Use them both to experience enhanced security, more reliable connections, and access to exclusive. If improvements are public but elsewhere, maybe someone can find the changeset(s) or other ticket(s) – thanks. VNC Viewer and VNC Server are designed to work best together. I assume that relevant improvements to VirtualBox are currently: Mountain Lion guest-related was similarly closed, presumably by a moderator. Lion guest-related remains closed, not open to discussion. Unless I'm missing something, none of the 4.x change logs mention anything like this. with fewer of the OSx86-oriented additions that I found necessary with some previous releases of VirtualBox.

For me, Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.2 (build 12C60) runs as a guest with VirtualBox 4.2.4 r81684 on a 12C60 host, MacBookPro5,2 with 8 GB memory: See 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.Īn unexpected and pleasant surprise. Message early in the boot process inside the virtual machine.

'This version of Mac OS X is not supported on this platform!' 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.Īttempts 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 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.' The Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) installer software license agreement (the regular install, not the server) states:

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