[Solved] Problems installing Snow Leopard (10.6) as a guest on High Sierra (10.13.6)
Posted: 22. Dec 2018, 00:40
I will try to heed the guidelines. This is my first post. Here goes:
I am attempting to create a VM running Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) using a late version of VirtualBox (5.2.22 r126460) on my MacbookPro 9,1 (2012) running Mac OS 10.13.6 (High Sierra). I have a piece of VERY IMPORTANT software I would like to run, namely "F/A-18 Hornet: Operation Iraqi Freedom", which is a 2005 PPC game requiring Rosetta.
During startup, the install disk hangs just after
giving the dreaded
which I guess means there's a problem with my install media? The 10.6 install image I have is identified by hdiutil imageinfo as:
I tried converting the DMG directly to ISO, but that hung at the same place at boot. I was reading on another forum about how picky AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement with regard to cpuid specifics, so I don't know if maybe the problem is there?
I've been stuck on this problem for a while now. Help me, @socratis, you're my only hope!
-John (Gravelpits)
I am attempting to create a VM running Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) using a late version of VirtualBox (5.2.22 r126460) on my MacbookPro 9,1 (2012) running Mac OS 10.13.6 (High Sierra). I have a piece of VERY IMPORTANT software I would like to run, namely "F/A-18 Hornet: Operation Iraqi Freedom", which is a 2005 PPC game requiring Rosetta.
During startup, the install disk hangs just after
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AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: initialization complete
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still waiting for root device
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Mac OS X 10.6 Install DVD.dmg
Checksum Type: CRC32
Checksum Value: $977CE522
I've been stuck on this problem for a while now. Help me, @socratis, you're my only hope!
-John (Gravelpits)