Installing Mavericks inside a virtual machine is fairly easy, but there are a few tricks to be aware of if you’re on a newer Mac. Credit to Natsuki’s post for sharing how to get the Mavericks installer to run on Apple computers with Intel Haswell CPU’s. Natsuki also notes a workaround for Apple computers with ECC RAM that requires the removal of a kernel module from the install image using iesd.
Download and install the latest VirtualBox for OS X hosts from here. We’ll be using VirtualBox so that anybody can follow these steps.
Information about Mac OS X Mavericks VMware Image.7z Filename: Mac OS X Mavericks VMware Image.7z (download) (copy file).
Download the Mavericks Installer App through the App Store.The Mavericks installer is provided for free by Apple for users to upgrade their computers to the latest version of OS X. We’ll be making use of the install image provided by this application to install Mavericks within a virtual machine.
While we’re waiting for the Mavericks Installer to download, lets get started on configuring our new Virtual Machine.
We need to check if your computer has an Intel Haswell processor. We’re going to use “About This Mac” to check.
If you see “Late 2013” or later, we’ll need to change the CPUID for our virtual machine so the installer image boots
We need to determine the name of the virtual machine, if you called it something other than “Mavericks” you’ll need to use the name you get from this command:VBoxManage list vms
Now that we have the name, we can specify the CPUID for that virtual machine
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Run VBoxManage modifyvm Mavericks --cpuidset 00000001 000306a9 00020800 80000201 178bfbff (Substitue Mavericks with what you got from VBoxManage list vms if you have something different)
In your terminal, run sudo gem install iesd
iesd is a Ruby applicaiton with extracts the installer disk image from the installer application to for use as a boot disk for your virtualization software.
Run iesd -i /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app -o Mavericks.dmg -t BaseSystem
Now you’ll have a Mavericks.dmg inside your user’s home folder.
Now we’ll attach this disk image to our virtual machine
Wait for the VM to boot. You’ll see plenty of black on white text scroll by with some errors and warnings, but they are acceptable.
The mouse will be very laggy on this screen because of the animation, so it may be easier to hit the “Enter” key than to navigate to the next button with the mouse.
Before continuing with the installer, we need to format the blank disk so that the installer detects it as an install location.
Now we’re all set to install Mavericks!
We’ve successfully installed Mavericks. Lets take a snapshot of the machine at this point in case we ever want to reset back to the big bang.
After the Machine restarts, we’re actually going to want to “Power off the machine” so that we can take a snapshot of the virtual disk and detach the install disk
From here, you’re good to go to start the virtual machine again and continue with the installer. I’d recommend taking another snapshot after you’ve set up the virtual machine so that you have another checkpoint to restore to.
A couple caveats here and also here (under “Mac OS X guests”). There aren’t any Virtualbox Guest Additions for OS X and the default resolution of the machine is 1024×768.
From the VirtualBox documentation, it is possible to set higher resolutions with VBoxManage setextradata 'VM name' VBoxInternal2/EfiGopMode N where N values of 0-5 correspond with 0=640×480, 1=800×600, 2=1024×768, 3=1280×1024, 4=1440×900, 5=1920×1200
Thanks for sticking through this how-to. I hope that this VM image will be useful in testing your OS X applications. Don’t forget to make liberal use of snapshots; and remember that you can create lightweight, snapshot-based clones of this VM if you need more than one.
You should join me in the comments for discussion of this how-to.
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