Install Windows 7 with boot camp on mac (Part 2)

Small resume from Part 1:

• I am the (un)happy owner of a late 2008 Macbook Pro
• My super Drive is DEAD
• I have Mac OS X Lion installed on my mac
• For whatever (foolish) reason I want to install Windows 7 on a Bootcamp partition
• I used Bootcamp 4.0.1

In the guide below i will explain how i managed to (finally) install Windows 7 on my bootcamp partition. But before we go further, some important warning. This whole procedure is at best dangerous, and is not for the faint hearted. It can possibly screw up your disk, follow it at your own risk. I strongly advise that you read this guide completely before starting this whole procedure by yourself. Now that you've been warned, let's get started.

VirtualBox: Creating new VM by duplicating existing one

The other day i tried to create a new VM by duplicating an existing one. Everything worked perfectly ... except all network interface were disable. And it was impossible to mount up those network interfaces.

If you duplicated a new VM from an existing one, you have to do a couple of things. First MAC addresses should be changed in new VM.

Then once the VM is created, disabled all network interface and boot it up. Once the machine is started, there's a couple of files to update for the hostname. I'm using a Debian squeeze, so path may change in other distributions:

/etc/hosts 

/etc/hostname

Then you need to need to edit  /etc/udev/rules.d/.  What happens is it maps the "new" mac address to a new interface. You just need to remove the old one and rename the new one (thanks to the solution from this forum: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=7749)