Setting up the Virtual Machine (Part II)
Follow the steps below to fine tune the VM:
- Select your Mac OS VM and click "Settings" in VirtalBox's menu toolbar.
- Remove "Floppy" from the boot order and disable "Enable EFI".
I would be good for you to double-check your settings against the following screens.
- Specify the number of CPU allocated for the VM and enable "Enable PAE/NX".
I know there are cases where people cannot kick off the installation by suing 2 CPUs. So, try to use 1 CPU will you cannot boot up your VM later.
- Make sure "Enable VT-x/AMD-V" and "Enable Nested Paging" are checked.
- Specify 128MB as the video memory (I think you can use less if wanted).
Check "Enable 3D Acceleration".
Don't expect the "Enable 2D Video Acceleration" to work unless have the Mac OS X guest addition released in the future.
- For the "Storage" settings, make sure your have selected "ICH6" as the IDE Controller Type.
(There shouldn't be any floppy controller.)
- Mount your "OSx86 Leopard Distribution" DVD (or other required ISO image file) to the IDE secondary master (i.e. the default DVD-drive)
- For the "Network" settings, the default values should work fine.
Save your settings. We are almost done.
In the next part, we will patch the configuration xml file for the VM.
to be continued...