Hello, Currently I am trying to run Mac OSX Mavericks on a Windows 8.1 machine via Hyper-V. There are no guides online, there is no information to be found and I suspect it's due to the fact that it either doesn't work at all or it is just very hard to make OSX start up in Hyper-V.
The new Windows 8.1 hyper-v supports BIOS boot as well as UEFI boot. I thus created two virtual machines, one with BIOS and one with UEFI.
The BIOS version stops all DVDs and even prepared installations from a regular hard disk (I tried out MBR as well as GPT) at the prompt boot1:error or boot1:done or "bios disk read error at sector ..." I have not found any way to get past this and I tried quite a few things (DVDs like rBoot and iBoot as well as harddisk based installation media created with myHack)
The UEFI version simply says that it cannot find anything bootable on the drive, the exact message is: "Boot Failed. EFI SCSI Device." There are no UEFI settings or anything I can select there. This messages occurs with the DVDs and with the harddisk based installation media.
There are three things I'd like help with:
General ideas and tips - I know that according to all sources it can't be done, I'm just asking for a community brainstorming here. Perhaps you have an idea that I did not think about.
Creating a Clover installation medium on a regular harddisk. Hyper-V does not allow for adding USB devices to a VM, so instead of creating the Clover installation on a USB drive I select a regular harddisk where I put the Mavericks install files onto (with the USB installer that comes with the Install Mac OS X Mavericks.app). Clover completes without errors but it fails to create the partition 'EFI' and thus the disk is not bootable. With a USB drive Clover creates the partition just fine, sadly I cannot use USB devices in Hyper-V.
Are there other ways of installing OSX besides Clover, myHack and DVDs that I could try out?
Thank you! One more thing: When I say 'regular harddisk' I say this to make it easier to understand; I am actually using vhdx files that I attach in the Disk management of Windows. I prepare the vhdx file with VMware Workstation (raw disk) and then switch the file over to Hyper-V. This works fairly well, I have used it before for other operating systems. But it doesn't actually make any difference whether I use a real harddisk or a vhdx file, and thus I just used the term 'regular harddisk.'
My next steps:
Wait for your help and:
Create a Clover USB boot device and then with dd copy it over to the regular harddisk and see if it boots.
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