Geek Posted November 17, 2011 Posted November 17, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-vm-in-osx-lion.jpg.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Snow Leopard running in a virtual machine on top of OS X Lion" title="mac-os-x-snow-leopard-vm-in-osx-lion.jpg" width="620" height="349" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23888" /></p> <p>We showed you how to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/16/run-mac-os-x-lion-in-virtual-machine-on-snow-leopard/">run OS X Lion in a virtual machine</a> on top of Snow Leopard, but it seems everyone wanted to know the opposite of that: how to run Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard in a VM on top of Mac OS X Lion. Follow our instructions and you’ll be up and running in no time.</p> <p><strong>Requirements</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AMHWP8/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=B001AMHWP8">Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=oxd-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001AMHWP8&camp=217145&creative=399369" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> (ISO or DMG for MacBook Air users)</li> <li>VirtualBox (<a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads">free download</a>)</li> </ul> <p>This guide should also work in Parallels and VMWare, but I chose VirtualBox this time around because it’s always free and runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. We’re going to assume you have the Snow Leopard DVD or ISO/DMG handy already, and that you installed VirtualBox, if not get those figured out and proceed: <span id="more-23887"></span></p> <h2 style="font-size:1.3em;">Installing Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard in a Virtual Machine</h2> <p>This guide was done in OS X 10.7.2 Lion with the newest version of VirtualBox, it should work to install OS X in Windows too.</p> <ul> <li>Open VirtualBox and create a new Virtual Machine – make the virtual disk at least 15GB and allocate at least 1GB of RAM to the VM</li> <li>Choose “Mac OS X” and “Mac OS X Server” as the OS and OS Type</li> <li>Select the Snow Leopard DVD, DMG, or ISO as the primary boot drive</li> <li>Confirm the specs, boot disk of and choose “Create”</li> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/create-new-snowleopard-vm.jpg" alt="Create a new OS X virtual machine" title="create-new-snowleopard-vm" width="550" height="307" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23889" /></p> <li>Now boot the newly created VM by clicking on “Start” and let the Snow Leopard installer load, click through to the “Install Mac OS X” screen</li> <li>Pull down the “Utilities” menu and select “Disk Utility” – this next step is important because without it the virtual drive will not appear in the install menu</li> <li>Select the name of the virtual hard drive on the left side menu of Disk Utility (15GB VBOX HARDDRIVE or something similar) and then click on the “Erase” tab</li> <li>Choose “Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)” and name the hard drive something, then click on “Erase”</li> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/format-virtual-hard-disk.jpg" alt="Format the virtual hard disk to HFS" title="format-virtual-hard-disk" width="575" height="419" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23890" /></p> <li>Now quit out of Disk Utility to go back to the general Mac OS X Installer</li> <li>Select the hard drive name you just formatted and click on “Install”</li> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/installing-snow-leopard-in-vm.jpg" alt="Installing Snow Leopard in a Virtualbox" title="installing-snow-leopard-in-vm" width="575" height="385" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23891" /></p> <li>Let the installer run, this will take a while (30-45 minutes) and just ignore the “Time Remaining” estimate because it’s inaccurate – if it looks frozen or stuck, it’s not, the progress bar just jumps in huge chunks rather than gradual increases</li> <li>After the installation is done and you’re back at the VirtualBox Manager screen, click on on the gear icon for “Settings”</li> <li>In Settings, click on “Storage” and then look under “IDE Controller” to remove the Snow Leopard install DVD, ISO, or DMG – if you don’t do this, the VM will boot back into the installer rather than into Mac OS X 10.6</li> <li>Close out of Settings, select your VM, and click on “Start” to boot the virtual machine</li> </ul> <p>If you see a bunch of error messages with white text on a black screen, ignore all of that and let VirtualBox boot. Soon the familiar Mac OS X Snow Leopard setup screen will load to pick region settings and setup the virtual machine as any other new Mac. Enjoy!</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/mac-snow-leopard-virtual-machine-lion.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Snow Leopard in a VM on top of Lion" title="mac-snow-leopard-virtual-machine-lion" width="620" height="304" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23897" /></p> <p>If you’re having fun with this, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/virtual-machine/">check out our other posts on virtual machines</a>, including <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/15/how-to-install-run-windows-8-in-virtualbox/"> installing Windows 8 preview in VirtualBox</a>, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/04/internet-explorer-for-mac-ie7-ie8-ie-9-free/">Internet Explorer test VM’s for Mac OS X</a>, and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/virtual-machine/">more</a>.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RR6ZiIJVIDQuM15S6kkksI3paTo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RR6ZiIJVIDQuM15S6kkksI3paTo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RR6ZiIJVIDQuM15S6kkksI3paTo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RR6ZiIJVIDQuM15S6kkksI3paTo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=hwY9tybVLA8:TuIQ7OBFkTM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=hwY9tybVLA8:TuIQ7OBFkTM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=hwY9tybVLA8:TuIQ7OBFkTM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=hwY9tybVLA8:TuIQ7OBFkTM:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=hwY9tybVLA8:TuIQ7OBFkTM:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=hwY9tybVLA8:TuIQ7OBFkTM:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=hwY9tybVLA8:TuIQ7OBFkTM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/hwY9tybVLA8" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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