How to install Mac OS X Lion to VirtualBox Step 1 - Install VirtualBox to your computer

So let's see how you can run latest Mac OS X Lion in virtual machine created in Oracle VM VirtualBox virtualization software. However, third party developers established project called OSx86, better known as Hackintosh, which allows users to run Mac OS X on non-Apple computers, or in virtualization software. The only difference between IBM-PC and Macintosh lies in a special EFI BIOS that identifies that is needed for Mac OS X. The current Mac computer family is based on Intel x86-64 platform and also Mac OS X is optimized for current Intel processors. Mac OS is a computer operating system developed by Apple.This is a operating system with beautiful interface, however, to own a the computer of Apple with this operating system, you need to use a lot of money, normally with the double price than that of common computers using Windows operating system.Fortunately, you can experience the Mac OS right on your computer by installing a Mac OS. VirtualBox will then add the disk on your external drive to your storage. Click on ‘Choose existing disk’ and browse to the location on your external drive. We want to use the disk we copied on to our external drive. VirtualBox then asks you if you want to create a new disk or add an existing one.

While in my guest OS I can see that the device is checked for use under the guest.

The USB drive does not show up in my host OS. I have the latest versions of VirtualBox and Guest Additions installed. My host OS is Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and my guest is Windows XP.

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