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Installing an OS X Lion guest VM on a Yosemite host using VirtualBox

Getting the right file

  1. Obtain Install Mac OS X Lion.app.
  2. Open it using Show Package Contents.
  3. Go to Contents/SharedSupport/ and copy InstallESD.dmg somewhere where you can later locate it.

Setting up the VM (instructions work on late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina)

  1. Start VirtualBox.
  2. Create a new VM with a hard drive, guest OS Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (64-bit). Remember the name you give to the VM and do not start it after creation.
  3. Go to VM Settings, in System change chipset to PIIX3. In Display change video memory to 128MB. Click OK to save settings.
  4. Exit VirtualBox.