Snow Leopard 10.6.4 with VMware pre-installed image.Ģ) Mount the appropriate iBoot loader ISO file to CD Drive through Virtual Media manager.ģ) Switch on the Virtual machine.
Install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on VirtualBox with empireEFI Boot loader. This is to avoid booting the virtual machine from VirtualBox’s built-in EFI loader.Īllocate video memory to the maximum and select 3D acceleration under Display option. Remove EFI boot loader option under System. Based on the version of VirtualBox, these options may vary. I allocated 1.5GB RAM and 20 GB new hard disk (Attach it to SATA type).Įnable VT, Nesting Paging and PAE under processor settings. Follow the steps to use iBoot loader on VirtualBox.ġ) Create a new virtual machine in VirtualBox. This boot loader will work with Intel processors only, it may fail for AMD users. Yeah, it was pretty old, because it was done in the year 2010.
I’m installing and demonstrating these steps on my Intel Core2duo 2.66GHZ, 3GB RAM Windows 7 32 Bit computer. If you want to try the latest versions of macOS, then you need to look for a different type of boot loaders from tonymacx86 site here.ģ) I hope you will have the Snow Leopard DVD or ISO file (If you have the physical DVD, better convert it to ISO file)Ĥ) Make sure that the Virtualization Technology (VT) enabled on physical computer BIOS, you can read the steps here. NOTE: iBoot work for 10.6 Snow Leopard only. In this example, I use the NVIDIA version. If that doesn’t work then use ‘supported’ version. Use the correct ATI or NVIDIA version depending on your physical computer display card. Required ProductsĢ) iBoot boot loader ( It is available here)ĭownload all three versions. This particular bootloader developed by tonymac86 project.
And by now your PC is fully operational and you got to go with new operating system.This boot loader is looking pretty good and I’m hoping this will work with most of the 32 bit and 64 bit Intel processors, I’m not sure about AMD processor. Learn about iBoot Download in a complete review.
If you are interested in turning your PC into Mackintosh and did not have any idea about from where to start, this is hopefully a great place to get everything into education.
We could expect more tool updates ahead making your attempts to install Mac OSX on PCs better and stable.