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Snow Leopard on Virtual Box

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aaruni
aaruni Original post #1
May 29, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Hey Guys,
can you please suggest a way to install the client version of OSX 10.6.7 on virtual box 4.1.16? As the virtual machine boots into the installer screen, it asks my language and then it says "Mac OS X can not install into this system".
aaruni
aaruni #2
May 31, 2012 at 2:52 PM
any help here?

In case you are wondering, the host is MAC OS X 10.5 and I am doing this just for fun.
Desmond
Desmond #3
May 31, 2012 at 3:00 PM
You need to select host type as BSD I think.
aaruni
aaruni #4
May 31, 2012 at 3:03 PM
I don't think you can set the host type....
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XinR #5
Jun 4, 2012 at 8:48 AM
As faar as i heard, Mac OsX Works only on apple hardware. To run it on windows hardware you need something called Hackintosh. Google and see.
*www.hackintosh.com/
Xin R
aaruni
aaruni #6
Jun 4, 2012 at 10:13 AM
No, i have a macintosh host, (Leopard), and i want to try out Snow Leopard before actually moving to it. So, I got myself a disk image of snow leopard and am trying to install it on virtual hardware (Virtual Box/Parallels Desktop 6). I don't think hackintosh helps with that.
Desmond
Desmond #7
Jun 4, 2012 at 3:40 PM
I don't think you can set the host type....

Yes, you can. In the new VM Wizard, where you name your new VM, you can set the OS type in a dropdown list. You need to select the OS type as BSD (or FreeBSD, I don't remember) plus some other settings. That's how I did it.

(Installed it on an HP laptop)
aaruni
aaruni #8
Jun 5, 2012 at 7:15 AM
Yes, you can. In the new VM Wizard, where you name your new VM, you can set the OS type in a dropdown list. You need to select the OS type as BSD (or FreeBSD, I don't remember) plus some other settings. That's how I did it.

(Installed it on an HP laptop)

You mean the guest type then??? :-?
Desmond
Desmond #9
Jun 5, 2012 at 12:07 PM
You mean the guest type then??? :-?

Yes. I forgot, did it about two months back. Performance is a little down, but I think that's because of the GPU.