Once it’s selected, press the down arrow key which will bring more options. In the empireEFI bootloader, go to Mac disk by pressing the right arrow key. Try Boot verbose or Boot Ignore Caches options. Most people faced this issue and that was the solution. Convert the DVD with some cloning software to ISO. This is due to accessing data from a Mac retail DVD. This might fix the boot loader issue and improve performance.Ī) Mac DVD reading error – EBIOS read error: Error 0×0c Block 0×1ed48a Sectors 0
If this doesn’t work, restore the virtual machine to the latest snapshot and install the Chameleon bootloader from a separate installation file in the Post Installation folder. Press the Install button to continue.Īfter successful installation, remove empireEFI ISO and start the virtual machine, it should boot from the hard disk as shown below. I recommend not deselecting anything selected by default. Read each package description and select it if you need it for your computer hardware. Take a snapshot before doing anything at this point.
Go to Empire EFI CD which is already mounted and open the Post Installation folder. This method will install the Chameleon bootloader and some other drivers. To avoid attaching empireEFI ISO every time to boot OS X virtual machine, we can install bootloader permanently on Mac hard disk.
But still, these methods are applicable for the latest version including Windows 10 and VirtualBox 6 x. You may find the older version of products on the screenshots. Note: This post was originally published in the year 2010.
But still, we can do some workarounds to install Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware with different bootloaders on Windows computers. So, technically you can virtualize macOS on Apple devices only. From version 3.2, the Oracle VirtualBox officially supports Mac OS X as the guest virtual machine on Apple hardware. This method is completely for testing and learning purposes. Please buy the original Mac OS and Apple hardware.