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How to Install Snow Leopard on Virtual. Box Last time when I wrote the How to Install  Snow Leopard on VMWare guide, I had users who were seeking Virtualbox version, and I had it promised. After 2 months of experiments, fighting in the dark, and with help from black Trinitron, the work is done and I think its time to reveal it. Who doesn’t love Open Source?

Building a hackintosh—that is, installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware—used to require extremely restricted hardware choices and quite a bit of know-how.

And when a Open source product is better than a paid application, we adore it. So is the case with Virtualbox. Virtualbox 3. 1 is an amazing platform for Virtualization, It’s not only free, but also much faster than VMware in Disk I/O, Network I/O, RAM optimization, CPU Usage,  Hypervisor level operations. Hats off to Sun–Oracle. Note: This is a Retail installation guide, hence little more tricky. If you don’t mind an osx. Install Mac OS X Hackintosh in Virtual.

Box . We recommend you buy Original, don’t pirate! A OSx. 86 Leopard Distro – Any OS X 1. Deneb, i. Atkos, etc. Alternatively, You can install Snow Leopard directly via an OSx. Distro like Snow. OSX (but that won’t be upgradeable, unless you use Snow. OSX v. 3. 6 which is already 1.

But the upcoming 1. So let’s go the usual way (Leopard then Snow Leopard Retail), though it’s upto you to choose. Let’s Get started: Phase I: Install Leopard on Virtualbox. Step 1. Create a new Virtual Machine with name “Leopard”: System Type: BSD, Free. BSDCreate Disk (1. GB will suffice) with name “Leofx”System > Motherboard > Enable IO APIC(optional) Processor 2 or 4 (Dual Core, Quad core)Acceleration > Enable VT- x/AMD- VStorage > IDE Controller – ICH6.

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Attach New CD drive > select image (OSx. Leopard)Hit Ok. Step 2. Open Virtual machine xml. Windows 7: C: \Users\fx< Your User> \.

Virtual. Box\Machines\Snow\Snow. Windows XP: C: \Documents and Settings\fx< Your. User> \. Virtual. Box\Machines\Snow\Snow.

Add string to the section < Extra. Data> for the XML: < Extra. Data. Item name=. Switch on Virtual Machine and install Leopard distro as- usual. Get in touch @geeknizer on Twitter.

For installing Snow Leopard, proceed to Phase IIPhase II. Installing Snow Leopard. Step 1. Close Virtual.

Box and patch it with files from here (3. Update: I heard Virtualbox 3. Beta works out of the box, without patching. I haven’t tried that though. Step 2. Attach the following Three disks to the virtual machine under “Storage” tab: Attach A new Disk (1. GB minimum) with name “Snow”. DVD drive, if you plan to use Snow Leopard Retail disk OR The Retail image.

Boot Leopard and Launch Disk Utility (Applications > Utilties ) and Format the new “Snow” with “Mac OS Journaled”Step 4. From the addon image “Mac. Utils”, Run “un. Hide. It” and then browse to /System/Installation/Packages( inside Retail disc) and run OSInstall.

Step 5. Select “Snow” disk and customize install to remove unnecessary packages (languages, printers) and Install. Installation should finish without any problems. Step 6. Install Chameleon from the “Mac. Utils” on to “Snow” drive. Let’s setup some drivers: Remove all stuff from /Extra/Extensions. Copy “Mac Utils”/Mac/Extra/Extensions to Extra/Extensions.

Copy “Mac Utils”/Mac/System/Library/Extensions to System/Library/Extensions. Crack Dat Pat Score 18. Navigate to System/Library/Extensions and delete “Apple.

Intel. CPUPower. Management. Step 8. Fix permissions by using Terminal (from Applications > Utilities): su. Volumes/Snow/System/Library.

R root: wheel Extensions/. Volumes/Snow/Extra. R root: wheel Extensions/. Hold down your patience we are almost done. Now, Shutdown Leopard and move on to Final Phase. Phase III: Creating Snow Leopard machine.

Step 1. Alright, Let’s create a new Virtual Machine, name it “Snowfx” or whatever you wish to. Create it exactly as we did in Phase I : Step 1. Only additional step is t configure Networking: Network > Adapter 1 > Attached to “Bridged Adapter”Advanced > Adapter Type > Select “Intel PRO/1. MT server”And add the following to Snow Machine XML: < Extra.

Data. Item name=. Run the Virtual Machine and you will land into desktop with everything (including internet) working. Note: If your mouse doesn’t work use this Kext.

For me it worked as- is. Go ahead and update to 1.

And when the upcoming 1. There you are, running the latest Snow Leopard, sweet! Enjoy the speed and cost benefits Virtual. Box has to offer, Praise the Sun and love Open Source.