

Update: VirtualBox 3.2 supports Mac OS X guests out-of-the-box, without the hacks described here. Virtualbox is a virtualization suite that works for Windows- installing Mac OS X on a virtual machine in Windows before doing it on your actual computer is great practice, and it gives you a chance to.įoreword: This was originally written in 2007 for VirtualBox 1.5.x Why I can't make 64-bit? If you need help deciding whether to make that leap of faith, then you can try installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on Virtualbox, instead. Hi, when I try to create a new OS X System, there are only 'Mac OS X (32-bit)' and 'Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (32 bit)'. Before you proceed with the download make sure that you have a significant amount of space for download or it may end up creating trash files which you will have to manually remove.

You can download the Mac OS X Snow leopard DMG file directly from the ISO river post absolutely free of cost. Mac Os 10.6 Iso DownloadAppreciate your help.Download Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 ISO and DMG direct file. So what does 'Still waiting for root device' really mean, and how can I debug this? I do have a 2011 machine that came with Snow Leopard that I could copy such things from. I saw some stuff in the forum about setting a serial number to a known valid one for the guest OS and other trickery to make the VM look like a machine that would run the guest OS natively, but I don't see how to do that with the GUI. I have tried changing the optical drive to different SATA ports. I have tried unchecking the Floppy and making sure the Optical is first. For the version, I tried both the 32 bit and the 64 bit Snow leopard selections. In setting up the VM, I mostly selected the defaults. If I can make this work I was planning on buying Snow Leopard Server just to not run afoul of the EULA, but I want to know that it will work before I spend the money. On trying to boot the installer, it just hangs with 'Still waiting for root device'. dmg ripped from a 10.6.7 installer DVD that came with my early 2011 MBP. cdr ripped from a retail boxed 10.6.3 DVD, and the other is a. I have tried two different install disk images, both made with Disk Utility on a machine running Snow leopard natively.
