I also followed the guide at http://web.archive.org/web/20181103074214/http://danielphil.github.io/windows/virtualbox/osx/2015/08/25/virtualbox-boot-camp.html
I will add what challenges I had following that guide, but I was able to run my BOOTCAMP partition using VirtualBox, which is free, so I'm happy.
First, you should have installed:
- Windows 10 x64 using the OS X Boot Camp assistant
- VirtualBox 5.0.26 r108824
I also downloaded:
- VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.26.iso (I don't think this is necessary, but I did it just to be safe)
As far as Disabling SIP or System Integrity Protection on El Capitan (OS X 10.11), I skipped that part. It was not necessary in my case.
As far as setting drive permissions:
- I ran
diskutil list to get a list of drives on my system, taking note of the drive number of the drive named EFI and the other one named BOOTCAMP, which in my case, the EFI drive was 1 and the BOOTCAMP drive was 4.
I then ran the instructions to unmount my Bootcamp drive and set permissions so that VirtualBox could access the drive. According to danielphil, this needs to be performed each time one reboots.
diskutil unmount /Volumes/BOOTCAMP
sudo chmod 777 /dev/disk0s1 <--- This is the drive no. of the EFI disk
sudo chmod 777 /dev/disk0s4 <--- This is the drive no. of the BOOTCAMP disk
As far as creating the VirtualBox image, the instructions are:
Run the following commands to create a VirtualBox disk image wrapper for >your HD. Substitute the 1,4 with the numbers of your EFI and BOOTCAMP >partitions as appropriate and put your OS X username in for >your_username_here.
Make sure you are in the directory where you want to store the VirtualBox image, or you will have to move it later.
sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -rawdisk /dev/disk0 -filename win10raw.vmdk -partitions 1,4
sudo chown your_username_here *.vmdk
As far as creating the VM, the guide was not so clear. Before I followed the instructions from the screenshots, I created a new virtual machine in VirtualBox, checking "Do not add a virtual hard disk".
Once created, I selected it and clicked on "Settings". At this point, I followed the screenshots in the guide. The only difference was that:
- I did NOT check "Enable EFI (special OS only)"
- I did NOT have the option to check "Enable VT-x/AMD-V"
- I used the recommended base memory of 2048 MB, as I only have 8GB of memory
- In the "Storage" tab under "Storage Tree", I had to:
- click the "adds optical drive" icon under Controller:SATA to add the "VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.26.iso" file I downloaded.
- remove the "empty" image under Controller:SATA
- Select the "Add IDE Controller" icon at the bottom
- click the "adds hard disk" icon under Controller:IDE to add the vmdk file created
Best Answer
If your host system is OS X, you can follow the instructions on: http://ntk.me/2012/09/07/os-x-on-os-x/
Requirement:
- Install OS X.app purchased in Mac App Store
- iesd
VirtualBox Settings:
- Operating System Version: Mac OS X (64 bit)
- Base Memory: 2048 MB (larger is better)
- Enable EFI
In the lastest VirtualBox, all the default settings work well. Some people encountered black screen upon booting the virtual machine. They reported that changing the default chipset ICH9 to PIIX3 fixes this issue.
Prepare Install Disk
iESD requires ruby-1.9.2 or later.
Yosemite & Mavericks: The the new
InstallESD.dmgis not bootable. Therefore, we need to create a bootable install disk with BaseSystem.dmg.All Macs using Intel Haswell CPU (Macs after 2013) need to fake their CPU as Ivy Bridge in order to boot the virtual machine. Thank @danmccombs for this tip.
On Mac Pro Early 2009 and other Macs that have ECC memory,
AppleTyMCEDriver.kextwill cause a kernel panic during the boot. Thus we need to remove it.Mountain Lion & Lion: The lastest VirtualBox does not require modifying InstallESD.dmg any more. However, if your virtual machine was freezed during the boot process due to
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext, you need to installNullCPUPowerManagement.kext.The install process is same as normal OS X install on Mac