May 27, 2011 - If you don't own a Macbook and you need to test a software on Mac OSX, a good way is to install the Mac OSX as a virtual machine in your PC.
We have published several guides on installing Mac OS X in normal PC with desktop virtualization software. You can find out all guides related to.
Each guide is having several issues and drawbacks. Therefore I decided to publish another revamped complete guide on hackintosh 10.6.7 Snow Leopard on VirtualBox 4 with working sound. Before continue the installation steps, let me summarize important issues fixed in this guide. This works with original (vanilla kernel) or ISO file. No need to download any hacked OS X distributions.
Third party boot loaders are not required to load the original or ISO file. Shutdown and Restart of Virtual machine works without crashing. ‘About the Mac’ option works without crashing and properly reading processor and memory (Intel Core2duo is in my case). Can be updated to latest 10.6.7. USB keyboard and mouse issue fixed after 10.6.7 update.
USB storage (Flash disk or external hard disk) access crashing issue fixed. Sound is working inside Virtual machine, Bravoo. 5 Screen resolution sizes can be adjusted. Shared folders between Mac OS X guest and Windows host for data sharing What’s You Need? 1) – More information available on if you face any issues. 2) Hardware Virtualization Technology (VT) Enabled Computer in BIOS –. 3) Latest VirtualBox and Its extension pack, as of today VirtualBox 4.0.4 is the latest.
Read more here about 4) Bit patient to read this full guide and other several guides I point out. My Demonstration PC Intel Core2Duo 2.66GHz, 3GB RAM, Intel P35 chipset with Windows 7 32Bit Host OS. Since I don’t have other processor computers, I can’t guarantee this guide for all types of processors, but I’m sure this will work on most of the Intel processor computers, AMD users must be lucky with this method, but it’s possible too.
Step by Step Guide for Hackintosh 10.6.7 Snow Leopard on VirtualBox 4 1) Create a new virtual machine with Operating System type – Mac OS X and Version Mac OS X Server. 2) Configure RAM size (Minimum 1GB, Recommended 2GB) and Create new hard disk (20GB will be enough, but you can assign more).
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3) Go to the newly created virtual machine’s settings and adjust the System settings as shown below. The things you must check here,. Floppy drive removed. Chipset selected to ‘ICH9’ (New chipset supported from VirtualBox 4 versions). Enable IO APIC, Enable EFI (This is the built in Boot loader for Mac OS X) 4) You can go to Display and adjust the maximum settings. To be honest, I don’t know how this will improve the video performance inside Mac VM, just hoping. 5) Go to storage option and mount the ISO file or select the host DVD drive here.
If you want to install with Snow Leopard original retail DVD by inserting into host drive, select the Host drive option and make sure Passthrough is enabled as shown below. 6) Go to USB options and make sure ‘Enable USB Controller’ and ‘Enable USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller’ selected. Check the sound option and confirm ‘Windows DirectSound’ and ‘Intel HD Audio’ options are selected. Intel HD Audio is the new virtual audio controller added with VirtualBox 4 and later versions, this driver works inside Snow Leopard virtual machine.
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7) Check the installed VirtualBox extension pack on host computer. Extension pack should be installed to support USB2.0 in Snow Leopard VM, if not you will get crashing screen while trying to access USB storage. 8.) Now go to virtual machine’s folder ( C: Users User-Name VirtualBox VMs Virtual-Machine-Name) and open the.vbox file in word processing software like MS WordPad. 9) Enter the following string in the location mentioned in example file. Here is the example file of working Snow Leopard in VirtualBox 4. The above extra string helps in several ways to install Snow Leopard in VirtualBox 4. Original Vanilla kernel installation with original retail DVD.
VirtualBox built in EFI boot loader works here. So, you do not need any third party boot loaders. Shutdown and restart of VM works (no hanging screen). ‘About the Mac’ screen works inside snow leopard virtual machine. 10) Power on the virtual machine now. Installation must start normally without any issues. Follow more installation steps and how to create partition during the Complete the initial setups and configurations.
I’m sure you will land on working Snow Leopard desktop in VirtualBox 4. Some Post Installation Setups and Configurations on Snow Leopard 10.6.7 on VirtualBox 4 1) Network, USB Access inside virtual machine NAT and Bridged networking modes worked straightaway inside virtual machine.
USB storage access such as Flash disk and external hard disk worked fine without any issues. Important Note – You must install VirtualBox Extension Pack before access USB 2) Sound That’s a really great news for hackintosh users in Oracle VirtualBox. New VirtualBox 4 and latest versions’ new motherboard and sound chipset support sound in Snow Leopard. I can hear 90% clear and unbreakable sound from VM. Double check the main chipset type under System was set to ICH9 and Audio Controller set to Intel HD Audio as shown above. I’m not sure how this will work in AMD based computers.
3) Screen Resolution Sizes Since we do not have proper VirtualBox guest additions tools for Mac OS X, we have to use manual methods to modify screen resolution size to 5 options. Check the below guide and user comments to find out the correct working method for you. 4) Latest 10.6.7 Update It worked fine. Because of this is purely running from original vanilla kernel without any hacked versions, the update (software or manual) to 10.6.7 installed well. Just check and run the installation. Take a snapshot before run the update. 5) Shared Folders in Snow Leopard Virtual machine and Windows 7 host Though, VirtualBox shared folders can’t be used here without guest additions tools, we can use normal file sharing between Mac OS X and Windows by setting up network.
You can share large amount of data by this step. More information I hope this guide will be useful in running latest Hackintosh 10.6.7 Mac OS X Snow Leopard on VirtualBox 4 for testing and learning purposes. You can’t expect the all full features as running on physical Apple hardware, but still its useful for experiment purpose with your normal PC. For more useful installation methods, tips and tricks on Hackintosh on desktop virtualization software VMware and VirtualBox.
Feel free to drop some comments, success and failure installation attempts, I will be happy to help you. Unable to upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion denied through Apple store. I succeeded in the install described in this excellent post; and run successfully run Snow Leopard. My Motherboard is a 64bit capable version of MSI (MS-7346) but I am running Windows 7 32bit.
My VirtualBox version is 4.1.4r74291 so it should have the fix for to handle Lion I have an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU. I cannot set the Virtual machine via VirtualBox settings to anything other than 1 CPU. The Guest operating system fails to start. I am not able to run the Max OS update from the Apple store as it recognises the guest to have only one CPU. Any thoughts / Any Virtual Box extensions that can help me getting it working would be much appreciated? Thanks.
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