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Guest OS Snow Leopard Host OS Sierra

Posted: 18. Jan 2019, 21:23
by Swiftly
Hello All i am a novice on virtual box to make a long story short I work for a school, We have a teacher wanting to run a game called spore from 2007 that runs on XP or leopard. Well flash forward we now have late 2015 Macbook Air's running sierra i installed spore and tried to run it on OS X mavericks game still would not run so now i am trying snow leopard i found a download VIA a website created the .iso and it boots to the setup but when i click install i receive a message saying Mac os can't be installed on this computer. Now i have done some google searching and have read that due to the hardware check is why i am receiving this error and seen some terminal commands to run to try and fool it but for some reason i can not get the terminal to open during setup phase any help would be greatly appreciated thanks! Advice or possible fixes to make this run!

Re: Guest OS Snow Leopard Host OS Sierra

Posted: 18. Jan 2019, 21:33
by socratis
Swiftly wrote:i am trying snow leopard i found a download VIA a website created the .iso and it boots to the setup
Unless the website in question is Apple (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MC57 ... ow-leopard), all bets are off. If you have the official 10.6 DVD we can continue this talk...

The reason? Most 3rd party websites involve not the real thing, but what's called a Hackintosh, a version hacked so that it can run on generic PCs, not Apple-made.

Re: Guest OS Snow Leopard Host OS Sierra

Posted: 18. Jan 2019, 21:38
by Swiftly
Okay Thanks! make's sense