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Exploring Snow Leopard VM on Win7 32bit
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| #### Revision: 2012-06-06 | |
| ### Overview | |
| Don't be a leech. Swagger over to the Apple Store and pony up ~$30 for the | |
| retail Mac OS X Snow Leopard install DVD. Don't whine, just do it. | |
| There are a number of blog posts dealing with installing either Snow Leopard or | |
| Lion in VirtualBox. None of them worked for my Win7 Ultimate 32bit Dell Studio | |
| 15 system with a paltry 4GB. Yes, I've been holding out a new Ivy Bridge system | |
| to replace my long-in-the-tooth spelunking laptop. | |
| What eventually worked was the basic install recipe from this post | |
| http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/snow-leopard-virtualbox.html | |
| combined with the following configuration tweaks. The pixie dust seems to have | |
| been to select the right kernel boot flags (aka cheat codes?) when switching from | |
| using iBoot to trying to boot the Snow Leopard install DVD. My system constantly | |
| hung trying to find the "root" (root FS or PCI root?) before the incantation | |
| worked its magic. | |
| ### VM Configuration | |
| * Ensure system BIOS enables hardware virtualization support | |
| * VirtualBox 4.1.16 | |
| * New 30GB VDI HDD, dynamically allocated | |
| * New VM named `OSX`: Operating System=Mac OS X, Version=Mac OS X Server | |
| * System: Base Memory=1536MB, Chipset=IC9, Enable IO APIC, CD/DVD 1st in Boot Order, 1 CPU | |
| Enable PAE/NX, Enable VT-x/AMD V and Nested Paging Hardware Virtualization Acceleration | |
| Enable absolute pointing device | |
| * Video: Memory=128MB, Enable 3D Acceleration | |
| * Storage: IDE Controller=ICH6, CD/DVD Drive=IDE Secondary Master | |
| SATA Controller=AHCI 1 Port with VDI attached | |
| * Network: no change to NAT'd default | |
| ### Install | |
| * Buy the retail Snow Leopard install DVD for $29.99 from the Apple Store | |
| * Download iBoot 3.3.0 and MultiBeast 3.10.1 from http://www.tonymacx86.com/ | |
| * Attach the iBoot ISO to the VM's CD/DVD drive | |
| * Start the VM | |
| * Detach iBoot and attach Snow Leopard DVD (or ISO built from ImgBurn) | |
| * Press F5, and start typing to enter boot flags `PCIRootUID=0 -v -x`. | |
| * Press Enter and install Snow Leopard | |
| * Boot fresh with iBoot, press F5, and press Enter to boot Snow Leopard | |
| * Download MultiBeast and install EasyBeast + SystemUtilities | |
| * Increase the VM screen size | |
| * Copy `/Extra/org.Chameleon.boot.plist` to the Desktop | |
| * Edit copy to add | |
| <key>Graphics Mode</key> | |
| <string>1280x1024x32</string> | |
| * Move the copy from Destop to Extra, overwriting the original | |
| * The blog post suggested make a VM snapshot, but I chose to `vboxmanage clonehd <orig.vdi> <clone.vdi>` and not | |
| deal with VB's disk differencing awesomeness | |
| ### Install Snow Leopard Updates | |
| * Install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 -> http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399 | |
| * Install Nawcom 10.6.8 legacy kernel; search for it. | |
| * Reboot and start using your new Snow Leopard VM for good | |
| * Can add additional boot options to `/Extra/org.Chameleon.boot.plist` using | |
| <key>Kernel Flags</key> | |
| <string>...</string> |
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Apple -> About this Macxcode_3.2.6_and_ios_sdk_4.3.dmgcrashes during either iOS or non-iOS install. I likely need to give it a bigger virtual HDD to work with