Highlight the drive that is now showing up and click Continue. Then click Disk Utility in your menu bar and quit it. Then click the Erase tab, name it what you want in the name box and click the Erase button on the bottom right of the window. Next, start up Disk Utility by going to Utilities in the menu bar.Īt this screen highlight 20GB VBOX HARDDISK.
If you are unable to move your mouse around then hit Right-Ctrl + I. All the services will run and eventually you should come to the language screen. Then at the boot: prompt type –v so you can see what exactly went wrong if something does go wrong. Then click OK, and hit the Start button on the left side of the main VirtualBox window.Īs it starts up, click inside the window and hit F8. Then highlight it and click Select at the bottom. Then find and add the OSX86 ISO you downloaded earlier. From there click on Empty under the OSX.vdi, then click the folder with the green arrow on the right (next to "CD/DVD Device").Īt this window click the Add button at the top. Now click on the Storage button on the left. At this window click on System in the left pane and uncheck Enable EFI. Click Finish, then click Settings at the top. Click next unless you want to change it from dynamic or if you want to increase the disk size or file location. Dynamic is better for not taking up your hard drive but static should give you better performance. Dynamic will expand on use and Static will be a fixed 20GB no matter how much data is actually in it. 20GB should be enough so what it comes down to is dynamic or static. This is where you'll make your hard disk. If you can spare it, crank it up as far as you can go, but 1024MB should be sufficient. The next window will let you choose your RAM amount: Open up Virtualbox and click on New at the top left.Īt the Create New Virtual Machine window, click Next.Īt this window type OSX as the name and it will automatically change the system and version.
Of course, if you feel bad about downloading the ISO of Snow Leopard, you could always go buy a copy to feel a bit better, karmically.Īfter you have them both, install Virtualbox. The group Hazard has put out a good patched Snow Leopard installer that should do fine (just search for it on Google). Apart from VirtualBox, you'll also need an OSX86 ISO.
We've shown you how to install Snow Leopard in VMWare, but if you haven't purchased VMWare, you can now do it using previously mentioned, free program VirtualBox. If you're on Windows, need to use OS X, but don't want to buy or build a new computer, reader Bobby Patton shows us how to run Snow Leopard in a virtual machine on Windows with just a few tweaks. How to Run Mac OS X in VirtualBox on Windows