How to install a Snow Leopard Hackintosh in Virtualbox. Weve already covered how to run a Mac OS X virtual machine with VMWare Fusion on your Hackintosh, but that tutorial wont do you much good if you havent installed Mac OS X on your PC yet. If you need help deciding whether to make that leap of faith, then you can try installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on Virtualbox, instead. Virtualbox is a virtualization suite that works for Windows installing Mac OS X on a virtual machine in Windows before doing it on your actual computer is great practice, and it gives you a chance to determine whether youd actually prefer OS X over Windows. Installing OS X on a normal desktop computer has been exclusive to Intelbased systems for a long time. Since the release of the first AMD kernel for Mac OS X. Read past the break for a full tutorial. NOTE The following guide is for installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard only, because it uses the same method that I use for my standard Snow Leopard installation guide. For this virtual machine, were going to use Virtualbox, which is a free and open source virtualization suite. Installing OS X with Virtualbox on Windows is more difficult than doing it with VMWare Fusion in OS X, because Windows virtualization programs do not officially support Mac OS X. You will not be able to enable full graphics support, for instance. This tutorial should only be taken as a proof of concept. Computer Requirements. You need a computer with Windows to run Mac OSX on Windows of course. You will need at least 4 GB of RAM and a dual core two core processor or better. Personally, the computer I was using for this had a 4 core processor and 1. GB RAM, which is way more than enough. You also need about 1. GB of unused hard drive space. Right click on My Computer on your desktop and click Properties to check the stats on your computer. If it doesnt directly tell you how many cores your processor has, look up your processor model on Wikipedia or Google. You also to note remember whether your processor is Intel or AMD. This guide does not cover AMD processors, as they make Mac OS X more difficult to set up. General Requirements. Now, your machine is ready to boot for the first time. Make sure you have your Mountain Lion ISO ready to go and proceed to the next step. Step Two Install OS X in. Here in this topic, we are able to download Mac OS X 10. Snow Leopard DVD. ISO, Mac OS X 10. Snow Leopard. DMG, and Snow Leopard. Torrent without Apple Stor. In addition to a good computer that uses an Intel processor, you need these following three things to run Mac OS X on Windows. Virtualbox This virtualization suite is free unlike VMWare, and though it doesnt offer official support for Mac OS X, it works well enough. Boot and Multibeast You need tonymacx. CD to boot the Mac OS X installer, and Multibeast to enable Virtualbox to boot OS X without i. Boot later on. Technically, any boot CD for Mac OS X will work, and you dont need Multibeast to install Chameleon the main componen of Easybeast, but well use tonymacx. As usual, you have to register on tonymacx. Mac OS X Snow Leopard installation DVD 2. The method used by this guide requires the retail DVD for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Step 1 Prep. Download Virtualbox, install it, and open it up. Also, if you want to be able to view USB devices from your Mac OS X Snow Leopard virtual machine, download the Virtualbox Extension Pack and run it before going to Step 2. Os X 10.6 Snow Leopard Iso' title='Os X 10.6 Snow Leopard Iso' />You also need to download the. Boot. Step 2 Create a new virtual machine. Virtualbox lets you run Mac OSX within Windows by creating a virtual machine, which is a program that simulates a normal computer. To create a virtual machine, open up Virtualbox and click New on the upper left. Give your new virtual machine a name, and choose Mac OS X for the OS Type. Safari_TopSites.png&h=SNoqlx1Zfrs6GzmZ9m4qQg' alt='Os X 10.6 Snow Leopard Iso' title='Os X 10.6 Snow Leopard Iso' />I recommend assigning at least 2 GB of RAM to the virtual machine, but you can assign as little as 1. MB of RAM. Every time you turn on Mac OS X, that RAM that you assign here will be used to run the virtual machine. The RAM will be given back to your normal computer after you turn Virtualbox off. Youll need to create a new hard disk for the virtual machine. Virtualbox will ask you what type of disk you want to create VDI, VDMK, or VHD. VDI is the original format for Virtualbox, while VDMK is the format used by VMWare. If youre considering getting a copy of VMWare, you might want to choose VDMK. Otherwise, just choose VDI. I recommend creating a dynamically expanding disk the only other option, fixed size storage, will eat up your hard drive. Step 3 Give your new virtual machine an operating system. Your virtual machine will now be created. But dont stop now you still need to change a few settings before your machine will actually work. Your new virtual machine will show up on the left column of the Virtualbox start page. Select your Mac OS X virtual machine single click from the main page of Virtualbox, and open up the virtual machine settings. Once the settings