I am not using them... why?

I have two VirtualBox VMs running headless and they run all the time. A third VM (Windows 7 x64) runs on my desktop in the VirtualBox GUI and is sometimes not used for hours or days. Ever since I ...
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Unable to boot Ubuntu 64-bit in Virtualbox on Mac OS X

I have latest generation Macbook Pro 7.1 (Intel Core 2 Duo) running Mac OS X 10.6.6. I installed Virtuabox 4.0.2 and tried to boot Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit iso. The boot options screen from the live CD ...
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Newbie OSX problem in terminal with running a command on a file in a different folder

I'm trying to run a command on a different folder. The command I'm trying to run is \Applications\VirtualBox.app\MacOS\VBoxManage modifyhd Windows98.vdi --resize 1000 Windows98.vdi i the the ...
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Error trying to run VirtualBox - OSX guest on Windows 7 64bit host

I have just started using VirtualBox on a 64bit version of Windows 7. So far it has been running a Ubuntu for a few weeks with no problems. Today I tried to get OSX to work. I created a virtual ...
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Mac OS X in VirtualBox

I want to buy the MAC OS X operating system from Amazon and wanted to know if it can be install in VirtualBox with Linux as the host machine?
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How do I make VirtualBox's vboxnet interface show up in the OS X network configuration GUI?

I'm willing to do any amount of frobbing of settings in .plist and .xml files to make this work. The scenario is this: I have a nice Android based phone. The phone can do USB tethering. OS X 10.6 ...
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Running OSX in VirtualBox on a Bootcamped Mac pro with Win7

I have bootcamped my Mac Pro with Windows 7 64-bit. I'd like to be able to run OSX in a a VM via VirtualBox. I tried following the steps listed here: http://lifehacker.com/5583650/run-mac-os-x-in-...
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