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I have a MacBook Pro and I am looking for a way to run another OS X Yosemite inside it.

I tried Virtual Box, and installed OS X, but it doesn't support guest additions for OS X guests. It keeps the display at 1024x768 and the mouse moves very slowly.

What is the best way to run OS X inside another OS X? Note that I have a legal OS X and I am not talking about Hackintosh!

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  • Just a side note: to enable higher resolutions enter VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" VBoxInternal2/EfiGopMode N where N can be one of 0,1,2,3,4,5 referring to the 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1920x1200
    – klanomath
    Mar 27, 2015 at 15:45

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Both Parallels Desktop 10 and VMWare fusion support virtualising Yosemite. Both are better than Virtual Box.

In Parallels you can create a virtual machine with Yosemite immediately by using the recovery partition.

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  • Parallels Desktop works fine.
    – Omid Kamangar
    Mar 27, 2015 at 12:27
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I have VMware Fusion running on 10.10 Yosemite. It has no problems at all running OS X back to 10.5.

You do, however, need lots of memory. Virtual machines need the guest OS recommended memory in addition to the host OS recommended memory. Since Yosemite likes 4GB bare minimum, you won't be happy running two of them on a 4GB machine.

I have 24GB of memory, and right now I have 6 different versions of Mac OS running side-by-side. It does slow down noticeably when I try to update or reboot multiple guest operating systems, but that's more a function of them all being on the same external disk drive than anything else.

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VMware Fusion 7 supports OS X Yosemite and OS X Yosemite Server - https://www.vmware.com/au/support/fusion/faq/requirements#supported_guest

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