Suggestion C: hobby hacking with BaseSystem.dmg Attention please to agreements at Apple - Legal.

In the virtual machine: install Snow Leopard then (honouring Apple's license for Snow Leopard as far as possible in this situation) use that installation for nothing other than an immediate upgrade to Lion. Suggestion B: attempt upgrade from Snow Leopard within the virtual machine It may be something greater than 11A511 and if so, that greatness may be more suitable for use in virtual machines without the need to hack (see caution below). Suggestion A: await media from AppleĪwait Apple's provision of Lion on a USB thumb drive. This version of Mac OS X is not supported on this platform! dmg files are recognised.ĭepending on your approach, you might see: With the most recent VirtualBox it is unnecessary to convert disk images. Whilst end user forums are currently limited to Mac OS X Server, not updated for Lion, there is discussion of Lion (not always Lion Server) in that context.

10.7 (Build 11A511) guest in VirtualBox 4.1 greater

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