We will fix that later.ģ) First use After the first reboot, if you don’t do nothing, you will notice that the virtual machine will not boot again because of the disabled EFI. Chances are that the installer will not be able to reboot, so go to “Machine” and reboot it yourself.
() Hopefully the installation will succeed and you will be asked to Reboot. Depending on the installation disks you are using, I suggest to “Personalize”, and remove Printer suport, Additional fonts and Remove all translations (except English and/or your local language if not English). () You will be back again in the screen where you chose the MacDisk for installation, and in the next screen, you will review the installation. Select it, choose you VirtualBox hardisk, give it a name and erase it. However, in the top bar, you will find “Utils” menu which has a Disk Utility function. As you will soon find, the list is empty.
Finally you will be asked to choose the Hard Disk where you want to install the OS. () In the next screens you will have to select the System language and accept the conditions. Press F5 to refresh iBoot (Mac OS X Installer DVD will appear below the DVD icon) and press Enter to boot. When iBoot boots up, unmount iBoot and mount the Snow Leopard DVD or ISO. Mount iBoot in the virtual CD drive of the virtual machine.
Since neither the Snow Leopard ISO or DVD are able to boot without the EFI enabled, you will have to use iBoot. com/ 2012/ 12/ 04/ install-mac-os-x -snow -leopard-in-v irtualbox -4-2-ef i-method/Ģ) Installation The first time you start a new virtual machine, VirtualBox will ask you for a bootable media. You can also set the video memory to 64MB and enable 3D accelerati acceleration. Then, in the virtual machine Settings, the only mandatory thing is to disable the “Enable EFI” option in the System entry. Set a minimum of 1024 MB of RAM to it (or more if you have enough RAM on your computer) and a minimum of 20 GB of Hard Disk.
You can use “Mac OS X (64 bits)” if you will want to boot the 64 bit kernel. Name it as you want and select type “Mac OS X” and version “Mac OS X”. It will ask for a name and Operating System type. You can find it at forum (), although you will have to be registered in the forum to download it.ġ) Create Virtual machine Open your VirtualBox installation and click on New. It is a big file, about 1.1GB » Legacy 10.6.8 kernel – the same as previous, if you are updating to 10.6.8 you will need a 10.6.8 kernel.
» Mac OS X 10.6.8 update combo v1.1 – if your retail DVD is not the latest version of Snow Leopard (10.6.8), download the combo file directly from Apple ( sa=t&rct=j&q=&esr sa=t&rct =j&q=&esrc=s&sour c=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=r ce=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCsQFjAA&ur ja&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http% l=http%3A%2F%2Fsuppor 3A%2F% t.%2Fkb%2FDL1399&ei %2Fkb%2FDL1399&ei=F_O8UOepEYaT =F_O8UOepEYaT hgfji4 hgfji4DIA DIA _2pxUg-Q5LDxvPLiwzQCVML9w). If you have an Intel i3, i5 or i7 CPU, download “iBoot Ivy Bridge 1.0.0″ or latest. For Core 2 Duo Intel processors you should download “iBoot 3.3.0″. If you have a Pentium 4 or another single core processor, I think you have to download “iBoot Legacy 2.7.2″. You can download it from here () (tonymacx86 forum – you have to register). » iBoot – for booting up Snow Leopard on the Virtual machine, since the retail DVD iso’s are not capable of booting themselves. There are some modifications out there by the Hazard team, but I have had so much trouble during installations that I suggest the original (or a copy) of the retail DVD’s. What do you need? » Mac OS X – I suggest to buy an original retail DVD of Snow Leopard, but for testing, you can google for Snow Leopard retail DVD torrent. ( (http :///4/install-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-in-virtualbox-4 -2-efi-method/efi/)
The only downside so far is that it seems you won’t be able to set screen resolutions outside of 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×10×900. With this method your Mac OS virtual machine will be more reliable, and you will be able to do basic things from the Operating System such as reboots, shutdowns and the simple “About my Mac”. In this post I will show anot her way of installing Snow Leopard in Virtualbox, but using the EFI method. Unfortunately that method causes a lot of kernel panics and is not reliable ecause ecau se sometimes it boots successfully, sometimes it does not.
Install Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) in Virtualbox 4.2 (EFI Method) Yester d day ay I’ve published a post on how to install Mac OS X – Snow Leopa ( ()rd ( () ow-leopard-on-virtualbox-4-2/) in Virtualbox ()4.2 ( /3/installing-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-on-virtualbox-4-2/)4.2 using external boot loaders (). Tech Ventura Curiosity about many things… Install Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) in Virtualbox 4.