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Help running Mac OS X 10.6.X on virtual box
« on: June 28, 2011, 08:37:49 AM »
hey every mac image i've been using keeps freezing during the boot before the setup process appears. its either frozen at a certain point in the verbose boot to setup and on another image its stuck on the apple logo and pin wheel before setup what is the problem???

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Re: Help running Mac OS X 10.6.X on virtual box
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2011, 11:07:25 AM »
Which MAC images?  How do you load them?
Did they used to work on Vista?

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Re: Help running Mac OS X 10.6.X on virtual box
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2011, 11:28:05 AM »
just as the VM is starting, press F8. It should give you a boot: prompt. type "-v " here (without the quotes) should put the boot process into verbose mode, so you can  get a bit more info on what goes wrong when it starts.
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Re: Help running Mac OS X 10.6.X on virtual box
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2011, 05:34:39 PM »
here is a screen shot of where it freezes in verbose, in reg boot it just shows the apple logo and the spinning pinwheel
this is the image i used
Snow_Leopard_10.6.1-10.6.2_SSE2_SSE3_Intel_AMD_by_Hazard.ISO


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Re: Help running Mac OS X 10.6.X on virtual box
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2011, 06:19:09 AM »
Torrents... (whole different story; slippery ground)
I used a similar OS X 10.6.4 image a while ago, but it only worked in VMWare Workstation 7.1.4. I see you are trying to boot with VirtualBox in "Mac OS X Server mode." trying to boot snow leopard fails because of the kernel drivers that are required. You may have read about kexts, which are similar to "Drivers" in windows.
Hint: Mac OS X 10.6.8 now works in VMWare. I can't provide you with any further information, though, due to forum rules.
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Re: Help running Mac OS X 10.6.X on virtual box
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2011, 08:04:31 AM »
Well could you email me the information? because my license an VMWare ran out
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