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You may want to consider running Snow Leopard inside of VMWare , especially if you already have a decent machine to use for virtualization. I've been running 10

by barlo 16y ago

You may want to consider running Snow Leopard inside of VMWare , especially if you already have a decent machine to use for virtualization. I've been running 10.6.2 for several months in VMWare on a Windows 7 host with absolutely zero issues.

ableal 16y ago
I already have a Mac (cf. other reply), but wouldn't mind a sacrificial VM to try stupid things. However, I couldn't even get my Linux box to image one of the two original OSX 10.6.2 discs for backup to HD (shrugged it off, didn't insist - I'm not obsessed with copies of driver discs anymore ;-). Any pointers to good guides ? (Ubuntu, VirtualBox preferred. 8GB quad-core AMD PhenomII.)
- barlo 16y ago
  Check out this guide: http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/12/install-snow-leopard-in-vmware-7-windows-edition/ http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/12/install-snow-leopard-in-v... It's all pretty much straight forward, but I found it most stable when I: use the darwin_snow.iso provided as your boot device (it emulates the bootloader used by Macs), use all SCSI devices, and in the config file, set guestOS = "darwin10-64" The machine I'm running it on now is a i5 750 with 12 gb of mem; I have a single core and 2gb of mem dedicated to the VM. Feel free to email me if you need any help, I spent quite awhile playing with various methods of virtualizing Snow Leopard, so I can probably answer a majority of questions about issues that arise. edit: As far as VirtualBox, I'm not aware of anyone getting 10.6.2 to run stable in it. I believe 10.4 will run okay. You may want to just use VMWare player, though. Also, you will have issues with the AMD processor, Apple was 'thoughtful' enough to include code to ensure Mac OS will only run on Intel processors. There are several distributions of 10.5 that have been modified to run on AMD processors, but I haven't really played with them - I think google can assist there, though.
  - ableal 16y ago
    Thanks for the details and the offer of help - much appreciated. I probably won't be bothering you, this was a "would be nice" thing. I picked an AMD CPU partly because a sort-of-server box should have ECC RAM [1], which AMD does support 'for free' (and also toss in sufficient graphics in the chipset); it seems that with Intel CPUs one needs to go to very expensive MBs or the Xeon line for that. [1] D.J.Bernstein, for one, explains why: http://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html http://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html , http://cr.yp.to/hardware/build-20090123.html http://cr.yp.to/hardware/build-20090123.html P.S. Unfortunately, D.J.Bernstein refers to RAID-5 as "an easy-to-use automatic backup mechanism" (if a drive dies); he either didn't get the "RAID is not backup" memo, or does not believe it (until the day he accidentally wipes data ;-).
Psyonic 16y ago
With no issues? really? I have an i7 920 at home, 6GB ram, etc, and when I tried to run Snow Leopard in vmware, it just never felt quite right. It worked, sure, but not to the point I'd be happy using it everyday.
- barlo 16y ago
  Yep, I've used it as my sole development platform for 3 iPhone apps so far. I could never get 10.5 to run perfectly for me, but 10.6 seems to be issue free. (Well, the single issue I've had is Dropbox, for some reason it causes the kernel to crash, but I haven't bothered to look into it at all, yet.)
  - Psyonic 16y ago
    I'll have to take another stab at it. It'd be nice if I could get that working properly.

by barlo 16y ago

ableal 16y ago

I already have a Mac (cf. other reply), but wouldn't mind a sacrificial VM to try stupid things. However, I couldn't even get my Linux box to image one of the two original OSX 10.6.2 discs for backup to HD (shrugged it off, didn't insist - I'm not obsessed with copies of driver discs anymore ;-). Any pointers to good guides ? (Ubuntu, VirtualBox preferred. 8GB quad-core AMD PhenomII.)

barlo 16y ago
Check out this guide: http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/12/install-snow-leopard-in-vmware-7-windows-edition/ http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/12/install-snow-leopard-in-v... It's all pretty much straight forward, but I found it most stable when I: use the darwin_snow.iso provided as your boot device (it emulates the bootloader used by Macs), use all SCSI devices, and in the config file, set guestOS = "darwin10-64" The machine I'm running it on now is a i5 750 with 12 gb of mem; I have a single core and 2gb of mem dedicated to the VM. Feel free to email me if you need any help, I spent quite awhile playing with various methods of virtualizing Snow Leopard, so I can probably answer a majority of questions about issues that arise. edit: As far as VirtualBox, I'm not aware of anyone getting 10.6.2 to run stable in it. I believe 10.4 will run okay. You may want to just use VMWare player, though. Also, you will have issues with the AMD processor, Apple was 'thoughtful' enough to include code to ensure Mac OS will only run on Intel processors. There are several distributions of 10.5 that have been modified to run on AMD processors, but I haven't really played with them - I think google can assist there, though.
- ableal 16y ago
  Thanks for the details and the offer of help - much appreciated. I probably won't be bothering you, this was a "would be nice" thing. I picked an AMD CPU partly because a sort-of-server box should have ECC RAM [1], which AMD does support 'for free' (and also toss in sufficient graphics in the chipset); it seems that with Intel CPUs one needs to go to very expensive MBs or the Xeon line for that. [1] D.J.Bernstein, for one, explains why: http://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html http://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html , http://cr.yp.to/hardware/build-20090123.html http://cr.yp.to/hardware/build-20090123.html P.S. Unfortunately, D.J.Bernstein refers to RAID-5 as "an easy-to-use automatic backup mechanism" (if a drive dies); he either didn't get the "RAID is not backup" memo, or does not believe it (until the day he accidentally wipes data ;-).

Psyonic 16y ago

With no issues? really? I have an i7 920 at home, 6GB ram, etc, and when I tried to run Snow Leopard in vmware, it just never felt quite right. It worked, sure, but not to the point I'd be happy using it everyday.

barlo 16y ago
Yep, I've used it as my sole development platform for 3 iPhone apps so far. I could never get 10.5 to run perfectly for me, but 10.6 seems to be issue free. (Well, the single issue I've had is Dropbox, for some reason it causes the kernel to crash, but I haven't bothered to look into it at all, yet.)
- Psyonic 16y ago
  I'll have to take another stab at it. It'd be nice if I could get that working properly.