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LobsterJon
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I am trying to run OS X in Virtual Box on my Win 7 PC. I have an AMD FX8320 cpu. I have downloaded the .dmg for OS X but when the installer boots to boot to -v or something completely different. I have also heard that you have to trick the VBox into thinking you have a different cpu? All help is greatly appreciated.

 

AMD FX8320

GTX 960 G1 Gaming

MSI 990FXA GD80V2 

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I am trying to run OS X in Virtual Box on my Win 7 PC. I have an AMD FX8320 cpu. I have downloaded the .dmg for OS X but when the installer boots to boot to -v or something completely different. I have also heard that you have to trick the VBox into thinking you have a different cpu? All help is greatly appreciated.

 

AMD FX8320

GTX 960 G1 Gaming

MSI 990FXA GD80V2 

It's really complicated to get OS X installed on Virtualbox. All I can suggest is googling it.

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I am trying to run OS X in Virtual Box on my Win 7 PC. I have an AMD FX8320 cpu. I have downloaded the .dmg for OS X but when the installer boots to boot to -v or something completely different. I have also heard that you have to trick the VBox into thinking you have a different cpu? All help is greatly appreciated.

 

AMD FX8320

GTX 960 G1 Gaming

MSI 990FXA GD80V2 

 

It's very tricky to run OSX as a virtual machine in non Apple environments.  Try looking on Google for instructions to make an OSX VM, I did it some years ago using VMWare but after it was completed I felt it wasn't worth the effort.

 

It was faster and better to buy a Mac and run OSX natively with other OS as a VM.

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OSX on an AMD CPU isn't going to very stable. There are guides out there, but running in a virtual machine isn't going to be easy. If you do indeed want to do it, I recommend you use VMWare, it's significantly faster than Virtual Box.

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