At the time of this tutorial – These hardware are inexpensive and should be obtained before doing this Multi OS’s installation.
1 USB DVD Writer with blank DVD to install Windows 8.1, 2 x 2GB USB flash drives for Chameleon Boot/OS X Base System Mavericks (small), 1 8GB USB flash drive for Chameleon Boot/OS X Base System Mavericks (full), 1 500/1000GB USB external hard drive for experimenting.
Download all these software apps for Mac OS X: Google them if I don’t have the links here.
Chameleon Wizard: to create SMBios.plist and edit org.chameleon.Boot.plist.
DSDTSE: to edit DSDT.aml files.
Kext Wizard: to install kexts and generate cache to different partitions.
myHack 3.3.1 : very useful tool for installing Chameleon – the version is R2266, but it does work well when installing to the OS X partition when the new version doesn’t work. Run myFix to update new system cache- works extremely well.
Kext Helper B7: to install kexts and update cache only on current working partition.
Kext Utility: update system cache.
OSX86Tools: to create Device-Properties string.
EFI Studio: to extract Ethernet En0 built-in and Graphics card PCI addresses.
ShowAllFiles: to show hidden files.
TextWrangler: text editor for editing kexts info.plist or any plist.
SuperDuper: to restore partition, back up working OS X partition to different drives.
Intel Power Gadget: to check if speed steps and turbo is working – this ensure sleeps/wakes.
SSDT generation: to generate your system SSDT.aml for full speed steps and turbo frequencies.
AICPMPatch: this is to patch the AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext for C-states and P-states to work and to remove NullCPUPowermanagement.kext from Extension folder without Kernel Panic.
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