What is the safest way to install MacOSX 10.7 into VirtualBox running under MacOSX 10.7?

I find that porting scientific code to MacBookPro with MacOSX 10.7.2 has proven very difficult.  I have VirtualBox 4.1.8 running very well on it and would like to install MacOSX 10.7.2 onto VirtualBox so I can test many workarounds w/o hosing up the MacBook.  Any advice on the best way to go about this?

Thanks for the link, but again, it requires you to buy MacOSX 10.7 Lion all over again; I just bought it and I'm trying to run it on the same machine,  so buying it a 2nd time seems unreasonable.   The Apple documentation I've found (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718) about restoring Lion  does not seem to offer any method to put it onto any media I can use for the VirtualBox, and I don't want wipe the current installation over & over as I try to get all the shared libraries to work.

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