FYI, Snow Leopard 10.6.2 (x86-modified Hazard distro) under VirtualBox 3.2.8 (no OS X Guest Additions supported) seems to be an order of magnitude slower than VMware Snow Leopard 10.6.2 Retail with VMware Tools (torrent: 'Mac OS X 10.6.2 Virtual Machine for VMware'). Core 2 Quad, Raptor RAID 0, Windows 7 host, 2GB guest RAM. Well, Mac OS X doesn't use drivers, but the principle is the same. It needs to know how to properly use the hardware in your computer. This is where kext files come in. Kext is short for Kernel Extension. It basically is the OS X equivalent of drivers. After installing OS X you'll need to.
The following step by step guide will help you in installing Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard as a guest virtual machine in Windows 7. You'll need to have a system with an Intel processor which supports hardware virtualization, original OS X Snow Leopard retail disk, VMware Workstation 7 and Windows 7, Vista or XP installed as host operating system. If you meet all these requirements, you can then install OS X Snow Leopard in VMware under Windows and can enjoy the best of both worlds.
Note: We don't in anyway encourage downloading Apple software via file-sharing / torrent sites and run it in an virtualized environment under Windows. This guide is for informational purposes only. If you like OS X Snow Leopard, Get a Mac.
Step 1: Download and install VMware Workstation 7.
Step 2:Click here to download pre-made modified version of Snow Leopard.vmdk and darwin_snow.iso files required to get this thing to work.
Step 3: Start VMware Workstation and open up 'Mac OS X Server 10.6 (experimental).vmx' file which you downloaded in Step 2.
Step 4: Click on 'Edit virtual machine settings', select CD/DVD (IDE) option from left hand side and then and select 'Use ISO image file' option. Point it to 'darwin_snow.iso' which you downloaded in Step 2.
Step 5: Now power on the virtual machine and hit 'F8' key. You should now have a screen similar to the one shown below.
Step 6: Now you'll have to point your virtual machine to OS X Snow Leopard retail DVD instead of 'darwin_snow.iso'. To do this, right click on CD/DVD option found in lower right most corner of your VMware window and select settings.
Insert OS X Snow Leopard retail DVD in your DVD drive and select the 'Use physical drive' option.
Step 7: Now go back and select 'c' option (Boot DVD) from the prompt which you got in Step 5 to boot from the OS X retail DVD. OS X boot screen with Apple logo should now appear. If the boot screen doesn't appear for you, try booting it in verbose mode by pressing 'F8' key after selecting 'c' option, and then enter '-v' (without quotes). This will enable the system to boot OS X DVD using verbose mode.
Step 8: Wait for a couple of minutes for the Installation Setup screen to show up. From here on, simply follow the onscreen setup instructions to install OS X Snow Leopard. Make sure you format your virtual hard drive in 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' format using Disk Utility. Customize your installation with minimum set of printer drivers and language options for a lightweight trouble free installation experience.
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Step 9: Once the installation is completed. System will automatically reboot. At this point, close your guest virtual machine and change your CD/DVD option again like you did in Step 2 to point it to 'darwin_snow.iso'.
Step 10: Start the virtual machine again. Press 'F8' key and select 'h' option to 'Boot first hard disk'. Mac os on amd pc. Voila! Snow Leopard should now be running live under Windows 7!
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Hello Experts,
This is my first time am going to install MAC OS in my AMD Machine, here are my configuration details.
- AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core Processor
- ASUS ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
- Samsung SSD 970 EVO 1TB
- Corsair RAM 32GB
I referred youtube and other forums, not getting the exact details for the Installation. If anyone has the step by step procedure to install MAC OS, would be more helpful.
Note: I wanted to run 3 different environments,
1. Windows 10
2. MAC OS
3. Linux
Also, I need all should have the proper bootloader combined to select these OS. Already installed Windows 10 in my machine, further I need MAC OS and Linux OS have to install. Kindly requesting your guidance to procced further.
Regards,
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Kannan