Opened 13 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#9388 closed enhancement
Support Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Guest — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | mackyle | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 4.1.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Mac OS X |
Description
The Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) installer software license agreement (the regular install, not the server) states:
"... you are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license: [...] (iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software."
Which would seem to explicitly permit running Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) non-server version as a guest under VirtualBox provided the VirtualBox host is also running Mac OS X.
Attempts to boot the 10.7 installer under VirtualBox 4.1.0 running on a Mac OS X system that is supported by Lion results in a
"This version of Mac OS X is not supported on this platform!"
message early in the boot process inside the virtual machine. See http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/18/make-an-os-x-lion-boot-disc/ for instructions on how to make a Mac OS X Lion install disk or else acquire one of the Mac OS X Lion installation bootable flash drives from AppleCare.