open up, go to System and uncheck the Enable EFI box. This is by far the most important single setting that you will need to change. EFI, which stands for Extended Firmware Interface, is a feature that helps operating systems start up. Unfortunately, Mac OSX requires speshul EFI, so the EFI that Virtualbox uses doesnt work. In addition, make sure that Enable IO APIC is checked. Then, click on the Acceleration tab and check both of the options there. Im not sure whether these options actually matter EFI is definitely the most important variable, but its better safe than sorry. Once youre done with that, go to the settings for Storage. In the storage tree box, youll see a CD icon labeled Empty. Click on it and click Choose a virtual CDDVD disk file. In the window that pops up, choose the. Boot. Step 4 Start it up Start up your virtual machine. You should come up to a screen with the tonymacx. Ryuichi Sakamoto Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence Pdf there. Insert your retail Snow Leopard DVD into your computers DVD drive. On the bottom right of the Virtualbox window, there will be a small CD icon. This is your virtual CD drive. Right click on the CD icon, and switch the virtual drive from your copy of i. Boot to your actual DVD drive with the Snow Leopard DVD in it. Then press F5 to refresh the i. Boot menu, so that it can detect the new installation disk. Once i. Boot detects the disk, press the enterreturn key on your keyboard to start up the OS X installation. The installation screen will come up in a few minutes. You will eventually come up to a page that asks you for a destination for your Mac install. Oh no, the page is blank Well have to fix that. To do this, start up Disk Utility located under the Utilities menu in the top bar. You need to use Disk Utility to erase your hard drive so that OS X can install itself on it. Partition the drive if you want OS X cannot boot from a partition thats larger than 1 TB in size, so keep that in mind when partitioning. Then erase the drivepartition that you intend to install OS X on. On the installation page for Mac OSX, the hard diskdisk partition should now be showing up. Select it and continue to the Install Summary page. Click the Customize button on the bottom left of the Install Summary screen, and uncheck additional options to speed up the process. Install OS X. The process takes me 2. Once done, the computer will reboot. Right click on the small CD icon in the bottom right of the Virtualbox window again, and switch back to i. Boot. The i. Boot menu with the tonymacx. Choose your new Snow Leopard installation from the i. Boot menu, and press Enter to boot it up. Step 5 Install Easybeast with Multibeast. By default, your ethernet internet and sound should work in your Snow Leopard virtual machine. Open Safari and download Multibeast Snow Leopard edition. Open Multibeast, and install Easybeast. You can now boot your virtual machine without having to switch your virtual CD drive to i. Boot every time. Step 6 Make the screen bigger. How to Run Mac OS X Inside Windows Using Virtual. Box. Even if youre a Windows fan, youve probably thought about trying OS X. Maybe youd like to test drive OS X before switching to a Mac or building a Hackintosh, or maybe you just want to run that one killer OS X app on your Windows machine. Whatever your reason, you can actually install and run OS X on any Intel based Windows PC with a program called Virtual. Box. Heres how. Building a hackintoshthat is, installing mac. OS on non Apple hardwareused to require extremelyRead more Read. Running OS X on your Windows desktop will take a bit of work, but its pretty easy to do and the final product is awesome. To see what the whole setup will look like when youre done, check out the video above. Then, head to the instructions below to set it up for yourself. Thanks to Mac. Breaker for figuring out a lot of the original instructions Update These instructions are now outdated. We now recommend following these instructions over at Mac. Breaker for the newer, more popular i. Atkos distribution of OS X instead. What Youll Need. Before you start the installation process, youll want to gather the following A PC running 6. Windows with at least a dual core processor and 4. GB of RAM. Mountain Lion is 6. Windows to be 6. 4 bit. If youre on a 3. Windows, you can install Snow Leopard instead. For more info, check out the difference between 3. Note that your processor also needs to support VT x. This list should help you find out whether yours does. Virtual. Box and the Virtual. Box Extension Pack Virtual. Box is our favorite virtualization tool for Windows, and its completely free. Virtual. Box doesnt officially support OS X, but its actually very easy to get up and running. You should download the main program and the Extension Pack, which will give you support for USB devices. A hacked Mountain Lion disc image. Sadly, this wont work with a vanilla Mountain Lion installer, so youll have to find a compatible hacked version. The hacking group Olarila has put a great installation ISO together, and you can find it by searching Google. If that doesnt sit well with you, you can head over to the Mac App Store and buy a legit copy for