Mac Os X Mavericks For Virtualbox
If you’re a Mac user like me, who uses VirtualBox to run guest / virtual Operating Systems within OS X, you will most likely encounter errors with VirtualBox under Mavericks, specifically if you upgrade to OS 10.9 from a pre-existing OS X install where VirtualBox was already installed.
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These issues will include anything relating to “Kernel Extension” errors when launching the VirtualBox application or “Kernel Driver Not Installed” errors when launching a Virtual Machine.
- Again if you don’t know that way of installation. I will provide you below the separate of installing macOS X Yosemite on VMware & VirtualBox. One thing more installing macOS X Yosemite on VMware is better and easy than installing on VirtualBox. How to Install Mac OS X Yosemite on VMware on Windows; How to install Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 on.
- This question appears to be off-topic because it is about installing OS X in a VM on non-Apple hardware, which is unsupported and against the EULA. – slhck Jul 2 '14 at 8:48 4 @slhck Please tell me if I am wrong, I own a Mac, and I would like to run inside Mavericks a vm with Mavericks.
If this happens:
1. (Re)Download and (re)install the latest version of VirtualBox for OS X.
2. (Re)Download (re)install the respective Extension Pack.
3. In a shell (Terminal), cd /Library/Extensions and sudo rm -rf VBox*.kext
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4. Reboot
This should solve all of your issues. Step 3 above is important because it appears that those Kernel Extension files are for older versions of VirtualBox (pre-4.3) that are not cleaned up by a re-install of VirtualBox, and will cause issues with 4.3 (which is the latest version of VirtualBox at the time of this writing).
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While you’re at it, you may as well reinstall the Guest Additions in your respective VMs after you fix your VirtualBox install.