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You can then move through the list to determine which device would be the CD to boot from. (The Pci or Scsi numbers will be different.) If you choose the wrong device the first time, you can just restart the VM and choose another until you get it right.

If youre serious about Lion development, remember that virtual machines have their limitations, and you should probably just setup a dedicated partition to run the developer preview directly.

Anyway, if you want to try out Lion in a VM, heres what youll need.

With how cheap RAM is these days, I consider it an essential upgrade for power users.

If youre curious, you can read my review of 8GB RAM upgrade for a MacBook Pro where I detail the advantages of having a bunch of memory.

Who knows what crazy things could happen Would suck if something was wrong with the file system (or a virus installed) and it wiped all attached drives So, since I already use VMware Fusion for my OpenBSD web server, why not run Lion in a virtual machine.

Seems the system only checks for the existence of a single file, which can be created to appease the VM Gods.

Or just get outright hostile and tell you, Not here, Jack But, as it turns out, theres a way around that as well.

Not as easy as the first obstacle, but possible nonetheless.

If yours mounts as something different, then you will need to make any necessary changes to reflect that in the following steps.

Once that is finished, you can eject the BaseSystem image, it is no longer needed.

The system checks for the existence of a file in a specific location; you can imitate a server installation simply by creating that file.

Select Operating System: Apple Mac OS X and Version: Mac OS X Server 10.6 64-bit, then click Continue.

Click the Customize Settings button, then name and save the new virtual machine.

Choose CDs DVDs from Settings, then click Use disc image and select your installer image.

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Feel free to make any other changes to the settings with one caveat, you must use a SCSI hard disk; IDE drives are not recognized by the installer after it boots.

Also, if the hard disk is going to be used as a boot disk, it cannot be split into separate 2 GB files, so make sure to deselect that option when the HD is created.

Booting into that system seems to have set the NVRAM so that it will know how to boot a Lion volume.

Locate your VM within the Finder, right click and select Show Package Contents.

Copy the downloaded nvram file into the folder and rename it to match the name of your VM; mine is named, Mac OS X 10.7, so the nvram file would be renamed to Mac OS X 10.7.nvram Now you should be able to run the VM and it will boot up to being the installation process.

All the norms apply; GUID partition map, Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) format, etc.

With Mac OS X selected, you can look at the Device Path info on the right side of the screen to see the path to the default OS X boot device (this should be the hard disk).

You can then move through the list to determine which device would be the CD to boot from.

The Pci or Scsi numbers will be different.) If you choose the wrong device the first time, you can just restart the VM and choose another until you get it right.

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