yourself, so you can at least pirate with a clear conscience. The Hack. Boot 1 and Hack. Boot 2 ISO files. These will help you boot into the installation. Multi. Beast 4, which will help you get audio and other things working correctly after installation. Youll need to register for a free account over at Tonymacx. Make sure to download Multi. Beast 4its labeled Lion, but for our purposes the Lion version works better than the Mountain Lion version. Windows users have a few choices when it comes to virtualizing another OS, but our personalRead more Read. Step One Install and Set Up Virtual. Box. Before we install OS X, well need to set up Virtual. Box so the OS X install disc can boot correctly. Heres what you need to do Start up Virtual. Box and click the New button. Give your new virtual machine a name I just called it Mac OS X and set the operating system to Mac OS X Server 6. Click Next and choose how much RAM to give your virtual machine. This depends on how much RAM is in your systemyou can get away with 2. GB, but if you have more, give it more. GB of RAM should be a good amount, though I gave mine 6. GB since I had RAM to spare. Click Next again, and choose Create New Disk. Create your new disk in VDI format and with dynamically allocated storage. When youre done, Virtual. Box should take you back to the main screen. From here, right click on your OS X machine in the left sidebar and click Settings. Go to the System section and uncheck Enable EFI. Click on the Storage section of the settings and click on the CD icon that says Empty under Storage Type. Then, click the CD icon next to the CDDVD Drive dropdown, and select Choose a Virtual CDDVD Disk File. Choose the Hack. Boot 1 ISO and click OK. Now, your machine is ready to boot for the first time. Make sure you have your Mountain Lion ISO ready to go and proceed to the next step. Step Two Install OS X in Virtual. Box. The next step involves actually installing OS X to your new virtual machine. When youre ready, start up Virtual. Box and follow these instructions Select your OS X machine in Virtual. Boxs left sidebar and click the Start button in the toolbar. Itll bring you to the Hack. Boot boot screen, with one icon in the middle labeled Hack. Boot. Click on the CD icon at the bottom of the Virtual. Box window and select Choose a Virtual CDDVD Disk File. This time, choose your hacked Mountain Lion ISO. Go back to the Hack. Boot boot screen and press F5. It should reload the boot menu, this time showing you an OS X Install DVD. Select this option and press Enter. After a moment, itll take you to the OS X Installation screen. After you choose your language and agree to the terms and conditions, youll see that OS X doesnt detect any valid hard drives. To fix this problem, head up to the menu bar and go to Utilities Disk Utility. Click on your Virtual. Box hard drive in the left sidebar, then click the Erase tab in Disk Utilitys main pane. Give your drive a name like Macintosh HD and click Erase. Once Disk Utility has finished formatting your drive, you should see it show up in the left sidebar. When you do, exit Disk Utility and continue with the OS X installation as normal. The rest of the installation should be pretty self explanatory, and should go off without a hitch. It took me about 2. OS X. When it finishes, itll take you to a black screen with white text. At this point, you can click the X in the upper right corner of the window to power off the virtual machine. Step Three Smooth Out the Rough Edges. Youre almost there Youve installed OS X, but youll still need to tweak a few things to get audio and graphics working properly. Heres what you need to do. Fix Audio with Multi. Beast. Open up Virtual. Box and right click on your OS X virtual machine in the left sidebar. Head back to its Settings and go to the Storage section. Once again, click on the disc icon on the right side of the window, this time choosing the Hack. Boot 2 ISO. Click the Start button to reboot your virtual machine. You should see the Hack. Boot menu again, this time with an option to boot into your new virtual machine. Select that option and press Enter. After a minute, you should see the Mountain Lion desktop with the familiar galaxy wallpaper. Open up Safari, head to Tonymacx. Multi. Beast as described in the What Youll Need section. Open up System Preferences Security. Click the lock in the bottom left hand corner, enter your password, and set the Allow Applications preference to Anywhere. This will let you run apps from untrusted developers, which includes Multibeast. Launch Multibeast. When you get to the Installation Type section, Choose the options pictured below Click continue and finish the Multibeast installation. It may take a few minutes. Your audio wont work just yet, but we have a few other things we need to do before we restart. Boot OS X Without Hack. Boot. In order to boot OS X without the Hack. Boot CD, well need to delete a problematic kext. You can do this through the following steps Open up the Finder and select Go Go to Folder from the menu bar. Type in SystemLibraryExtensions and press Enter. In this folder, find the Apple. Graphics. Control. This will allow your virtual machine to boot up without the Hack.