By default, Mac OS X Yosemite Installer will automatically install necessary Hackintosh-specific kexts and drivers for your computer when you boot your Mac OS X installation for the first time. The ICH9 problem is still not fixed but with PIIX3 it's possible to announce more than 3.5G to the guest.' So there's some hope to get this fixed somewhat soon … IOOI Posts: 73 Joined: 14. However, with Mac OS X Yosemite Installer, you can just set up everything from a Windows computer. It tackles this bug just in part: is closed now but is still open and says: 'Partly fixed in VBox 4.3.20. VirtualBox 4.3.20 was released some hours ago. Unfortunately EFI was implemented in VirtualBox just to support the Mac guests, so there is no way at this moment to test it with another type of client.Īs for the VMDK format, I got the information from these forums here, mainly by Don (mpack) who has a really deep understanding of the virtual disk formats.

Now, why the Mac reports two numbers for the memory is beyond my comprehensive capabilities. I vaguely remember that the VBox's EFI implementation only passes 3.5 GB to the client, but I could be way wrong. Which makes me believe that there is a discrepancy on the Mac guest as to where it's getting its memory information from. The OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 update improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, and is recommended for all users. And the VBox.log is quite happy to report that it has allocated 8 GB. The OS X Yosemite v10.10.5 Update is recommended for all OS X Yosemite users. On the other hand, 'About this Mac' and 'System Profiler' report 8 GB. As I said in the bug report, the 'Activity Monitor' and 'top' reveal only 3.5 GB allocated.

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