Hackintosh help

[Saga]

Been following this guide here: http://lifehacker.com/5583650/run-ma...box-on-windows


I downloaded the iso it told me to, downloaded Virtual Box, got all the settings set up fine, but run into a problem right here:

Now click on the Storage button on the left. From there click on Empty under the OSX.vdi, then click the folder with the green arrow on the right (next to "CD/DVD Device").

His screen looks like this:

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...age014_5_.jpeg


While mine looks like this:

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http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/2590/helpkb.png

I don't know what he's doing that I'm not doing to not get that folder with the green arrow available. It just has a check box with "Live CD/DVD." I've tried adding new CD/DVD drives to the controller (empty ones). What was weird initially was my OSX.vdi file was under 'SATA Controller,' which is no longer in that picture because I moved the .vdi to the IDE controller like in the tutorial.

So it initially looked like this:

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http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/296/help2fc.png

And I still had the same problem with not having the folder with a green arrow available to me.

Any help would be appreciated. I'd like to avoid using DVDs if I can and just run it off Virtual Box or VMWare, both of which I have. This is unrelated to what I'm trying to do, but is this tutorial any good?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...id=B4AIA5sNQcA

[Isiolia]

The tutorial just has an older version of VirtualBox. Click the little CD icon to the right of the CD/DVD Drive dropdown and click Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file.

[Saga]

Oh alright, thanks. Is it any issue that I moved the OSX.vdi image to under the IDE controller from the SATA Controller or should everything still work fine?

[Isiolia]

I don't know, I haven't built a Hackintosh VM...however, I don't think any actual Intel Mac hardware uses IDE drives, and usually the closer you can get to actual Mac hardware the happier things are with those.

[rezn0r]

all newer Macs that i've had to open up used SATA drives, not IDE, although I believe they used to use IDE. since Apple limits the hardware their newer OS releases can run on, as Isolia said your best bet is to use SATA, even though I wouldn't be surprised if newer releases still supported IDE. I don't have any experience running OS X in a VM (been meaning to just to do it) but I do have Snow Leopard 10.6.7 running on a Dell Inspiron after many many attempts/installations/tweaks. If I upgrade to 10.6.8 it dies, just to show you how picky it can be on non-Apple hardware. when I have time my next goal is to get Lion working.

[Isiolia]

all newer Macs that i've had to open up used SATA drives, not IDE, although I believe they used to use IDE.

Macs went from using all SCSI, to mixing in IDE devices on lower end machines (like the Performas), to full IDE on the G3s/G4s, and then swapping over to SATA on the G5s and onward.