For Acceleration, check “Enable VT-x/AMD-V” (This is very important, if your computer does not support this option, you will not be able to install successfully or even reach the leopard installation screen).For Processor, choose 1 (or more – if it doesn’t work, choose 1).Probably you want to choose 1gb or more for the Base Memory.Choose BSD/FreeBSD for Operating System/Version for versions earlier than 3.2. One new feature of Virtualbox is support for Mac OS X. But in case it doesn’t install leopard using virtualbox 3.1.4 and then install virtualbox 3.2 over it. Didn’t try for 3.2 beta though, just upgraded my virtualbox and it still works, I believed it should be the same for 3.2. I tried installing leopard for virtualbox 3.1.2, 3.1.4, 3.1.8. Installing leopard is generally no problem if you set the virtualbox settings correctly. (link taken from taranfx)īasically how we go about installing snow leopard on virtualbox is to first install leopard on a “harddisk”(virtualbox harddisk) and then boot up leopard and install snow leopard on another virtualbox harddisk. Download and attach this Addon Util image.(If it’s in DMG format, use UtraISO or PowerISO to convert it to ISO) Snow Leopard Retail CD converted to ISO format so that you can mount the image on virtual box.(I tested and both iAtkos 7 and iDeneb v1.3 seems to work, didn’t test the rest) Leopard distro (iAtkos 7, iDeneb v1.3 10.5.5, etc.Virtualbox v3.2 Beta 3 (v3.2 Beta 1 doesn’t work properly on win7 64bit).Windows XP 32bit system (tried on Win7 圆4).

Most of it is taken from together with some of my experience. I decided to write an article on installing snow leopard on VM since I spent quite a big of time trial and error.

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