First shot at describing the process of building a vanilla OS X box with veewee using only the OS X installer application.

OS X build plan for veewee

Notes using minstallconfig.xml

- Create base OS X vmx w/ veewee:
  * HD must be IDE, not SCSI
	* Do not define a specific boot device, VM will boot from DMG attached to CD-ROM later in process

- Obtain "Install OS X Mountain Lion.app"/"Install Mac OS X Lion.app"

- Mount InstallESD.dmg w/ shadow file from "Install Mac OS X Lion.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg"
  * hdiutil attach "[...]/Install Mac OS X Lion.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg" -owners on -shadow /tmp/InstallESD.shadow

- Mount /Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/BaseSystem.dmg w/ shadow file
  * hdiutil attach "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/BaseSystem.dmg" -owners on -shadow /tmp/BaseSystem.shadow

- Add line to /Volumes/Mac OS X Base System/etc/rc.common to erase VMDK and create empty "Macintosh HD" volume
  * echo "diskutil eraseVolume JHFS+ "Macintosh HD" disk0" >> "/Volumes/Mac OS X Base System/etc/rc.common"
 	- Testing has shown that the VMDK is always at /dev/disk0 but more logic to be sure would be prudent

- Create "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/Packages/Extras" folder

- Create "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/Packages/Extras/minstallconfig.xml" - this is a standard plist
  * EXAMPLE: http://bit.ly/10xgOkU

- TODO: Configure minstallconfig.xml to use an OSInstall.collection plist instead to install additional custom packages (first boot, create user, etc.)
  * The .collection file is a plist with one array containing strings representing absolute paths of packages to be installed

- TODO: When using a .collection file also copy referenced custom packages to /Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/Packages

- Detach BaseSystem.dmg

- Convert BaseSystem.dmg + shadow file to replacement BaseSystem.dmg:
  * hdiutil convert -format UDZO -o /SOMETEMP/BaseSystem.dmg "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/BaseSystem.dmg" -shadow /tmp/BaseSystem.shadow

- Replace /Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/BaseSystem.dmg with modified /SOMETEMP/BaseSystem.dmg

- Detach InstallESD.dmg

- Convert InstallESD.dmg + shadow file to new InstallESD_mod.dmg
  * hdiutil convert -format UDZO -o /SOMETEMP/InstallESD_mod.dmg "[...]/Install Mac OS X Lion.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg" -shadow /tmp/InstallESD.shadow

- Configure /SOMETEMP/InstallESD_mod.dmg as the attached CD-ROM image - do NOT set CD-ROM as boot device in VMX

- Boot VM

- OS X installer will automatically start

- After install completes the VM will reboot and start OS X from the VMDK; OS X and any custom packages will be installed

- $DOSTUFF based on any custom packages