These instructions are for VirtualBox on Windows and Linux but they work well on OS X as well. abridged and modified for OS X guest OS:. Rip your original retail DVD of Snow Leopard in ISO format. In VirtualBox, create a new virtual machine. Name it as you want, but select 'Mac OS X' as the operating system, and 'Mac OS X Server' as the version. Assign a good amount of RAM to the VM.
Aug 8, 2017 - I now want to install OSX Snow Leopard OSX 10.6.8 as a guest within. Need to get a Snow Leopard installer and then convert it to an ISO file?
I chose 1024 MB. Create a new virtual hard disk, I chose 20 GB of dynamically expanding storage. Click finish. Open the settings for this new virtual machine, and in the Storage section, load the Snow Leopard ISO in the now empty CD/DVD device.
Now close VirtualBox (important!). Find the XML file that defines the virtual machine that you just created. This will be in /Library/VirtualBox/Machines//.xml. Search this file in a text edit for the ExtraDataItem tags. After the last instance of ExtraDataItem tags add the following two, new, ExtraDataItem tags:. Save and close the file.
Open VirtualBox and power on the virtual machine. The installation will start after some minutes. Choose your language. Now open Disk Utility under Utilities menu. Select the virtual disk and click Erase.
Close it and you can now install OSX. Before that, you can choose to customize the installation. It can be interesting to disable extra language translations or printer support (you save about 2 GB). This works for me.
The crucial bit is to add in the xml tag, right after tag Newer versions of VirtualBox store your VM at /Users//VirtualBox VMs//.vbox Tip: backup before making changes. – Oct 24 '13 at 4:39. I have a SL 10.6.8 VBox running as we speak. It works perfectly, if a bit slowly.
I'm about to abandon it for reasons totally unrelated to VirtualBox, but let's see if I can remember everything I did to get it running: 1) Like the other answer said, start with a rip of an original SL DVD. Mine was 10.6.0. 2) Also like the other answer, create the new VM, select Mac OS X Server (even if you're not using Server), assign = 1GB of RAM (I'd give it at least 2GB if you can spare it), and mount your ripped DVD. 3) Don't start the machine. 4) Open up the machine settings and make sure all of the following are set: System Motherboard Chipset: ICH9 System Motherboard Extended Features Enable IO APIC (checked) System Motherboard Extended Features Enable EFI (checked) System Processor Enable PAE/NX (checked) System Acceleration Enable VT-x/AMD-V (checked) System Acceleration Enable Nested Paging (checked) Storage Here make sure the hard disk is attached to a SATA Controller of type AHCI. Network Adapter 1 (or any other) Adapter Type: Intel PRO/1000 T Server (82543GC) Ports Serial Ports Enable Serial Port (uncheck this) Ports USB Enable USB Controller (checked) Ports USB Enable USB 2.0 (checked) 5) Start the machine and you should see the verbose boot mode (no gray Apple screen).
6) Proceed with OS X install. This is exactly what I did and have running now. Updated 10.6.0 to 10.6.8 using standard Software Update.
No patches, kexts or other hacks required. My System: iMac 21.5' Late 2009 (3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, with 16GB RAM) VirtualBox version: 4.1.12 r77245 with extensions installed. I tried updating VirtualBox to 4.1.14, but that broke this VM somehow. Never quite figured out why, but that kept me from updating. Haven't tried 4.1.16 yet. If you can't it to install on the current version with these settings, maybe this is why?
Hope that helps! I have an old macbook(white 13'). I could not update to Mavericks via AppStore because of my hardware(would not allow me to download). Currently on 10.6.8 I installed latest version of virtualbox(4.3.6). I found 10.8.5 installesd.iso on web(don't recall where). Pretty much all default settings(40GB static HD in.vdi format, 2GB RAM, 128MB video memory).
In the settings, the default controller is SATA, which worked for me. I added the installesd.iso to the virtual DVD drive and started the machine. Machine starts and you will see verbage for a couple of minutes, then you will get to the options screen of the install disk. Select 'disk utility'. In 'disk utility' select the virtual HDD you have for the machine(the one at the very top of the list).
Select 'partition'- 1 partition- mac os extended(journaled) and click 'partition' to partition the disk. Exit disk utility, then select re-install osx. Select your virtual HDD and install. Took fooooorrrrrrrreeeevvvvvveerrrrrrrrr! Said install of 20 min. Was more like 45 min. If screen goes white during install, it is just idle screen.
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Click back in machine window and it should show you current install status. Create acount as you would typically for mac and start using your mac. I can now upgrade my VM to Mavericks(currently downloading) on the bare metal that i could not upgrade.