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 another 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 because sometimes it boots successfully, sometimes it doesn't.
Yesterday I've published a post on how to install Mac OS X – Snow Leopard - in Virtualbox 4.2 using external boot loaders. I mentioned a few troubleshooting steps which may be helpful as well.Installing Mac OS X on Virtualbox 4.2 EFI Method
I hope these methods will be helpful to install the original Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard on Oracle VirtualBox with your Windows 10 or 8.1 computer. If this bootloader and method didn’t work on Intel processor then try this method with different iboot loader. Select and press Enter.Ĭ) Change boot loader for old type of processors: Select legacyempire_efi1085.iso, which is inside the same folder. Once it’s selected, press the down arrow key which will bring more options. In empireEFI bootloader, go to Mac disk by pressing the right arrow key. Try Boot verbose or Boot Ignore Caches options. Most people faced this issue and that was the solution. Convert the DVD with some cloning software to ISO.
This is due to accessing data from a Mac retail DVD. This might fix the boot loader issue and improve performance.Ī) Mac DVD reading error – EBIOS read error: Error 0×0c Block 0×1ed48a Sectors 0 If this doesn’t work, restore the virtual machine to the latest snapshot and install the Chameleon bootloader from separate installation file in Post Installation folder. Press the Install button to continue.Īfter successful installation, remove empireEFI ISO and start the virtual machine, it should boot from the hard disk as shown below. I recommend to not deselecting anything selected by default. Read each package description and select it if you need for your computer hardware. Take a snapshot before doing anything at this point. Go to Empire EFI CD which already mounted and open the Post Installation folder. In this method will install Chameleon bootloader and some other drivers. To avoid attaching empireEFI ISO every time to boot OS X virtual machine, we can install bootloader permanently on Mac hard disk.
If you are a developer who wants to test several older versions of macOS, then you can try these methods. But there will not be many valid reasons to try an older version of Mac OS 10.6 when we have macOS 11.0 Big Sur now. But still, these methods are applicable for latest version including Windows 10 and VirtualBox 6.x. You may find the older version of products on the screenshots. Note: This post was originally published in the year 2010. But still, we can do some workarounds to install Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware with different bootloaders on Windows computers. So, technically you can virtualize macOS on Apple devices only. From version 3.2, the Oracle VirtualBox officially supports Mac OS X as the guest virtual machine on Apple hardware. This method is completely for testing and learning purpose. Please buy the original Mac OS and Apple hardware.