How to Create a Bootable USB Drive With OS X Snow Leopard. Drag-and-drop the Mac OS X Install. I've shown you how to create a bootable OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. This post shows how to install Mac OS X 10.6.5 Snow leopard on. 6.5 Snow Leopard on VirtualBox–Several Issues. Snow Leopard retail Mac DVD or ISO and. Mac OS X Snow Leopard Free Download DMG 10.6.3 Clean Rip. It is final bootable OS X Snow Leopard Install DVD 10.6.3 DMG for Clean OS X Reinstall.

Time to write another post on hackintosh series after Apple released 10.6.5 update. Several issues fixed in this version and Apple recommends all users to update. Normally when you use hackintosh versions, these type of updates will give kernel panic and you have to wait for new hacked kernel from the developer. But, with vanilla original kernel installation, it can be updated. This post shows how to install Mac OS X 10.6.5 Snow leopard on VirtualBox with several issues fixed. Because of it goes with ( Vanilla kernel), combo update 10.6.5 works without any issues. Issues Fixed in this method which did not work in.

1) Third party boot loaders not required. This goes with VirtualBox built in EFI boot loader. 2) Shut down and restart of virtual machine works. 3) ‘About this Mac’ information works.

4) Screen resolution can be set to 5 options. Mac OS X 10.6. Rbc Employee Login My Information Updater Service. 5 Snow leopard on VirtualBox – Installation Steps 1) Make sure Hardware Virtualization Technology (VT) is turned-on in host computer, 2) or ISO and Oracle VirtualBox. Create ISO from DVD. 3) Create new virtual machine with OS type ‘ Mac OS X Server’. Set minimum memory size to 1GB and increase the video memory under display.

4) Now close the VirtualBox completely. Go to the virtual machine’s location (in Windows OS, Userprofile –>.VirtualBox –>Machines ) and open XML file in WordPad or XML editor. Add the following code When you copy below text, make sure opening and closing quotes are correct. 5) Mount the installation ISO to CD ROM of Mac Virtual machine. Make sure CD ROM is set as first bootable device.

I suggest to open the XML file again and make sure added string is there. Power on the virtual machine. 6) I’m sure installation will start normally. 7) If you can’t see the disk to install, go to disk utilities as shown below. Create a partition and close the utility. Now you must see the created partition to select and continue the installation.

8.) You can go to customize and remove extra languages and printer support packages to save time and space. Restart the virtual machine after the completion. As I said earlier restart of Mac guest will work fine under VirtualBox in this method. After initial user and keyboard settings, you should be able to land on Snow Leopard desktop successfully.

Post Installation Setups and Configurations. 1) Network and USB support Worked out of the box. 2) Sound Install the driver. Its not very clear but it makes some sound. 3) Screen Resolution VirtualBox EFI boot loader can pass following five screen resolution modes to virtual machine. 0 – 640×480 1 – 800×600 2 – 1024×768 3 – 1280×1024 4 – 1440×900 Shutdown the VM and close VirtualBox completely.

Open VM’s XML file and add following string, change the value to corresponding screen resolution option. When you copy below text, make sure opening and closing quotes are correct. If this doesn’t work, 4) Snow Leopard 10.6.5 Update It works without any issues because of original vanilla kernel. I did manual update.

Download the 10.6.5 combo update from and install it. Take a Snapshot before do this. About this Mac not crashing this time because of added extra string.

Here is the updated Snow leopard 10.6.5 on Oracle VirtualBox. 5) Shutdown and restart of OS X Virtual machine. Its not a problem here. How To Install Xclock In Centos 6 here. Shutting down and restarting from Mac OS X guest is working with VirtualBox. 6) Shared Folders between Windows or other Hosts. Once network is established between both machines it can be done easily as I demonstrated above steps on my Intel Core 2duo 2.66GHz, 3GB RAM, Windows 7 32Bit with VT enabled in BIOS. I’m sure this will work on 64Bit computers also.

If this doesn’t work on latest Intel I series processors, then you must check For AMD users, I’m not sure how this will work with VirtualBox. If it works, please share your success story with your computer configuration. Feel free to share and leave your comments and issues on this method. I will try my best to help you.

To those having trouble saving the XML data (being deleted after starting the vbox) which is causing the grey screen with the spinning color wheel you have to use “vboxmanage” to add the extradata into your *.vbox-prev XML file. Vboxmanage is the command line utility that allows you to edit the XML *.vbox-prex file. You cann “vboxmanage” with the option “setextradata” and tell it which vbox to edit, the “name” to add, and the “value” to associate with the new key. Let’s say your new Mac PSX vbox is just named “OSX”, you would issue the following command verbatim and on one line: vboxmanage setextradata “OSX” “VBoxInternal2/SmcDeviceKey” “ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc” It will not return an “success” but rather return you to your terminal prompt. Start up the OSX vbox and it should dump you right into the OSX install. If not, open the *.vbox-prev file in your editor and make sure the key was added properly.